An Exciting Weekend and a Few Updates
Music, books, and friends.
Hey there readers, although I’ve been slacking on updating this page week to week I’m still happy to share that my creative life has been full and fulfilling despite winter illnesses and doldrums.
This Friday, a song I first shared on this page last year (I Still Don’t Know How to Be Alone), is officially being released on all streaming platforms, so you can listen to it wherever you like your music. Here’s a little promo/preview video:
This Saturday, I’ll be performing with my band Stray Horses in Grand Rapids along with the artists Daisybox and Rebekah Jon. This is a ticketed event with 25 percent of proceeds going to the Mental Health Foundation of West Michigan. I’m very excited to be playing music with my friends. We’ll be on around 9pm. Event details here.
In other unrelated news, late last year I embarked on the gargantuan and semi-pretentious task of reading David Foster Wallace’s 1,100 page novel, Infinite Jest, and just finished it a few days ago. I have numerous thoughts on the book as you can imagine but for now I’ll share a small quote from the narrator describing one character, Mario, and his feelings toward his brother Hal.
“He can’t tell if Hal is sad. He is having a harder and harder time reading Hal’s mind or whether he’s in good spirits. This worries him. He used to be able to sort of pre-verbally know in his stomach generally where Hal was and what he was doing, even if Hal was far away and playing or if Mario was away, and now he can’t anymore. Feel it. This worries him and feels like when you’ve lost something important in a dream and you can’t even remember what it was but it’s important. Mario loves Hal so much it makes his heart beat hard. He doesn’t have to wonder if the difference now is him or his brother because Mario never changes.”
See ya around
-Josh
