I became friends with Stephen Mejias a long time after he became friends with my close friends.
A few years back he joined my old school chums Pete, Dan and 2-Dick in their new (and current) band, The Multi-Purpose Solution. For whatever reason, it took me to move from NJ to California then to Ohio for me and Stephen to become good friends. Maybe we were scared of each other. Maybe we were freaked out by the fact that in a bizzarro world we could be brothers, I don’t know. But now we’re tight as two peaz in a pod.
At any rate, I’m happy to announce Stephen as the newest contributor to donewaiting.com with his column, Bridges + Tunnels. As Stephen puts t: “Fueled by oatmeal, hope, expectations, and disillusionment, these are Stephen’s musings while he commutes from Newark, NJ, to New York City and back, an honest attempt to bring together the worlds of living and loving music to the worlds of culture and ideas.”
Cool, right?
You can get the brand new Bridges + Tunnels here.
Check it out, and then head on over to the donewaiting.com message board (there’s a new B+T folder) and say hello to Stephen. He goes by the name
Brother Stephen, but trust me — it’s the same guy.
Stephen’s a great writer (a lot better than me, trust me), a great musician, and a great guy. I’m excited to read about music from a musician’s point of view, and not just a hyperfan like me. On top of that, while we love a lot of the same bands (Yo La Tengo! Wilco), we also have very sharp disagreements about others (The Strokes), so it’ll be good to have someone on the site who disagrees passionately with me.
Back to plotting my war against Denovo.