whygodwhy #30 - disadvantage of random forest

April 8, 2024

Hello to everyone. New music My second collection of ambient music, Disadvantage of Random Forest, is out. I still return to phrases like "Dark Spa" and...

whygodwhy #29: null breath shaper

January 1, 2024

My new album is out, on most/all? of the streaming platforms. It's a collection of dark ambient/minimalist music that I wrote to have something relaxing &...

whygodwhy #28: an impenetrable wall of lists

September 4, 2023

dear [person]: OK so: hello and good morning from the unemployment line. Yes your boy is once again out of a job. Yes this is the 2nd time in 2-ish years....

whygodwhy #27: literally how

April 7, 2023

Last year I recorded and released 3 EPs and I learned a lot about making & producing music but the whole time I kept getting frustrated by how much I don't...

whygodwhy #25: the receipts so far

February 25, 2023

dear [person]: The weird fatigue/brain fog I wrote about last time eventually lifted, about a month ago. I feel like my brain works again and I’m slowwwwwwly...

whygodwhy #24: Andor Variations

December 21, 2022

dear [person]: Weird year. Normally I would just cut and paste my most recent blog post here but there are things I want to talk about that I don’t want to...

whygodwhy #23: the time & the space

October 6, 2022

dear [person]: I've been getting dumber as I get older but I’m sort of leaning into it. It’s been a gradual process. I’ve had time to adjust. My commute to...

whygodwhy #22: orphan status + The First Thing

July 29, 2022

dear [person]: I have a new EP on all the usual music streaming sites. It's 5 songs of what sounds to me like lo-fi adult contemporary. <br /> orphan status...

whygodwhy #21: things that happened + opsec nightmares

July 25, 2022

dear [person]: People keep saying time is meaningless now and I guess what they are talking about is the flattening of experience. I think about the details...

whygodwhy #20: Imaginary Beverage Reviews

April 10, 2022

Many many internet years ago (2003-2008) Josh and I had a site called Knowledge for Thirst. It was a very fun place to update each other about what beverages...

whygodwhy #19: safe as house, quiet as kept

February 2, 2022

Pretty mortifying – amid mild feelings of accomplishment after having finally updated my website – to click back and realize I wrote the exact same post 6...

whygodwhy #18: we accumulated the most data during the times when we were happiest

January 18, 2022

dear [person]: One day I deactivate my social media accounts, for no one specific reason other than a growing accumulation of grief. This will just be until...

whygodwhy #17: vaguely self-cancelled on every platform

October 5, 2021

OK so I'm trying to like, figure out my life online. It's going not amazing. I deactivated my Facebook years ago and then finally a few months ago? for some...

whygodwhy #16: when you are afraid of finding yourself dead

December 19, 2020

(This is two recent blog posts, which I realized form a single cohesive thought. Probably starting next year I'll just start emailing each blog post out to...

whygodwhy #15: the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks

December 20, 2019

It has been 15 months since I last wrote you. Imagine setting yourself a bar as low as "send one email per year" and still finding it barely achievable. I...

whygodwhy #14: what's good & what isn't good

September 29, 2018

Friends, hello. I set such a low bar for myself: one email newsletter per year! Enough! And this email was still so difficult to write. But what else is...

whygodwhy #13: isn't she lovely, this Hollywood girl?

September 20, 2017

Hi! It's been over a year since I last sent one of these. I feel pretty good about this cadence, but let me know what you think. Real quick, here's what's...

whygodwhy #12: hanging out at the mall / Imagines book / Toronto meet & greet

May 19, 2016

Kev-o: what’s new? Someone decided to publish my Kim Kardashian fanfiction in an actual book. Whoa, say more. My story “Taking Selfies and Overthrowing the...

whygodwhy #11: how to breathe the same oxygen as me

July 27, 2015

I’m reading with a bunch of very talented people this Thursday the 30th at 8PM in Boston. Everyone will be reading weird/funny pop culture pieces. It will be...

whygodwhy #10: All Kim Everything

September 18, 2014

It starts like this: I follow Kim Kardashian on Instagram. No real reason, besides she’s great? I also follow Kerry Washington and Barbara Eden. No...

whygodwhy #09: Bellarinas & IRL

July 14, 2014

My dear kfannypack:This has been a weird and terrible summer and there should probably be a rule about sending email updates when you're having a weird and...