james hearne

So The Better Half and I, for no reason other than it's getting cold out and we seek excuses not to leave the house, have decided to watch the AFI's 2007 Top 100 American Movies list, in reverse order. We watch a movie every Monday, and another one if the time allows. We also may add in some/all of the movies dropped from the 1998 list, if we get so inclined. Movies movies movies. Brief thoughts on each in this ever updating post...

#100 - Ben Hur: Boy howdy is this movie LONG. They could have knocked an…

Slightly forgotten in the hubbub of the June 2 release of "Through Private Wars", was my brief thoughts on the last of its songs, track #10, On Yer Own.

This is a song I barely remember writing. I came partially awake one night, in the dead of winter, with (apparently) a story to tell, and I felt my way to the bathroom (the only room in the house with JUST A LITTLE bit of light) and scrawled this lyric sheet into the nearest notebook. Went back to bed, went back to sleep, and woke in the morning with no…

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“Through Private Wars” hits the streets (or at least the internet) tomorrow, and I’d like to take a moment, in the final inhale before the grand exhale, to recognize the people who helped it come to be. For all that this record does right, thank them; for all that it does wrong, blame me. 

David Andersen was, I think, the first musician I met after moving to the Hudson Valley, and also my first new friend up here. He answered an ad I placed…

Leading up to the June 2 release of "Through Private Wars" (available for pre-order now), I'll be posting brief thoughts on each of its songs over the next few weeks. Today, track #9, Two Lanes.

This is my current favorite song to finish shows with, though it continues my unstoppable impulse to end songs on the IV chord, which tends to leave people unsure if it's actually over. If you've noticed my overuse of ellipticals, it stands to reason that my songwriting tends to trail off mid-thought, just like my…

Leading up to the June 2 release of "Through Private Wars" (available for pre-order now), I'll be posting brief thoughts on each of its songs over the next few weeks. Today, track #8, Guy Fawkes Day.

I’m a ruminator in temperament: I prefer baseball and football to basketball or hockey because there’s time to savor, to stew, to ponder, to consider. The narrative unfolds, play by play, moment by moment, a slow river of developments emptying into the sea of “what actually happened.” As a writer, while I…