Today is @itsplainasjane ’s birthday.
Feel free to let her know that she is the absolute best.
I love you forever, Janie.
From Pittsburgh to Pacentro and back again.
like everyone else in the world right now, The Boss continues to fill my heart and make me believe any and all of it are still possible. even if we’re just dancing in the dark.
da Pacentro, con amore.
- casasanta
You’ve come a long way, baby.
Back in Italy now. Pacentro é perfetto. Wasn’t prepared to arrive to so much snow, but it’s gone now, and the cold is barely a memory.
I wrote a record here in Italia. Endlessly grateful to my friends who are helping me get the sounds in my head on to tape. It might not be for anyone else, but right now it feels right to try and make something for myself.
Spending my days making art, being still in the house, seeing people I love here, and doing my best to honor what this place gives to me.
3/3
Salvatrice d’amore.
As always, chasing love, inspiration, community, friendship and snacks. Winter and snow continues to follow me. But sun and warmth seems to always be close behind.
Went to Chicago to help @blindadamfederal track some songs. @dangitband saved me more times than I can count in the recording process. Felt so beautiful to get to be in the room while beautiful people sang and played their hearts out.
4 songs and 4 days later I was in LA. @the_gozz_cometh was keeping us honest and documenting it all. @sarrahjocarkeet was feeding us incredibly well. @kennycarkeet was lifting every idea I had to another level. And the Carkeet kids kept showing me over and over again what kindness really means.
2/3
We want what we want and we want it now.
I’ve been at it everyday — chasing the feeling of being alive — and boy do I still believe it’s within our reach. We gotta walk tall baby, or don’t walk at all.
Nashville. Chicago. Los Angeles. Pittsburgh. Pacentro. Everywhere. But still trying to remember that inside of yourself, right now, is the only place you have.
For @itsplainasjane and I, our time with @loudobnoxious@saylavie@carrlynbathe@hammerme@violentgentlemen@tommorello@irwinopolis@heidiology_la every minute spent in their company felt like the greatest hug you could ever received.
1/3
Gennaio, prima parte:
Beginning with 2 beautiful weeks in Italia.
Pacentro, Sulmona, Caiazzo, L’Aquila, Vasto.
Ending with navigating winter storms in Pittsburgh and Nashville. I am grateful for it all.
Trying to lean into the moments of love, positivity and community that can be seen everywhere if I allow myself to look—in a world where the doomscroll is beyond our worst imagination by the minute—while also working to not channel the accompanying anger and pain that comes with it towards anyone but the real enemies of our humanity can be difficult, but it’s not impossible.
Titration has been the North Star within my somatic therapy work. It’s hard to not want to rush oneself too much in an effort to “make sense of” or “complete” feelings. When in reality the body just needs time, grounding, and regulation.
As well, I have been trying to push aside my fears and create for the joy of creating. Hopeful to find the peace to be able to share the things I’ve been making for that very same reason.
I still believe we can give each other the grace to grieve and the strength to fight back.
Together, forever.
2025 capitolo tre:
Its helped inspire me to create things. I touched a guitar for the first time in a long time, I cried over losing the calluses on my fingers, but enjoyed it and I actually wrote some songs on that guitar in Pacentro. I started working on a collage art magazine thing — not sure if any of it is for anyone but myself at this point — but I am hopeful to create more in the new year.
If you or someone you know would like some help with your songs, need a bass or guitar player, or production/recording assistance, get at me. I don’t have an agent, label, or manager or anything, and I’m not sure what my emotional capacity will be, but I’m curious to try something new.
Take care of yourselves and each other in 2026. We can survive it all together. Let’s believe in each other, believe in real love and embrace spontaneity before it’s too late yall!
2025 capitolo due:
Songs I liked:
Wet Leg - cpr
Lambrini Girls - bad apple
Hayley Williams - ice in my oj
Sharp Pins - popafangout
Margo Price - don’t let the bastards get you down
Alien Boy - you want me too
Allgernon Cadwallader - shameless faces
Tyler the creator - sugar on my tongue
Turnstile - time is happening
LS Dunes - machines
Cancer Bats - backstab the rat race
Catbite - remediate
BadCop - straight out of detox
Destiny Bond - peace as a punchline
Ginvera - spacco tutto
Neoprimitivi - sul globo d’argento
Sabrina Carpenter - manchild
Rumjacks - eye for an eye
Ecca Vandal - cruising to self soothe
Kendrick Lamar - not like us
Stick To Your Guns - keep planting flowers
Things I Watched:
F1
Good Fortune
Wake Up Deadman
Mickey 17
Springsteen
Stranger Things
The Bear
Shorsey
Chad Powers
Only Murders
And a whole lot of Bobs Burgers
Things I Read:
Bird By Bird - Anne Lamont
The apology - V
Healing Trauma - Peter A. Levine
2025 capitolo uno:
I hope everyone is surviving the holidays and doing their best to be their best despite the endless list of evils trying to make life difficult for humanity.
Another year with much to remember and reconcile, much to forget and forgive. We started the year in Italy and I found myself in Pacentro 3 times in 2025.
Jane and I fed our souls in Modena, the vegans took a cheese tour in Emilia-Romagno, cheered on Ferrari in Monza and il Delfino Pescara.
A lot of time in Pittsburgh with the animals, a storm tried to smash our house to bits, we took brief but lovely visits to Nashville, D.C. and Philly, saw some friends get married, I got to play a lot of hockey and some golf.
In my somatic therapy work I’ve been working on my nervous system to allow me some space to be more open to art and music, so here’s a list of some of what I took in and enjoyed:
