There was no internal debate about this. There’s one thing that I am, and that’s real. What I’ve been saying and singing all along has always come from the heart. I knew I’d lose my job. Accepted that. This is a job I took a big chance to get. This is a job that I … Read More
My Life
My Instagram and Twitter Account
Never had either until recently. It’s a bit strange. I put some photos of food on my Instagram page (is it called a “page”?) and somehow some friends, etc. found out about it and “followed” me. Then you have to decide whether to “follow” them back. If you pick some and not others, are the … Read More
An Amazing Woman and My Hospital Bill, or Lack Thereof
I met with a woman at the Hospital where I was recently a patient, this morning. She was kind, patient, and honestly interested in helping me as much as she could, and boy did she help. I don’t know if she has internal access to the Medicaid system or not, but it was almost like … Read More
Vague Account of Hospital Bill (So Far?)/Vague Account of What Happened and Why
No surgeries. Numerous tests. Intravenous feeds. Food. Room(s). 2 days/nights, and two days later, 2 days/nights. 4 days/nights total. Bill, so far: $103,000. Bed and food alone: $12,000 per day/night. That, I suspect, is what they would have billed the insurance company. I had no insurance, so they are billing me that. There are numerous … Read More
My Road To Recovery
My inner circle know some details, but basically, beginning in around 2019, I made the mistake of choosing to under eat and I developed anorexia. Over the years, I’ve gotten better, gotten worse, but never really committed to healing, until now. This morning I stepped on the scale, knowing the reading would be low, but … Read More
Twitter, and also, My Claim Against NYC
I have a twitter page. It is @barrynowbliss. Whether I will keep it up or not I do not know. Maybe. https://twitter.com/barrynowbliss Long story, but in essence I filed a claim against NYC asking for back pay for 13 of the ongoing (18, so far) months I was banned from working due to their shot … Read More
I Plan To Record a New Album in About 6 Weeks.
14 songs, coming in at around 40 minutes total. (Unless something changes.) I’d set a recording date for next week but my go-to man (Brian Speaker) lives in Germany and will not be here until April. A lot of the songs are about current events, at least on the surface, so the sooner the better. … Read More
Stuff, and a 2019 Journal Excerpt
I was surprised to find out recently that I do not have a copy of the first CD I released in NYC in 2000. I’ve no digital copy either. As for journals, I have regularly gotten rid of them. Not that I have always kept a journal, but when I have I’ve not held onto … Read More
Still Banned In NYC For Refusing the Shots
The city of NY technically lifted the “vaccine” mandate on November 1st 2022, but they allowed each private employer to continue to discriminate against the un-shot-up if they chose. My guess is that is what my past employer did, decide to carry on with the mandate. I was a very good employee. In the three … Read More
Physical Dangers For Artists That Use Their Real Name
I won’t go into every facet of this, obviously, but the price one pays for expressing one’s self honestly in a way that can be easily traced to it’s source, can be anywhere from miniscule to deadly. Often it may be both, an escalation of danger as time goes by. In my case, my real … Read More
In Regard to a Recent NY Supreme Court Ruling
A few friends, one a lawyer/songwriter, have been emailing me about this, bless their hearts. They are happy for me. It is definitely good, however I was not a city employee. It was the city’s mandate that my employer obeyed however, so I blame the city and it is the city that I’d like to … Read More
A Few Reasons Why My Life Could End Today and I’d Be Fine With It
I am 57. Been around a while. It’s been a life with a lot of material/Earthly disappointments and failures, and it’s been a life with a lot of spiritual/artistic successes. In other words, I’ve succeeded in the ways that matter, all said and done. I do have a few regrets, but I didn’t know then … Read More
My Situation and Some Thoughts. September 16th, 2022.
If you always are worried about your career and what the masses think of you, you are always going to go along with what is popular and in fashion. The “vaccines” were popular and in fashion. These people will only admit they were wrong, or apologize, if the fad changes so much that not apologizing … Read More
Telling you here: Glad I Refused Those Shots
I was reading about a news anchor that had a health problem of some kind, speculated to be the beginnings of a stroke, while on air. I looked at the comments and saw where some were talking about the possibility that people were having heart problems as a result of having taken the “vaccines” and … Read More
Planning on Leaving NYC
I moved here in 1999, to make music, and music I made. I’d finally found a job, albeit another low-paying one, that I liked enough to where I had no intention of ever quitting unless I had an opportunity to do something better. After renting rooms for years, decades, I finally was contacted about a … Read More
Not Allowed to Go See Adam and Toby Tonight
Adam Green and Toby Goodshank both have shows at The Sultan Room in Brooklyn tonight. According to the website where tickets are sold, “vaccination” (for Covid) is required. NYC is a crap town. I have known Adam and Toby for over 20 years and have played numerous shows with both of them. To be barred, … Read More
Jesus, Pagans, and Saving it for a Song
Either most people do not understand what peace, dignity, and love are, or they purposefully choose cowardice and depression. Whether or not the Jesus we have heard of was a real physical figure (more evidence suggests he was than I realized) is, in some ways, irrelevant. it’s the message many have resignated with, along with … Read More
I’d be Allowed to Return to Work If I Were a Professional Athlete
When I saw recently, where an NBA player here in New York was not allowed to play, due to his refusing to get the (dangerous) Covid “vaccine”, while simultaneously “un-vaccinated” players from out-of-state teams were allowed to come to New York and play, and when I saw that some people were upset, I thought maybe … Read More
Questions Answered: More Sidewalk Stuff
“Is the labelling ”anti-folk” still relevant?” For me, yes and no. I was never really against folk music, but then maybe none of the others were either. There’s a story about it’s invention, but basically it caught on, and the press used it. The word ended up basically meaning “assertive folk”, or “punk folk”, but … Read More
More Antifolk Questions Answered
“Would you use the word nostalgia looking back at Sidewalk days?” Well, if someone is looking back nostalgically, that would be that. If they are looking back in a detached, perhaps clinical way, then it would not. I don’t claim to have never indulged in nostalgia, though generally I see it as a weakness, not … Read More
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