I dunno about you, but my rainy Monday was super inspired, thanks entirely to the human person on my left in the photo above. 🙂

Go buy Mike Doughty‘s new record “The Heart Watches While The Brain Burns” right now!!! You will be so happy you did. If you don’t already listen to his music, start now. He has been, and continues to be, a huge influence on my own songs and writing. I love this rad dude!!!

My buddy Sheila Hamilton and I got to chat with Mike backstage before our Keep Oregon Well Concert Series session and we talked about music, mental health, what it means to be a public person in longterm recovery from drugs and alcohol, and more.

Watch our interview here:

Watch Mike performing for Keep Oregon Well at Kink FM’s Skype Live Studio this afternoon here: Read the rest of this entry »

Thanks so much to Nada Surf, the soundtrack of my youth, for their support of our Keep Oregon Well campaign and social movement designed to raise awareness about mental health and fight stigma! These guys were as warm and wonderful as their music is good and it was a joy to spend the afternoon with them while they were in town on tour.

Watch me interview the band about mental health before the show here:

And here we are with a bunch of signs:

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