I spot him from the stage as I’m preparing for soundcheck, as he moves purposefully through the crowd of bearded and tie-dye-clad hiking enthusiasts gathered here for the Trail Days Festival. He stands out, wearing a U.S. ...

“I’ll take 30 bags of mulch.” “Alright, sir. No problem.” Fortunately, he’s got a low-slung trailer, which makes pulling the 40lb bags off of the stacks and tossing them a bit easier. Not like the pickup trucks that the ...

Thanksgiving is probably not the best time to hear that my grandmother’s house in Arlington, Virginia, the one place that offered a sense of safety and security in my often-stressful childhood, has been torn down and replaced ...

The night they drove old Ziggy's down: Breaking Season, Annandale and the Signature South Band became the last acts to play the Crow's Nest at Ziggy's last night. The Crow's Nest will be moving to the Gas in Winston-Salem in ...

Some photos I took while doing sound at Elvisfest last weekend.

Found Space Theatre in Greensboro performed William Inge's "The Apartment Complex", a series of six one-act plays dealing with suicide, murder, racism and addiction.

Photos from Heavy Rebel Weekender 2015.

Magpie Thief CD release show at the Blind Tiger

Some photos I took while doing sound at Elvisfest in Chapel Hill. The Raving Knaves also played.

Souls on Saturn with Deadset and Flawed by Design at Ziggy's.

Rocky Horror Picture Show with live cast at the Carolina Theater in Greensboro, Halloween 2014.

Lots of devilment at New York Pizza with Revolutionary Sweethearts, Damn Frank, Jack Carter, Daily Planet, John Kernodel lll and Vel Indica.

Love for Lulu benefit at the Blind Tiger with Purple Schoolbus, the Cat Herders and the Usta Bs.

Eric Sommer, Emily Stewart, Nate & Hannah and Andy Squint at the Blind Tiger.

Amplifier Zine release show with Hot Basic, Someday Rumble, Ivadell, American Americans and Weathered.

I don’t remember the exact date that I first walked into Don Cole’s Record Hut in Sanford, North Carolina. It was probably the spring or summer of 1984, less than two years after my family moved to the small town in the ...

Ameriglow, Totally Slow, Black Squares/White Islands and Born Hollow at the Ameriglow CD release show in Greensboro.

Watts Left performing at the Deck in Jamestown, NC.

Heavy Rebel Weekender 2014… Three days of flying beer and rock n’ roll.

Photos from Greensboro’s Summer Solstice Festival.

The Leeves made a triumphant return to Greensboro with a show at the Chapman Street garage with Ameriglow, Damn Frank and Space Bear.

In a world where love triangles are elevated to grand art, as in Eric Clapton’s “Layla”, it’s hard to figure out where grandiose romanticism ends and batshit crazy begins.

Dropstone at Anything’s Possible Tattoos in Mooresville, NC.

Fans act out the characters at a "Rocky Horror Picture Show" screening in Greensboro.

Amplifier ‘zine held a benefit concert for the family of Richard Mao, who was killed in a fire at a pawn shop in Greensboro. Acts included Other Minds, Ameriglow, Damn Frank and Bare the Traveler.

I covered the Triad Highland Games last week for Triad City Beat.

The Tudes, Raving Knaves, Harmoos and Cathalyn Robs at New York Pizza in Greensboro.

Kids Poetry Basketball is a literacy program founded by Clement Mallory (in yellow shirt, with kids). The held their championship game recently in Greensboro.

Black Santa played their CD release party at Glenwood Coffee and Books in Greensboro, with Totally Slow and Morbids in support.

The Craigslist ad seemed promising: 1999 Honda Civic, 163,000 miles, only 99k on the engine, price 50.

Today was my first day attempting to sell insurance by myself, after I had finished most of my prescription deliveries. I stop at a convenience store to change into my “salesman” shirt, only to realize that the tie I’ve ...

Heart's Bonfire, Wolf's Mouth, Dante CK, Grant Livesay, Corporate Fandango and Black Squares/White Islands all performed at Ampfest 2014, the one-year celebration of Greenboro's "Amplifier" 'zine.

I took these photos at Phuzz Fest in Winston-Salem. Some were later used in a cover story for Triad City Beat

I remember my first gig. It was Halloween night 1987, 20 years to the day after the Stooges played their debut performance. My band Slow Funeral played on my back porch after our first choice of venue, the lead singer's ...

Tomorrow I go to insurance sales school for three days. This is something I have yet to wrap my head around. Of all the things I saw myself doing in my life, selling insurance wasn’t one of them. Then again, neither was ...

A selection of photos from First Friday in downtown Greensboro, an event for painters, musicians, poets and other artists.

Pro wrestlers-in-training strut their stuff while MurderAnn provides incidental music and between-match comic relief at a UIW event in Jamestown.

Jack Carter & the Armory held the release show for their new CD, "Billy the Kid", at the Crown in downtown Greensboro. Other acts on the bill were Trouble and Totally Slow.

I should still be asleep. It’s 6:53 in the morning, and I woke up how many hours ago? Two, three? I don’t know. I’ve got a doctor’s appointment at 8:45 and after that it’s off the deliver prescriptions. I should be in bed, ...

I took a walk for the first time in a long time tonight, just a short one, down to the end of Lindley Park and back. I used to like walking; I’m not sure why I got out of the habit in the last year or so. Maintaining exercise ...

The Tudes and Carmen Bliss performed at the Green Bean as part of the Female Artists Takeover in Greensboro.

Facefirst at Blue Bourbon Jack's in High Point.

I lost a patient today. Well, not really. She’s moving to an assisted living facility, and I won’t be delivering to her anymore. She’s been falling too much lately, she says, and can no longer live at the senior apartments in ...

The show started at Guilford College in the Greenleaf Coffee Cooperative, but apparently Guilford College isn't as rock n' roll friendly as it was when I was doing sound at the Underground, because security showed up and shut ...

The Monkey Mind at Walker's Bar in Greensboro, just around the corner from my house. The place reminds me of the Mos Eisley cantina in "Star Wars"; I was standing next to the guy who came into my house a couple of months back ...

Some people are just assholes. Sometimes it’s their own fault and sometimes there are extenuating circumstances, but they’re still assholes.

I’ve never made much money playing music, so you can imagine my surprise when I received a 1099 from BMI saying I had earned 56.80 in royalties last year. You might also imagine my confusion, for while I’m registered with ...

Matty Sheets and the Blockheads performed at the grand opening of Scuppernong Books in Downtown Greensboro.

I’d already checked out the van last weekend, when Lowell and I went to look at it. Lowell is the formerly homeless mechanic who lives in the loft he built in our toolshed. Though he’s lived there for several years, I don’t ...

The worst thing about not having money is that every day becomes a series of epic struggles that would have Homer’s Ulysses shitting his britches and running for the hills, just one mind-blowing incidence of brain-frying ...