Every year, if you’re like me, you’ll be scrambling for something really awesome and meaningful to do for your mom. I suck at coming up with stuff but I did some brainstorming and have come up with 10 helpful / useless ideas for you to use / discard. 1. Get some overpriced flowers. They [...]
I’ve never been so torn with such polar feelings of anger and pity… you can decide what got the best of me but it all started when a bum stole 4 bags of cans from my elderly neighbour. So, yesterday, I was in the kitchen and I hear this “smash” on the road. An unkempt [...]
I don’t even have an “Upcoming Gigs” section on this site because the ol’ git box doesn’t get dusted off very often… but this is a gig worthy of posting about. Now, I’m constantly getting asked to play benefit shows & there are all kinds of good causes worthy of showing up to play a [...]
Every Good Friday, I think of an old story my dad told me about. I remember as a little kid listening to the stereo with the voice of who I now realize was Tony Campolo as he ranted on about a preach-off. It was a preaching “competition” with the head pastor at a black church in Philadelphia & [...]
Whoever quoted the phrase “history repeats itself” might not be such an idiot after all. When I was 12, my pops and I built a half-pipe in our background and now, if my son can scrounge up the $450, he will be able to say the same thing. We had a little fun today snapping [...]
I wrote this originally for TribeHouse here. I hate to admit it, but last night I watched Oprah’s interview with Lady Gaga. (DISCLAIMER – it was only with half of my brain because the other half was busy building a website (does it still count?). I actually thought it was really interesting to find out some [...]
Seriously? A Twitter frenzy? Over the new iPad3? This stuff just makes me anxious. To clarify, I own a Mac. I own an iMac. I own an iPad 2. I own an iPhone 4. I own an Apple TV 2 just like hundreds of thousands of other people but how is it possible to keep [...]
After many, many conversations with my daughter about getting a dog, here is my conclusion summed up in one of those motivationally realistic posters that have been gaining popularity recently. PS – her name is Maya. PPS – in case my daughter reads this, please know that I actually love this new addition to our [...]
I’ve always been fascinated with shoes. Well, that’s a lie, maybe it’s just been over the past 10 years or so. But my favourite brand of shoe is Fluevog. I now have about 5 pairs of this blessed brand which has markings on the sole like “resists satan” and John Fluevog has created an entire [...]
So, I just learned that according to Google, there is a scientific way to find out which Youtube video is actually the funniest. Seriously. They’ve developed some algorithm and set up this cool little voting system called Youtube Comedy Slam where you can vote on which video you like better, earn points, bla bla bla. Google [...]
I originally posted this on the TribeHouse Collective site (if you care), but I was so stoked to see that at least 1.5 minutes of last night’s Grammys didn’t suck. Not often do you hear the raw truth being told about the music industry from a rock star like Dave Grohl from Foo Fighters, but his acceptance speech [...]
“A day without hope is the worst day of a man’s life” – Lance Barkman Share
Craig Cardiff came over for a Dutch pancake breakfast this morning after playing an intimate show at the Streaming Cafe last night. After touring relentlessly for several years, recording a discography of 20 albums, playing well-known venues across North America, having gone through the whole mainstream management thing (Feldman), he now tours alone & manages himself. [...]
Every once in 23 years or so I’ll come up with a great idea. This is the latest one that I’ve been working on for the past 6 months or so called Collabatube. As with most ideas that I think are life-changing, they end up being exciting concepts that take either way too much money, [...]
I’ve been told that I am a sketchy parent because of the advice I give to my kids. I love my son. Does this video contradict that? You decide. Share
3 years after my dad died of cancer, I had an incredibly life-like dream where I not only saw my dad, but encountered him in a way that changed my life. This song is a response to that encounter and dedicated to my dad, my best friend, and encourager until his last breath: Henk Boesten [...]
I didn’t think it was humanly possible, but there is such thing as an accidental beer bottle solo. You have to drink JUST enough to where the tone matches the track. This happened in the studio the other night as I was laying down some more tracks to the tune What Matters with Ari Neufeld [...]
My wife just smashed my iPhone because it woke her up early this morning and wouldn’t turn off. OK, the long(er) story is that my screen was totally cacked (AKA hooped, jarred, not-working). I tried fixing it so it was either: Peacefully throw it in the garbage Film her taking out her hammer aggression on [...]
Though I didn’t know him personally, Steve has affected how I think & create. Because of his innovation there are tools out there now that make my life simpler. Because he had the balls to do something different. Out of the box. I admire this type of thinking because risk is a characteristic that not [...]
After 7 years and a kick in the ass from the book “The War of Art“, I’ve decided that I need to throw the latest tune I wrote onto some tape (or harddrives). This book, along with some prodding from some of my friends, has been challenging me to get into the discipline of doing [...]