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Apparently, one of my old lyrics is trending as a hashtag on Twitter. Something similar happened to me in Hollywood: I heard a line from a song I used to play regularly at a well-attended open mic in a movie that came out the next year. The song w...
Ever feel like you're clinging to a piece of driftwood, tossing to and fro in a sea of artless, myopic sanctimony? Ever feel like you're the only person in the room, regardless of how many people are there? Not in a solipsistic, "other people are m...
*Spoiler Alert - You have been warned! Quentin Tarantino lost me a long time ago. The first scene of his I ever saw was the scene in which the names are assigned in Reservoir Dogs, and Mr. Pink is trying to talk his way out of his alias. Based on t...
From now until Oct. 12th there will be a 50% off the entire discography sale. Normally, the deal is $20 for 3 albums and $100 for the whole discography of 21 albums (20, actually, since my first album Angels on Fire is already available for free on...
Last week, I was kidnapped by members of the faculty of the Escuela de Cantautoristas de Pablo Smog in Veracruz, Mexico. Some weird, dirty, unemployed-looking guys pointed their guitars in my face and shoved me in the back of a van and drove me into...
Mexico is big on Whatsapp. I've heard it a few times, "not having Whatsapp down here is almost like not having a phone." I can see the uses of a cellphone, especially if it's the cheapest one on the shelf at Oxxo, which is the Mexican 7-11. I'm on...
Hello, My name is Amoobi. I am a Nigerian songwriting student, currently studying at the Escuela de Cantautoristas de Pablo Smog in the dangerous port city of Veracruz, Mexico. I arrived several months ago on a songwriting visa supposedly issued by...
Mexico is celebrating its Independence Day today. I'm watching it on YouTube, the livestream of an empty Zócalo in Mexico City, where the president spoke and said "Viva México" several times from the balcony, and rang a bell. He's wearing a purple...
In a recent article, I said one of the reasons I came to Mexico is burn-out. I mentioned how I left before the election, not thinking it would matter who won or lost. I'd like to clarify why it never mattered who won or lost, and why Trump was neve...
Compared with eternity: Money compresses time and performs a thousand years of destruction in an hour. Art is an empty, meaningless clinging to a small, inflatable dinosaur in a kiddie pool of sharks. Love is a game of telephone among people who spea...
