Music, software, nature, and spirituality.
Hey music community friends. I am writing because I need your help. As you may have seen in my online bios, I use they/them pronouns. I’ve been using them exclusively with my non-music community queer friends and allies since 2020 or so and at my LGBTQ-friendly job
I’ve been on my main bass, a 40s Kay, for about 8 or 9 years now. I love the amplified pizz sound that I get out of it. I love that it was made just a few years after my dad was born, and I dig the aging
If you are running a small music festival, why do you even need a stage manager? The bands know what time they are supposed to start playing. You can trust them to arrive and load-in their gear on time, and then be sound-checked and ready to play when they are
If you run any kind of business or organization you need a pronoun policy. Your trans and nonbinary customers, patients, clients, and members already carry a major burden just trying to move through the world. If they are lucky to find a business that has a pronoun policy, they will
I volunteered to share my reaction to Day is Born, the upcoming album by the band Høly River. They are in the process of collecting early reactions from friends to use for online promotion. Since this promotion will happen through social media, I feel pressure to try to
I underwent lumbar fusion surgery because my life-long chronic back pain reached a level that I could no longer gig. I could no longer think clearly and move easefully. The fusion itself appears to have been a success, but an unexpected inflammation around my low-back nerve roots has made it
On October 18th, Meta disabled my Facebook account without warning. This is what you will see if you try to navigate to my Facebook page : None of the links in the help center gave me a clue about how I can go about recovering my account. Searching online revealed that
Since all non-essential surgeries were cancelled, my employer’s sales figures were heavily impacted. As a result, they had to lay-off a few dozen employees. Being a contractor, I feared that I would be let go...
As my time in Utah was coming to an end and I began to grapple with the stresses and strains that were coming to a head in my life, I started noticing the growth of a conviction that I had to be bolder and more direct in the way the
I took a chance with the NS Design WAV after seeing many pro players use NS Design basses over the years.
I collaborated with folks with deep experience, a high level of skill, strong commitment to code quality, and motivation for continuous learning. Paradoxically, I was more stressed than ever before.
The following are some books that I recommended to a member of the Shambhala Gainesville Meditation Community's Queer and Trans Dharma group back in late 2019 and early 2020.
I was finding myself waking up before my alarm clock every day, feeling sharp pains in my chest, experiencing tunnel vision and muscle weakness, etc. At one point my chest pain was so intense that my supervisor actually drove me to the hospital. I had experienced my first panic attack.
I was grateful to have a job. Unfortunately, I immediately knew that I didn’t want to work there long-term and actually started applying to other jobs the second week I was there.
To get excited to prep for a performance like this, I need more than an abstract idea or concept to build from – I need to connect the music to something deeply-felt. It wasn't hard to figure out what that should be.