Crushing Krisis

Your Author, Then & Now

Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2010 11:49 pm.

One last 10th Anniversary post…

Your Author, August 26, 2000
Age: 18
Occupation: College Student / Orientation Leader / Barista
Education: One year of college
Residence: Double-occupancy dorm room
Roommate: Viktor, a despicable Eastern European cad
Music collection: about 2,500 songs
Songs written: 100
Girls dated: 0

As a performer: High school and college plays. Maybe an open mic.

Recording rig: Pinhole mic in PC monitor, into Real Producer

Blogging platform: Free account on freespeech.org; Blogger via FTP

Media experience: Hung out at Philly Weekly for the day. Wrote for a little-viewed e/n site (remember those?)

Your Author, August 26, 2010
Age: 28
Occupation: Communications Account Manager
Education: BA Communications, minors in Theatre & Music
Residence: Single tudor house
Roommate: Elise, charming wife and rock star
Music collection: about 18,000 songs
Songs written: 262
Girls dated: 2

As a performer: A few hundred open mics and a burgeoning number of full gigs; public speaking for groups >4000

Recording rig: Multi-track digital home studio

Blogging platform: Pro account on Dreamhost; installed WordPress

Media experience: Copywriting for local and national publications & brochures; managing multi-platform ad campaigns; brand identities for two non-profit startups; 10 years of blogging

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10 years, by the numbers

Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2010 8:17 pm.

As of today, the 10th anniversary of Crushing Krisis, I’ve blogged…

3,652 days
3,724 posts and 28 pages
988,154 total words
263 average words per post
271 average words per day

641 posts with the world “guitar”
261 posts with the word “awesome”
181 posts mentioning Madonna
121 posts linking to rabi

3 months with posts every single day

107 unique original songs posted (holy shit, that’s a lot … 10 albums worth!)

And, in those ten years of my life…

262 original songs written
105 of 120 months in relationships
17 states visited or traveled-through
11 guitars owned
11 different job titles

One pair of favorite boots, purchased circa 1997. Resoled twice.

10 non-profit fundraiser concerts
9 roommates
7 primary residences
7 plays produced
4 twenty-four hour fundraisers
4 appearances at the Tin Angel
3 iPods
2 skydives
1 favorite pair of boots

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Happy Birthday To This

Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2010 12:42 pm.

A tenth anniversary post in five parts, accompanied by ten years of photos from the blog.

One of CK's earliest mastheads, from 2000-2001.

I. The Measure of a Decade - what do ten years really mean?
II. My Random Niche - how CK began, and what it became
III. Excelsior, Always – my year in review
IV. The Unhealthy Habit - how CK changed my life (finally) (again)
V. Past Is Prologue - my gratitude for the past ten years
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10 posts from Year 10 for my 10th anniversary

Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2010 9:01 am.

In a few short hours it will be the tenth anniversary of my first post on Crushing Krisis.

As you might expect, I have a lot to say about that. Before I do, I wanted to share ten of my favorite posts from this past year. (Actually, it’s 13 posts, but the pairs are pairs for a reason – not out of indecisiveness).
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House Concert Highlights: Madonna, Mieka, & Elise

Posted on Monday, August 23, 2010 9:46 am.

OMG you guys, you missed the best night ever. But don’t worry – I recorded it all for you!

Last night I supported Mieka Pauley at our first ever house concert, which was also ostensibly the CK 10th Anniversary Show. It was amazing. I had a great time playing songs I usually think are pretty hard, and Mieka was both flawless and real several feet away from my sofa.

Here’s two highlights I will treasure forever…

I cover “Ray of Light” for the first time ever, on my baritone guitar, which I had only figured out how to do about 24 hours prior.

Mieka plays her spectacular tune “Colossal” with impromptu, unrehearsed harmony from Elise, my wife and lead singer of Filmstar.