Birthdate 11/7/85
Hometown: Woodbury, MN

Although, I’m disapointed about my cousins permanent leave from the band, I refuse to let it get the best of me. I feel that in my 3 years in Radically Strapped, that we have learned alot, and matured both socially and musically.

When you are writing for an acoustic CD, you may find that expressing yourself is alot easier. Without anyone else judging me, I can write whatever I want, and how I want to write it. I think that whoever listens to my tracks, will really enojy them, keeping in mind that I am not putting anything on the CD thats not straight from the heart. On the CD, you will find songs about Love, Friendship, Life, and more...Basically what anybody can relate to...I hope that you will find it enojyable...

Lastly, I would like to thank everyone who has ever supported Radically Strapped. I will be surprised to see any fans listening now that we arent playing “plugged” shows, and I understand. But I need to express fully that all the music im writing now is straight up, and I think you guys will enjoy it even more.

With Josh, Radically Strapped was one of a kind, most definitly, but now we must live in the present and press on.

Thank you.

Before The Stars

Counting, all the times you fled
and all the times you called and said
That the tears would be over...
That you would come home...

I know I should have counted my blessings
Instead I took it all for granted

Before you
I was unhappy
And after you
I was the same
Before the stars
There was nothing
And then you came...

Rembembering. all the times we’d share
I’d run my fingers throughout your hair
and kiss your lips, this feelings here
I miss you

Instead of me,
you’d take two more
Walk right by me,
and to his door
Kiss him and
watch me die...

I’ll be gone

Before you wake,
with me I’ll take
Memories of you with me
I’ll miss you...



Dark as Black

Life was as dark as black ever is
Then her lips grazed his
His heart on his sleeve, reason on leave
His hope laced with her uncertainty

He lays in is bed, and plays his guitar
He listens for the phone ring
She sits in the dark, her eyes open wide
She thinks of his smile, and looks to confide

A boy and a girl
looking to pass through the storm
and they will do it
Together
Together

She chews on her hair, to swallow her fears
he grabs her hand, and locks onto her eyes
They realize that they, are all they see
It’s okay

Life was so dark
Life was so bland
Until he grabbed her hand
Now they will smile
And all the while
Fall into heaven



Give The Ghost

Thinking back to the day we lost you,
lost the one I wish I’d gone to
In three days, It’ll be three years,
since your silence, yet my tears

still remain.

Frozen to my face, in permanent ways
and how your breath, that night embraced
and swallowed deep, sent you away
without doubt, to a better place

The way you’dd glue yourself to that chair
Flip on the box and patiently stare.
I can only hope to be half of what you were.
But those are only dreams...

In my life, I will try to show
that you taught me half the things I know
about life, about everything
and how I love to sing.

Fly away...
 

Top 10 CDs

1.) Slick Shoes - Wake up Screaming
2.) The Ataris - So Long Astoria
3.) Thursday - Full Collapse
4.) RXbandits - Progress
5.) Saves The Day- Through Being Cool
6.) The Ataris - End is Forever
7.) The Ataris - Blue Skies, Broken Hearts, Next 12 Exits
8.) Dashboard Confessional- The Places You Have Come to Fear The Most
9.) Finch - What It Is To Burn
10.) The Starting Line - Say it Like You Mean It
 

How Evil?

Would it be so horrible
If I asked just this of you?
Would it be so rude
If I ask you this one thing

Believe in me

Can I trust myself
to care this much?
Can I live through you?

I wouldn’t invest a dime in me
But at least im alive...

How evil would be
if I do this one good deed?
Fall for you...

Walk away from me,
as I tug at your heels.
Let me go, I wont do this again...

Hearts are sighing their last breaths
Bleeding black and blue, all but red.

Hearts are crying their last tears
Little do they know that their fears have
just ended...

You think that I’m alive,
But I’m more dead than
You will ever know

I love you
Deny me
Watch me returm
Thats how it works...



In the Headlights

Now, when I fade from white to black,
The determination from my eyes
dies and disapates.
Into the night sky,
Into the blind eye.

A package at my door
One that opened me.

Like a deer,
In the headlights of your eyes
You showed up and ripped my life in two
With the passion of two lovers first kisses
Under the lumination of the moon

Staring at my feet,
Like I often do
I followed my eyes from the floor
Only to see you,
Staring at me
Please just look away...