“I hide in plain sight. Same as you.” —Gustavo Fring
I’m not a superstitious person by nature, but I was raised in the south where even educated folks recognize the power of signs and omens. Charlie’s gift of a…
Health Recommit to OMAD, black coffee, and portion control. Plant new salad vegetables in the garden. Walk every day before the evening meal. Curtail alcohol consumption. Prioritize memory work.
Music Perform mostly songs from the new album. Expand…
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts. —William Shakespeare
“One day, you’ll make peace with your demons, and the chaos in your heart will settle flat. And maybe for the first time in your life, life will smile right back at you and welcome you home.” —Robert M. Drake
As a rule, professional bandleaders operate with neither job security nor a financial safety net. We work gig to gig, operating on the slimmest of margins, without salary or benefits. We aren’t eligible for unemployment and many of us cannot…
Damien Chazelle’s 2014 film Whiplash follows the fraught relationship between a brutally masochistic music teacher, Fletcher (J.K Simmons), and his ambitious student, drummer Andrew (Miles Teller).
According to Slate critic J. Bryan Lowder, “Fletcher and Andrew are both obsessed…
During our meeting, I promise to give you my full attention, and to refrain from taking calls, texting or fiddling with my phone. I expect the same courtesy.
"Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming,
not being set but being flexible. It is being wholly and quietly alive,
aware and alert, ready for whatever may come."