All This Noise

As I cull through my songs on iTunes to get rid of duplicates (they’re everywhere, I swear), I find myself becoming reacquainted with some gems I had completely forgotten existed. Well, when my iPod only holds about 26,000 songs and my iTunes has 10 times that number inevitably a few artists/songs get left out when … Continue reading All This Noise

The Big Empty

“It isn’t you. Isn’t me. Search for things that you can’t see. Going blind. Out of reach. Somewhere in the vasoline.” ~Stone Temple Pilots I first heard his voice in 1994, the phenomenon known as Scott Weiland, and I was instantly hooked. It was summer, and I was in Huntsville, Alabama, enjoying my recent high … Continue reading The Big Empty

One Headlight

“There’s got to be something better than in the middle. But me and Cinderella, we put it all together. We can drive it home with one headlight” ~The Wallflowers It was spring, 1997, and I was working hard at the campus library, even though I was on academic probation. None of the other workers knew … Continue reading One Headlight