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Dear Seventeen Year Old Me:

In a precious few months, you will be a legal adult and will be responsible for your own choices, by proxy. I want you to see this as a good thing; for all of the potential that you have to make catastrophic bad choices, you have the equal potential to make miraculously good ones. For every situation that you’re in that could be bad, there is an equally accessible one that is amazing; that responsibility to make the best of it is now up to you, do not take it lightly. Continue reading “Dear Seventeen Year Old Me.” →

Let me begin by saying this: if you bought the book, thank you for your love and support. I get overwhelmed thinking about the selflessness of the people who bought it just because they are my friends or family. If you haven’t bought the book, what better time than now? Continue reading “25 Facts About “Broken Promise Records” that you (Probably) Didn’t Know” →

Thanks to the subject of the writing that I am doing right now, I’ve had a lot of opportunities to ponder and postulate on who I am, who I was, and who I will become. I have questions, damnit! I need answers, I crave resolution; most importantly, I need to know that it’s not too late. This week, I wanted to share those questions with you, and invite you to reach out to me if you have the answers I seek.

In a world where there are no stupid questions, just stupid answers, I seek to change the status quo: Continue reading “The Once and Future A.P. Miller” →

I waited for years before I’d watch “Donnie Darko”. I have this thing where I can’t embrace a movie or a band if its too hyped up; I feel like I’d be giving too much of my energy to conformity, and I just can’t have that. It’s why I have yet to watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy, most of the “Fast and Furious” movies past “Tokyo Drift,” and why I’ve never read the “Johnny the Homicidal Maniac” comics. When it’s been completely forgotten by the main stream, then I will imbibe. When I finally did watch Donnie Darko, Drew Barrymore and the phrase “Cellar Door” took on whole new meaning for me. Continue reading “Cellar Door: The Lines in Popular Songs That Have Moved Me the Most” →

I posted on my personal Facebook page about how much I missed those “Punk-O-Rama” sampler CD’s — seriously, they were like $3.00 for thirty songs, and they rocked. I discovered a lot of my favorite angsty teenaged tunes on those CD’s. That got me thinking about some of my favorite punk songs and how angry I used to get about bands that people would call punk that weren’t really punk (in my opinion) and how many sub-genres there really were. Continue reading “Punk Rawk Playlist!” →