Check this out. Just saw the review of my band’s new CD So Long… in the June issue of Revue. You can see it on the page here, but I’ll copy it here: Common Shiner So Long … So Long … is a great CD from Grand Rapids band Common Shiner (yes, named for the …
Category: Writings
My Writings
How’s the Weather at the End of Time?
Another new song. Probably some of the more interesting/strange lyrics I’ve written. So I figured I’d give it an interesting/strange title to go with it. How’s the Weather at the End of Time? The smell of spring The dewy cling to my skin The sense of change Yet I end up here every year Well, …
The Naturals
New song I wrote this past week. Lyrically it’s probably the closest thing to a punk song (an ideal punk song, that is) that I’ll ever write. The Naturals Surrounded by all these empty eyes What if all of them just came to life? We’re all due for a change The rise of all humanity …
Common Shiner in Revue
Hey look at those sexy dudes in the April edition of Revue.
A Closer Look at CRC Policy
by Dave Ellens I’ve made a huge mistake. Such a statement, bold as it is, is almost always hard to make. We, as Christians, should be among the first in line to admit wrongdoings or misconceptions when dealing with the life around us. Oftentimes, though, it seems that there is a certain amount of infallibility …
The Duplex Chronicles – Cleanliness Part 1: T-Day (trash-day)
So as you can imagine, living in a house with a minimum of nine other college men at a time, cleanliness was not at the top of many folks’ to do lists. Though I myself toiled to keep the house in some sort of order, there was only so much I could do. Before quitting …
The Train They Call the City
After the Hurricane Katrina disaster, I thought to myself, I wonder what it would be like to be in downtown New Orleans at night right now. Since there’s no power, would you see the stars reflecting off the buildings more clearly than ever before? Would you hear people screaming almost nonstop, or would it be …
Morgan in the Paper
Well this is actually from a while ago, and I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to put it up, but this was from my solo gig I had at Gustavus Adolphus College back in September. This is the cover of the “Gustavian Weekly,” the student newspaper. The caption underneath reads: Saturday night …
The Duplex Chronicles – Christmastime
With the end of the fall semester at school always comes Christmas, my favorite time of the year (according to Johnny Mathis and many others, it’s the most wonderful time of the year). I sit here on Christmas Eve in the year of our Lord 2005, and it occurred to me that this is the …
King Kong
An ambitious remake by our beloved Peter Jackson to remake the move that made him want to make movies in the first place, and it was everything you could want. Not only for the fact that it’s ridiculously entertaining, it’s just a great movie, who’s only real downfall is its length (which is a short …