My Secret Career

I wrote many songs underground on New York City public transit. Someone caught my eye at a dive bar listening to a loud band. I never spoke ...

To get to the first song I ever wrote without any outside help, I have to talk about my favorite band. And I’m not talking about Fecund Yout...

New York. Upper West Side. 1996ish. I wasn’t admitting a lot to myself or anyone else. It took a lot to speak as plainly as I do in this son...

Fables often have strange messages embedded within them. Messages that might not make much sense to a child. The story of Peter Rabbit alway...

The title of this post is deliberately misleading but also 100% true.  In 1996, my first big opportunity in New York came when I was cast as...

I was leaving town. Seems like a decisive move, right? Definitive. Psychological, yes, but geographical to boot. The end of summer approache...

The Mahoneys had a blast every single time we practiced or played. We all got along, we laughed, the only personal issue in the band was tha...

“Are you strung out on some face?/Well, I know it ain’t mine” - The Replacements Truly unrequited love is easier to get over than that murky...

I knew when I wrote “It’s Maria’s Heart” that it was clearly the best song I’d written to date. I immediately brought it in to rehearsal and...

This song is a minor miracle.  We used to routinely play something we creatively titled “The Poetry Game”. Everyone should play it. Whoever ...