October 2011
1 post
American Football in the Brah
I’m a huge NFL fan. I know, I know… That’s not a popular statement in the crowd that I run with. In general, I’d say most folk singers don’t even know what the NFL is. Not a huge organized sports crowd… at least not the folk singers I know. Actually I do have two close folk singer friends who are sports fans: Danny Schmidt and Robby Hecht — who is a...
March 2011
2 posts
January 2011
2 posts
December 2010
13 posts
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Winter Wonderland / Pleistocene
It just hasn’t stopped snowing here in the past 5 or 6 days. One would expect this in the highlands, but down here next to the sea you just never expect more than a “dusting” of snow. I suppose it’s fitting as I’m sitting here reviewing final mix candidates and trying to get the artwork together for ‘Pleistocene’. Maybe I’ll name my next record...
Bandolier from the forthcoming album,...
November 2010
5 posts
Delta: The worst. (pt. II)
Stupid Delta. We get on the plane and then in typical Delta fashion we are told that there’s a slight delay while they finish some routine maintenance. Obviously not all that routine or else it would’ve been completed before they loaded us all onto the plane. An hour and a half goes by and finally they tell us that the maintenance is finished, but now there’s a lot of water in the aft coming...
Delta: The worst.
My move to edinburgh for the winter has started off in pretty typical fashion. I got a car service to the airport early this morning — and it’s a good thing I got an early start. I forgot my passport, so had to call the car service guy immediately to come back to the airport (luckily he wasn’t very far away) and pick me up, then take me all the way back to the other side of...
Postcrypt
Tonight I went uptown to Postcrypt (in the basement of a church on the Columbia campus) to see my friends Nels Andrews and Anthony da Costa play. Both sets were great of course and afterwards Nels and I shared a cab back to Brooklyn. The upper west side is SO FAR AWAY from my house, and I live about as close as you can to the upper west side and still be in Brooklyn. It took an hour and a half...
AJRoach.net
Back at the turn of the century when I decided it might be a good idea to have my own website — just in case I ever wanted to try and make a career out of this whole music thing — I tried to purchase AJRoach.com. Much to my disappointment, it was already taken. Some dude in Australia has it. I tried to buy it from him all those years ago, but he wanted a ridiculous sum for it. I...