NYC Event: Nov. 5th! The Qualia LIVE @ Trashbar!

We, The Qualia (Lars, Chvad, Rossen, and Zakai) are playing at The Trash Bar on the evening of November 5. We’re going to be hanging out at the bar before we go on, so come on over, hang out, and then stick around for the karaoke festivities after our show. It’s going to [...]

New Orleans EVENT: Oct. 30th! Hate in the Box w/special guest Chvad SB!

This Sat, Oct 30th, Chvad SB (of THINGS OUTSIDE THE SKIN and The Qualia) will be sitting in as a guest guitar player for NYC’s Hate in the Box at the New Orleans “Endless Night Vampire Ball“! C’mon out and see what the secret conspiracy ridden practice sessions have been all about! Demon [...]

The 2010 Bushwick Tornado or “What happened to my truck and what’s left of Maria Hernandez Park?”

It was already a reasonably stressful day.  It was the typical “my job is stressing me so bad that my body has developed an auto-immune skin eating disorder” kind of day. So when I had heard that a potential tornado wiped through a number of boroughs in New York City I was [...]

Slideshow: Dead Horse Bay, Brooklyn, NY. 2010.

I drove to Dead Horse Bay to explore another part of Brooklyn. This place and the surrounding areas don’t seem anything at all like Brooklyn. Not a lot of people and lot of vegetation. Also, an enormous amount of pollution on the shores. Some parts of the beach seemed to primarily be made [...]

Back to Bugville II: Bugbound

207 Johnson Ave. Brooklyn, NY. My new home for 3 1/2 weeks.

This initially looked like a good sign.

The story begins very simply. It begins with… it begins with the… it umm… well… sigh. That’s a lie. The story doesn’t begin simply at [...]