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Definitely no shortage of bizarre things out in th

Definitely no shortage of bizarre things out in the desert. Lots of things to share about music and life and gigs and such but doesn’t feel appropriate to talk up personal stuff while the country is basically bracing for impact. In the meantime I’m grateful to for a few days away before the zoom life starts up again 🙏 #joshuatree #cali #desertlife

Spent the holiday time streamlining my teaching/pr

Spent the holiday time streamlining my teaching/production station and adding a third display. Trying to make year 2 of Zoom life as ergonomic and aesthetic as I can. #homestudio #sessionguitarist #zoomlife #upliftdesk #wfh

Yep still a club kid at heart. Merry Christmas y’all. I know we are all missing loved ones and struggling with this long wait to get back to our unencumbered ways of life. In the meantime I think we will just need to let the happiness come where it may 🎄🌴🌵 #christmasinla

Settled in enough in LA to reclaim a long-standing

Settled in enough in LA to reclaim a long-standing family tradition. #dickensvillage #homefortheholidays #achristmascarol

Just an old man and his candy corn. I’ve tried t

Just an old man and his candy corn. I’ve tried to make a seasonally appropriate plushy substitution. No dice. #pjthecat 😹😹

Also thank you to this little buddy for being an e

Also thank you to this little buddy for being an excellent copilot #jacksonthecat

MFA recital in the bag. So many different folks fr

MFA recital in the bag. So many different folks from so many periods of my life all hanging together in one virtual space. Thank you for you energy, your enthusiasm and your open ears, and to my varied and extremely loving teachers, who have encouraged me to make the right kind of space after 15 years of continually diminishing returns. I have grown so much as a person during this time of isolation. Thank you for allowing me to share some of that with you 🙏 #calarts #gradschool #composer #guitarist #lamusic

Tonight, presenting new music in 5 streams of cons

Tonight, presenting new music in 5 streams of consciousness as part of my MFA at @calarts, all things I have written, performed on, produced and mixed or co-mixed myself. 7pm PST with virtual reception to follow. This is a zoom presentation that won’t be available after the fact. Visual contributions by @marcy_gee Jacob Vigil and Ben Bunner. Musical contributions from @andreycheggi @don_w_berger @tommcnalley @vickenhovsepian Armando Wood @a.j.haynes and the incredible first ever CalArts Creative Repertory Ensemble. Blessed to be among these folks. DM me for the link. #calarts #mfa #mastersrecital #burqueña #newmexico #newmexicomusic #femaleguitarist #femalecomposer #guitarist #newmusic

Used 10 out of the 11 kiddos this week, 9 of them

Used 10 out of the 11 kiddos this week, 9 of them on recordings. It’s been a good week 😎

@calarts brought @nelscline into our homes tonight

@calarts brought @nelscline into our homes tonight for a solo concert and discussion. Really grateful for this last few weeks where I get to be a student in a formal setting before I go back to just being a student by natural design. 🙏#calarts #nelscline #jazzmaster

Night of rest with my little dude. #jacksonthecat

Night of rest with my little dude. #jacksonthecat

Guy with a Mohawk and a mask in front of a boarded

Guy with a Mohawk and a mask in front of a boarded up Subway holding a #fucktrump sign in broad daylight on a Saturday is peak #2020vibes as far as I’m concerned. #losangeles #weho

#WeHo turning it OUT this afternoon! Hoping everyo

#WeHo turning it OUT this afternoon! Hoping everyone stays safe as the day wears on, it was a joy to ride with y’all for a while there. #losangeles #2020vision #westhollywood #vote #bidenharris #fucktrump

Folks be out in LA today 🌈💜🤘🏻 #fucktru

Folks be out in LA today 🌈💜🤘🏻 #fucktrump #bidenharris #thisiswhatdemocracylookslike #losangeles

Somehow managing to keep my virtual education toge

Somehow managing to keep my virtual education together in the middle of all this, so I can finish my Master’s degree in December. I don’t intend for the conflicts initiated by this hateful administration and the incredible challenges posed by trying to keep up at an elite institution while coming from no financial safety net, in the middle of a pandemic where my industry is frozen more or less indefinitely, keep me from crossing the finish line in 6 weeks. Hanging with this handsome old critter definitely helps...I hope y’all were able to vote. Thankfully my absentee ballot came in ahead of the deadline and I was able to get it back to NY in time to be counted today. No selfie because I am definitely not planning to put on actual pants until at least Wednesday afternoon 🙃#pjthecat #gradschool #votehimout #stayfocused

Didn’t realize how badly I needed to participate

Didn’t realize how badly I needed to participate in this ostensibly farcical process, as a matter of maintaining my own mental health, until I cried all the way to the post office and back. I don’t have the energy to talk about what happened to me on the Saturday before the election in 2016, 4 years ago today, but those of you who are close enough to me to know what I am going through right now are aware that I am still struggling, mentally and physically, to heal from the damage that happened to me in the name of Donald Trump. Please for the love of god. I know it’s a real shit sandwich to have to pick between two aging white guys again. But people with any sort of minority status in this country are not going to make it through another 4 years if we don’t start pushing back against this administration of bigots and bullies today. Go do it. Vote. And then get some rest. We have a long way to go. #vote #ivoted #latinasforblacklives #votehimout #bluewave

Calling a do-over on the Bowie hair. Whatever we c

Calling a do-over on the Bowie hair. Whatever we can do to make this crazy moment in history a little more magical is good by me. #pinkhairdontcare #newhairwhodis #overtone

Oh good lord I didn’t realize how much I was nee

Oh good lord I didn’t realize how much I was needing this time and space #California #desertlife

Teaching writing and recovering from the first mon

Teaching writing and recovering from the first month of Zoom insanity for the next week. Most of what we are going through as a nation is just awful, so I am finding ways to take the good with the bad where I can. #escapefromla #artistretreat #covidvacay

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