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ON DRAWING
I like to draw pictures. But, being left-handed, stuck in these damn right-handed desks at school, I have a hard time making drawings that aren’t all lopsided and weird. The other kids, being kids, tease me about the bizarre scrawls on my paper. So at the bitter age of ten, I’ve figured out how Continue Reading→
Music And Food
MUSIC AND FOOD Many musicians are great cooks. Writers make beautiful paintings. Photographers play music. Past all the particulars and the moving parts, It’s really about seeking the connection between raw, disparate ideas, And the audacity to try to make something Knowing you might fail. Continue Reading→
John Prine
When I was seventeen years old, standing alone in the Texas Opry House in Houston, TX, drinking a beer off my brother's ID (long story), listening to John Prine, I never dreamed that some 35 years later I would be standing in the St. Louis airport talking with him while we waited for our luggage. I Continue Reading→
The Dream Curtain of Song
It’s a weekday morning, I’m 16, maybe 17 years old, listening to the radio, getting dressed for school. The radio is on, of course. Music is the constant of my world. KLOL, FM 101, the only station worth tuning into in Houston, TX in the late 70’s. Dylan’s 'Simple Twist Of Fate' comes on. I stop, Continue Reading→