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Now that the featival is finally over, I finally have a second to process everything that’s happened in the past three days. So much information, so few words. If there is a way to describe the experience

I haven’t had time to catch a breath. It’s just been performance after performance, rock, modern folk, traditional, running into friend after friend, followed by battles with taxi companies to come pick

Dinner tonight was a B- and I was still enthralled by it. I realized something in that moment, a cultural difference between most of Asia and most of the West that I had neen trying to fully conceptualize

8 Lines. That's all I managed to write in 4 hours....and yet it feels like a job well done. Lyrics are different from any other form of writing. Of course you can take them casually and just write whatever

If you asked me 3 days ago when I'd be putting out a full length albulm... I might tell you that I'm not sure if I ever would, definitely not for at least a year. I’ve been thinking about smaller releases

I+Everything 2.0. I’m finally approaching the sounds I’ve been pursuing all these years. I finally feel free to play with the moment and let the music decide for itself where it wants to go. The show was

“I can’t remember anything beyond these four walls. So many colors I’ve never seen. Sometimes I smell a story from a tiny crack in the wall. I can sense all the stories outside. Even though it’s just a

Today I woke up to some news that on the surface could be devastating to our future plans. Japanese politicians are looking to tighten the restrictions on business visas in Japan, basically locking us

I’ll never forget my first full time job interview. It was for a teaching job at a popular cram school chain. I was so stressed out about what to say, about proving to them that I really wanted to do a

I’ve stated this before recently but fame is becoming less and less of a thing and the sooner we realize that the easier it is to find new measurements of success that work for any of us who are sharing

I started writing some random threads about food and though maybe I should write a post about it. First of all the best thing about food in Japan is that the minimum standard is way higher than anywhere

I should let my words sting. I shouldn’t hold back I should say what I’m feeling and fear fewer consequences. There are some people who I like but they don’t understand me as well as they think they do,

Live Show : Success! Preparation : B+ Setup : A Turnout : A- Songs: B- Jams A+ Energy: A- Organization C+ Location: A Concept: A+ Overall: A/A- It's funny to give my show a grade like this but I think

”She sits on a hilltop, staring off at the snowy peaks of a place that might as well have be anywhere to her. The way the sun shimmers on the land’s white coating may be the closest thing she’s ever had

(The image is for a poster my friend drew for a show I had in 2009 or 2010, back when I just started playing music) It's been a few months since I've pledged myself to my art. It must have been in March.

Don’t you love it when you contradict yourself a few days after you make a strong statement about something. My last post was about how I didn’t have the same desire to share my personal experience and

When I started blogging, I wanted to explore myself more, namely my feelings and my my creativity. Not all posts are entirely self indulgent, but a majority are, and I like it that way. I find myself most

I’ve always had a bone to pick with pop culture. In general I just don’t like it. I find most pop songs way too simplistic and without any real depth. There is character but it’s all superficial. Hollywood

I stopped thinking of myself as a musician or a guitarist or a songwriter and started thinking of myself as an artist, a few years ago. Of course all of these words are open to interpretation and no word

Drained down to the last drop. I slept exacly an hour last night and then I had students tfrom 9 am to 4:30. Thank god my 5 and 7 pm cancelled. But then I met with a friend to show him my favorite area