From Dylan's autobiography on page 78. What I was going to do as soon as I left home was just call myself Robert Allen. As far as I was concerned, that was who I was -- that's what my parents named me. It sounded like the name of a Scottish king and I liked it. … Continue reading How Robert Zimmerman Became Bob Dylan →

In this new year of 2020 I’m going to focus on creating and conserving energy. I've always felt low-energy since I started working full-time, around 2010. And it's impacted all areas of my life. I'm hoping that if I try to maintain good energy I'll be better in all areas of life. I’m going to … Continue reading The Word for 2020 is Energy →

"Critics tend to take Beck’s darker, singer-songwriter records more seriously, but he has found that capturing true joy is often more difficult...It’s like how people talk about comedy being harder to pull off than drama,” he told me. “How do you make something levitate?” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/02/beck-is-home

Beyond the profits from spices, the completion of Magellan’s voyage finally gave the Spanish a water route to the spice Islands, if they wanted it. In terms of prestige and political Might, the achievement was the Renaissance equivalent of winning the space race, a competition between the worlds two great Maritime super powers, Spain and … Continue reading I read another book →

And did so in the downtown Seattle library. One of my favorite paragraphs: I just like writing songs. It’s a natural state to me. I like to believe most people’s nature natural state is to be creative. Definitely was when we were kids, when being spontaneously and joyfully creative was just a default setting. As … Continue reading I read a book →

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Keeping up a social life with unreliable hours is no easy feat, either. My friends and I now resort to scheduling programs such as Doodle to plan group dinners. Committing to a far-off event—a wedding, a quinceañera—can be a source of anxiety when you don’t know what your schedule will be next week, let alone … Continue reading Work →