I'll get you up to speed.

I'm Max, I'm in let's say three bands: Los Hooligans, James Rabbit and an as-yet-untitled outfit with some good friends. Even though we are nameless, I include it because we have been playing together in varying permutations for a long time, and have recently been doing "real" gigs. Ones that require forethought, practice, and sometimes matching outfits. We play mostly covers, but we do them damn well.

I'm an accompanist for a high school choir fifteen miles north of town, and erstwhile college student. This summer, I'm vocal coaching a musical for a local youth theatre company I've been affiliated with for a long time, though up till now strictly as a performer.

I just want to write songs. The key word there is "Confidence." Not "over-Confidence," that every song you write is a gift from you to the world's ears; no, no, the confidence to brave through the process of writing a song that might not turn out exactly as you hear it in your head, and the confidence that your next song will be an improvement. I already use semicolons confidently, if inappropriately, why can't I do the same with songs?

By its nature, blogging is pretty egocentric, but I'll try to stay on task and not to be overly self-indulgent.

Thanks for stopping by.

-Max