It's interesting to me to find the things in life that are so ingrained that it becomes hard to articulate your feelings about them. For some things, it's an easy task: I like to eat cereal because it's crunchy, filling, and gives me an excuse to ingest large quantities of milk. In other cases, it's a far more difficult task and I have found that to be increasingly true when it comes to talking about music. If someone asks you to identify what you like about a song, an albu

I have identified as a drummer longer than almost any other attribute that I have. My first drum kit was a Christmas present when I was four and it has been a downhill run ever since. Drumming really began piquing my interests about 11 years ago though and that's when I started taking it seriously. Before that, I had tried to learn guitar because I wanted to impress people and I had tried to learn piano for no real reason at all, but I stuck with drumming because it felt s

As I've gotten older, I periodically will grasp the importance behind some of the smaller things that my parents used to hassle me about. At the time I considered it pretty nitpicky. Things like rinsing dishes when you put them in the sink, not hoarding piles upon piles of laundry, or putting clean clothes away. You know, small things that take and unacceptable 5 minutes or so out of the busy schedule of a 16 year old. Living on my own brought these things to light for me

It has been a quite a busy, but enjoyable week and I hope your holidays were as fruitful as mine! As I've mentioned before, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because it centers around three Fs for me: family, feasting, and football. I handily accomplished all three this past week seeing all of my immediate family and some of my extended family, watching more football in a three or four day span than I thought was possible, and eating my weight in sweet potato casserole -

I've still got a couple days left to go on getting my hamstring back into good order for running, but nice, clear days like today make it tough to stick to that. I know that if I pushed it too soon, I'd be right back in this situation and maybe a worse one moving forward though, so I just focus on getting back to 100% for now. On Thanksgiving morning, I'm running a 5k with my girlfriend and some of my family so that gives me another incentive to get my body ready to go soon