whygodwhy #31: archive of deeply unsettling meditations
Hello everyone, It’s that time of the year where I send you an email b/c you signed up (thank you) to be alerted when I update my website but I don’t send...
whygodwhy #30 - disadvantage of random forest
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. I guess that's the...
whygodwhy #21: things that happened + opsec nightmares
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
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
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
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
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
(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
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
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?
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
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
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...