by Slade | May 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
In the world of the independent artist, there aren’t obvious measuring sticks by which to judge our progress. It’s why we often compare ourselves to our friends and peers. My special has gotten 30,000 views this month. Is that extraordinary? Just ordinary? A miserable...
by Slade | Dec 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
We’re tiptoeing into Christmas, and while I might be spending it in muggy Houston this year, my previous few months have seen winter weather aplenty. I spoke a few weeks ago about how I missed seeing the Northern Lights while I was visiting Norway, but I’d like to...
by Slade | Aug 8, 2019 | Travel, Uncategorized
There’s something to be said for doing things more than once. It’s true for a lot of things. I’m currently in The Azores, on Terceira Island specifically. This is at least my sixth time here, and I’ve walked away from every visit with a completely different...
by Slade | Jul 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
Hey there. Can I interrupt whatever you’re working on? Let me tell you about my last two weeks. I learned a lot of things. Most of them were not good. Twice I found myself in extremely uncomfortable situations created by other people. In the process,...
by Slade | Jul 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
In a world of self-help gurus and life coaches, we put too much importance on the blueprint and not enough on the work. One of the inarguable things I’ve learned in my twenty years in entertainment is that you cannot get out of putting in the time. I used...
by Slade | Jun 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
This cat-that-is-not-mine and I have had a week. We are almost six months in and she’s remained a feral, outside cat who just happens to call my front porch home base. I came from home from Louisiana this past weekend to find her limping fiercely, and upon further...
by Slade | Mar 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
As environments go, it’s hard to find a more diversely populated location than the freeway. Speed demons. Slow pokes. Vacationing families. CEO’s going to work. Uber drivers. Delivery drivers. That one guy on the motorcycle at midnight doing 120mph like a drunk...
by Slade | Feb 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
Airports are flowing rivers of human bodies. Thousands of humans snake forward around turns and down impossibly long hallways. Different currents move at different speeds. The slow and weak, the people who fly rarely if ever, get snagged on the rocks and...
by Slade | Jan 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
Tweak is my dude. He was the second fish I got after I got after the monster, Black Tooth Grin. Tweak is an electric yellow cichlid. Black Tooth is an aggressive orange some-kind-of-African-cichlid-or-another, and easily five times Tweak’s size. They are the tank’s...
by Slade | Nov 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
Purple, green, and yellow lights sparkle in reflection on the rain-soaked cobblestone. We arrive in a group, but a sudden downpour sends everyone scattering. Everyone but me, of course, so despite the diminutive heart the oldest city in Germany, I quickly find myself...
