Mike O'Cull

I've always listened to people talk. I learned early on that every person has a story to tell. I think that's why I love social media so much, maybe too much. I also think it's pretty amazing that people share…

I want to find a place I can stay. I want to make my next last stand. I think I've learned all I can from my present environment and situation and now I must move on. I thought where I…

HAPPY NEW YEAR, GO FUCK YOURSELF!  

I can't approach the new year with anything but a "go fuck yourself" attitude. Now is the time to harden the fuck up and go for it. If I don't, my mind will…

Suburban Dopehead Blues 

It's a beautiful sort of confusion, a feeling of drifting, dreaming, floating away. It comes up on me like a warm cloud, like a drug should, and takes me to someplace better. I start to feel…

I'm not ashamed to say that I loved The Walking Dead last night. I see today that many folks didn't. It was certainly not for everybody, suitable for work, and not meant for kids, but it's horror. It's supposed to…

I used to think that I needed to study every performer in a given style if I wanted to do it, too. That line of thinking was partly beneficial, because it kept me listening and learning as a younger man…

Even though I am a music-reading player and know my theory pretty well, life has taught me that there are many different types of players, vibe is everything, and elitism is a nowhere road. Just because I read music doesn't…

At my beginning, there  was music and desire. That was enough. All I thought about was guitars, bands, writing songs, and performing. Then, other factors crept in, corrupting me and my pure little world. The feelings of self doubt that…

The daytime world never wanted me. I could never find a place in it that didn't feel like torture, like prison. I was never able to buy in or believe enough to allow me to rip whole chunks off of…

I have always had fantasies of belonging. I've always thought it must be wonderful to feel true brotherhood, true kinship with someone or a group of someones. As the perpetual outsider only child-type that I am, that sort of thing…