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Halloween has always and will always be my favorite holiday. Maybe it's the changing leaves, maybe it's the most acceptable time of year to wear black, maybe it's because I'm a Scorpio. Who knows? The point is, I'm at my prime in the fall and I want to capture this feeling to share with you.

As you all know by now, I am convinced the album as an art piece is not dead. With the introduction of streaming services, yes, a lot of people gave up on albums, opting instead for only selecting singles for their playlists or shuffling all of an artist's music. There's benefits to this new way of consuming music, but...

Inspiration is everywhere, all around us, all the time. It's staring back at you from that bowl of Special K, the leaves turned over before a rainstorm, the spider weaving a web outside your front door. With unhinged creativity, even the most mundane can become art. The challenge is getting to that point, to see the world in overexposed neons...

I don't believe you choose to be an artist. It's something you are compelled to do, obsessively. It's something that you can't fathom life without. It's purpose, a reason to keep going, and every other cliché thing a thousand other people have said about the act of creation. Free will and choice only comes in when you decide to make...

This past month has been incredible for music, from the Hella Mega tour announcement to new albums from so many of my favorite artists. Typically, I try to recommend albums that have been out for a while. That way, I have time to really form an opinion on them and watch my relationship to the music evolve, but I couldn't help myself this time....

I am six years old when I hear "Sugar, We're Goin Down" played on the radio for the first time. I don't pay much attention then, too preoccupied in the backseat with my new pink Nintendo DS, but in the coming years, I will end up downloading it using YouTube to MP3. I'll also think it was written by the...

Considering I've spent the better part of the last few months offering unsolicited advice about writing, I figure it's about time I prove that I know how to do it myself. For this week, I went back through the archives and pulled out this little flash fiction piece from a couple years back titled, "Feed the Birds." Be sure to...

Have you ever been angry? Of course you have, but I'm talking about a different kind of angry. I'm talking about a rage that guts you, leaves you red on the outside and empty on the inside. I'm talking about the kind of fury that consumes you entirely. Whether it be at a person, at a situation, or at the...

Every time I sit down to write, whether it be a blog post, a script, or a novel, I find myself immediately reaching for my headphones. I don't know when it happened, but at some point, music became as imperative to my writing process as a pen and paper. But, if we're being honest, I should have seen it coming....

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