Music- (in absolutely no particular order) Bruce Springsteen-Born To Run, The Rising; The Normals-A Place Where You Belong; U2-The Joshua Tree, The Unforgettable Fire, Achtung Baby; Derek Webb-Mockingbird, I See Things Upside Down; Wilco-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, A Ghost Is Born, Being There(disc 2), Ryan Adams-Heartbreaker, Love is Hell(parts 1 and 2), Jacksonville City Nights; Eric Peters-Land of the Living; Death Cab for Cutie-Transatlanticsm; The Beatles-Revolver, Rubber Soul; Josh Ritter-The Animal Years; Tom Petty; etc....
Reading- The work(all of it) of Ernest Hemingway, The work of John Steinbeck, The short stories of Flannery O'Connor, (as cliche as it may seem right now...) Donald Miller, Brennan Manning, Karl Barth, Soren Kierkegaard, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The poetry of Carl Sandburg and Robert Frost, and so much more that i've read and cannot remember for this excercise.
Howdy everyone-Hope everyone is doing well that comes to take a look at this space. I'd love it if you take a listen to some of my songs. If you like them, leave me a message on here, and if you like them enough that you want to listen to them all the time, feel free to purchase a song or two from the store. Now, you probably want to know something about me, since this is my bio and all. Here goes: I live in Knoxville, Tn and have a day/night job working alternating shifts between 4pm-midnight and midnight-8am at a shelter serving the homeless in Downtown Knoxville. I write mainly because I have no choice not to-the songs come sometimes when i'm completely unready for them, and sometimes when i'm ready they come out right as rain-I can't help it sometimes. Most of my songs focus around me working through my own quirks and foibles and not always with great success. Hopefully you can identify with that-i'm just a regular guy dealing with life, and sometimes i write songs about it.
k so im a dork and i just put my friends' names into a slogan generator..what i got the first time with yours was, "Gonne be a while? Gran an Andy!" or "The Loudest Noise Comes From an Andy!" hahah wow NERD=LAURA!
While folding clothes, I came up with the hare-brained scheme of us dying t-shirts with black tea, and you screen-printing them, and us making billions! Ah ha ha!
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
hey my dear friend!! i just wanted to say.. thanks so much for the encouragement last night.. that CD is awesome!!! (so awesome in fact.. i got caught driving to fast and got a ticket) but oh well.. life happens.. I hope you're having a wonderful day!! i'll talk to you later babe!
I've got to put down the Piper for the night, but this feels like one of those things that, if indeed it's true, it's the most exciting thing I've ever heard - and for the life of me I can't explain why.
