Def one of my favorite babies, and represented me taking back my career and life from the major label deal that was ruining both at the time. Always grateful for where this one took me.

I was still on cable TV every week when that record came out and I had been for over half a decade at that point. It was super weird because I had all of these huge opportunities but was struggling just to live each day and also survive the insanely unpleasant experience of having no privacy in early addiction recovery. It sucked. And that ultimately had a lot to do with me blowing the thing up. It was not my most graceful moment, but I would save myself again a thousand times over.

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Every so often people send me stuff that they’ve created with my songs on their own, and I always find it moving when something of mine has spoken to someone else somehow.

This week I received a video from an artist named Dandy Jon who is also a fan. Dude made a music video of clips from Greg Araki‘s film “The Living End” set to my song “Things Are Looking Up” (the opening track from my 2010 record “I Killed Tomorrow Yesterday“) and holy shit. It’s awesome.

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