Music molds our lives. Speaks to us, for us, about us. Gives us something to hang on to when we can’t find anything else.
It holds our memories, a scrapbook of sound.
Music is a secret code, never forgotten by those it represents; easily recognized by fellow code-bearers.

Songs that spoke to me growing up..

Danny Kaye – Inchworm

The first song I remember from toddlerhood. I still remember it 40 years later, in fact, its when I’m most frantic that I remember this most.

Corey Hart – Never Surrender
at 15 years old, trying to hang on until I got the chance to leave

Suzanne Vega – Luka
at 17 years old, right before I left home

Mike and the Mechanics – The Living Years
at 18 years old, when I was still trying to reconcile with my father.
joined the army soon after.

White Lion – When the Children Cry
while I was in the army, trying to figure out why.

Phil Collins – You’re No Son of Mine
a few years after I left home, after my father refused to speak with me.
nightmares got really bad after this.

Fish – Family Business
1991 – in school at UW, trying to accept why no one ever helped

Pet Shop Boys – Go West
after my first serious break-down, had left Seattle to hide from the
world, went back to Seattle and eventually a job at Microsoft

Simon & Garfunkel – I Am a Rock
for years and years… whenever I couldn’t handle the nightmares and pain