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The Saint Unborn

 There are a lot of places I would eagerly time travel to: one of them is Leeds University on February 14, 1970, another is the breakneck stretch of days I spent reading Audrey Niffenegger’s “The Time Traveler’s Wife” for the first time. It made me a fan for life, and I wrote this mini-opera as…

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Interstellar

 In January of 2010, The Good broke a 10-year recording hiatus with the release of a new single, “Interstellar.” What made the track special was that it was recorded by Manny Sanchez, who was inspired enough by our “Milky White” album in 1997 to seek out its producer, Chris Shepard, for an engineering internship. Years…

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Mustache Ride

 This somewhat notorious music video (my first) has similarly-named competition from some pretty trashy fare. But this video, directed by Michael Starcevich, is a PG-rated (if even) affair that was created to help gain exposure for Movember, a terrific charity that encourages men to grow mustaches during the month of November to help fight men’s…

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Alphabites

 A is for AC/DC… W is for Weezer! I created this song and stop-motion music video with my children to help them memorize their ABC’s. I’m no educator, but I think cannibal pigs help in the learning process. And WTTW (Chicago’s PBS station) obviously agreed, since they picked up the video for use during children’s…

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The Stopsign video

 In 2008, I led the creative development of an internal client video (Coc—who shall remain nameless) that became a YouTube sensation. Millions of views later (it’s been posted and reposted in multiple languages), it’s clear that a lot of people know what it feels like to have something micro-managed all the way into hell. It…

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Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life

 When my super talented friend, author Amy Krouse Rosenthal, asked me to record a song to accompany her upcoming non-fiction book “Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life” (now a bestseller), I quickly and happily plowed through her manuscript and wrote a song I was pretty excited about. I sent a demo to Amy, and a couple…

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Pop Psychology

 Earlier this century, my friend and director Michael Starcevich and I staged a one-man musical called Pop Psychology: The Modern Relationship Seminar Musical. It played like a sing-along romance seminar full of mostly original music—plus all original overhead slides—and it garnered lots of positive attention from critics and theatergoers around Chicago and nationwide. The show…

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Shiny Ass Pants

 The Good is a band I formed with my great friend and frequent musical collaborator Devin Arkin in the early 90’s. By 1997, we settled into our current incarnation, which includes guitarist John Scholvin, bassist Dave Rothkopf, and drummer John Goodman (not that John Goodman). In our heyday we performed hundreds of shows all over…

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