Travel

Even though it technically was a bad experience it turned into a good one in the end, and overall that’s what makes tours great. It’s an adventure.

As writers, we can get stuck in our own heads. One of the best cures for this, I’ve found, is to travel.

Make a list of what you must bring into your writing space. Include: a table, a chair, paper and pen. Silence and solitude, and not much else.

Being a touring musician turns faceless, nameless strangers into real people on a regular basis.

Our background art, “Three Horses” is by artist Rocky Norton. Rocky builds, paints, constructs, deconstructs, and reinvents things—in his studio and on the road—with stone, metal, wood and paint.

A writer on the road may be taking, by necessity, a leave of absence from her work but is gathering material for other works.

When I asked the drummer about his hand, which was wrapped in gauze and a splint, he just shrugged and said, “Fuck it, punk rock.”

The Curious Townie himself Steven J Westman joins Peri and Clarke at the ABQ Press Club to chat about the 505 Faces project, beards, and the Balloon Fiesta.

Musician Jeremy Young toured Japan with his trio. Here follows a wealth of tips on the best ways to save money and enjoy yourself touring Japan.

Now Sam’s living in NYC in a basement with housemates, a head full of new songs, and not much else.

Google Maps makes it so dang hard to create and save maps these days, and to access old ones I created a few years ago. Ugh! I’m trying to figure it out.

I’ve seen a friend literally get hit by a truck and end up $7,000 in debt from medical expenses despite having a plan through the Affordable Care Act.

And yadda yadda yadda, Le Chat Lunatique ends up in Kazakhstan, eating caviar for breakfast and getting interviewed in the Guns & Roses Bar.

How things have changed in four short years! So now, what do I do? Go back to waiting tables? Work in an office? Have a boss?!

Every four years, in the early hours of a new or renewed mandate, I do find myself mysteriously yet resolutely standing at a personal crossroad again.