I wrote a whole page detailing a bunch of updates but have decided succinct is better. There’s PLENTY more that I’ve got going on aside from basically pioneering the modern van life paradigm or model before the term was coined in the early 2010s, before smartphones, before ‘going viral’ etc., etc. But the work to get all that data represented in a tasteful way takes research. The update is that the research is solid. For instance, compiling an incomplete list of all the venues/shows I’ve played across the U.S. and some of Europe – over 100 in the years 2005-2009, including live on air radio, usually highlighting ‘songs from a van’ and that storyline at each show. I’d like to provide links to as many as possible. Grand corresponding picture timeline, too.
Here, I’ll let the cat out of the bag a little bit on the next dedicated piece of press I could track down from when I went on a self-booked winter and spring tour in 2006 – this one from a student newspaper called the Rocky Mountain Collegian in Ft. Collins, Colorado (Colorado State University). It says I’m local on the front page of this section there, and I recollect trying to correct that after it was printed but I guess a van dweller is ‘local’ wherever they hang their hat for the night. Definitely had my CA plates…
As always since the beginning, I’m the only one behind this site – html, ftp, and CSS in the early days, tumblr for some time, dormancy from time to time, and now WordPress as of a few weeks ago. I think I’m starting to get the hang of it a little, but it’s a pretty powerful platform.
I’m hoping to get things in a set-and-forget way soonish so I can share more about current interests and what takes up more of my time these days. But I sure was making a scene with that van so many years ago, again: pre smartphones, pre facebook for all and instagram, pre ‘going viral’ and ‘influencer’ terminology, pre ‘#vanlife’ and hashtagging in general, etc.
Thanks for bearing with me as I revive this site and bring it up to date.