A Stream of Consciousness Portrait of a Civilized Man — Like any living being on this planet, I am a product of environmental and cultural conditioning. I’ve come to understand this fact, and also resent it because I base my worth and purpose on what civilization conditioned me to value most: my work. I don’t blame capitalism, socialism, communism, or…

Thick Skin Wards Off Hate — It’s likely because I’ve been raised in NYC that my crew has always been diverse, presumably by default. As a youth, I shared many common interests with kids of various ethnic, sexual, and religious backgrounds including sports, pop culture, and hobbies. You like Ghostbusters? I like Ghostbusters! Where I experienced…

The Diva and His Bandmates Are Attacked On a Cliffside in California, Then Had Cops Called On Them For a Phony Hate Crime in the Midwest — Your Death Metal Diva here, blessing you with another tale from the road… In the Summer of ’04, my former band Through The Discipline saddled up and rode on a full-US tour with fellow metalcore misfits Full Blown Chaos and hardcore brutes 100 Demons. This was our second tour in…

All Joking Aside — On September 18th, 2010, at 27 years old, I dared to cross “try stand-up comedy” off my creative projects list and walked away with one of the scariest yet greatest experiences of my life. Leading up to this event I’d been gracing stages all over North America as a lead…

If There is Dismantling Afoot, It’s Not Being Orchestrated by Feminism or Wokeness — According to numerous studies, testosterone levels in human males are steadily decreasing by generation. In 2020, Soum Lokeshwar, MD, MBA, of the Yale School of Medicine announced results from a 17-year study that showed testosterone deficiency having a prevalence of 10%-40% among adult males, and 20% among AYA (adolescent and…

A Poem of Misdirected Pleasure — She’s not good for me she knows it Wendy’s in my car next to me smelling lovely as always sizzling in a setting sun Just me and her I only indulge myself Poke the radio off fester in silence This hurts Waste of a majestic dusk I check my hair…

April 28th, 2022 @ Elsewhere | Brooklyn, NY — This thrash metal onslaught took place in a venue I’d yet to occupy in my club-crawling career, Elsewhere, in Brooklyn, New York. For a joint that’s five years old it’s surprisingly clean, wafting around a new CD smell inside. Before entering the hall I grabbed a garlic cucumber salad w/tingly…

Growling, Yelling, and Screaming Have Taken Me Around the World — I’m excited and grateful to tackle Warren Patterson & Globetrotters Publication’s writing prompt, “Globetrotters Writer Spotlight”. Without further ado, here’s an insight into some of my travel history, which was luxurious at times, but mostly spent breathing bandmates’ farts in vans, buses, and airplanes. Hi Globetrotters. My name is…

Do Your Souls a Favor and Go to a Show — As the world continues to gradually come to its senses around ‘rona, live shows and tours are flooding the landscape, and thankfully so. Along with restaurants and countless small businesses that didn’t possess diplomatic immunity to the pandemic like Walmart, Target, Amazon, etc., …