On a warm June evening in 2011, I rode in a rickety bus along a dusty Punjabi highway to watch a show on the India-Pakistan border. It may be odd to

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Check Me Out On This Week’s Walking The Earth Podcast

I was recently a guest on the wonderful Walking The Earth Podcast. I sat in a tiny, sweaty recording room in Chiang Mai with the very-entertaining Mike Margolies and talked about

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“The Perfect Relationship” Debunked

Over the past week or so, my social media newsfeed has been blowing up with this "Perfect Relationship" meme. Aside from the problematic and potentially damaging idea that a "perfect

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I Wrote A Poem

Strung out on zen, I wrote this on the final day of the last meditation retreat I participated in. That may help to contextualize things a bit. It's been lingering on my hard

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My Interview with Former Beatle Pete Best

Randolph Peter Best cuts an unassuming figure onstage. Wearing a white moustache, a frizzled taft of white hair, a boyish grin and drooping eyes, today he looks more like a

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The 5 Types of Fans You See At Every Baseball Game

We're approaching the end of August, and, like every year, that means the MLB season is starting to get interesting. Teams are jostling in the standings for playoff positions, and

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Scientific Proof that Guitar Players Are More Attractive Than Everyone Else

The guitar is one of the most popular instruments for heterosexual men to play for a reason: the wealth of anecdotal evidence that suggests women love a guy who can play the guitar. Whether it's

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Learn How To Play Guitar By The End Of The Week

In 1962, a little-known Liverpool rock act called the Beatles auditioned for a recording contract with Decca Records, but were rejected on the grounds that "guitar groups were on the

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Why So Many Rock Stars Die At 27, Explained By Science

When Kurt Cobain committed suicide in a Seattle suburb 20 years ago, the idea of the 27 Club entered the public consciousness. "I told him not to join that stupid

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9 Rock Bands That Show What It Really Means To Be A Brother

WHEN WORD LEAKED last week of Malcolm Young's hiatus from AC/DC, it signalled the first time in 40 years that his younger brother Angus would be playing alone. Anyone who knows

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