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Hey Folks, As many of you will know through my performances and content, I absolutely love freestyling and improvising. Even in elementary school, long before I knew about hip-hop, I recall making up silly songs on the spot to make my friends laugh.  Fast forward 2 decades and I've been doing a weekly freestyle show "Spontaneous Sundays with AllOne" for nearly 2 years now and constantly improvising rap in my shows.  This blog was prompted when a fan named Ryan sent a very complimentary email asking simply "HOW DO YOU DO IT?" So I thought a lot about it and polled an audience of some of my favorite improvisers that I know personally for their thoughts and responded with a version of the writing below.  I think anyone can freestyle if they practice and still I think it is one of the most impressive and amazing performances to watch whether it is musical, rapping, poetry, dance, acting or comedy.  Here are some thoughts.  I have so many personal and distant ar...

“Jolly Jane” (Criminal Episode 38) written by Bruce A. Pandolfo 4/4/17 Taunton Lunatic Asylum for psychotic patients, Toppan, “Jolly” Jane, do not mistake her awful plain commonplace innocuous, aged image for soft and safe, She's got insane deadly habits, devil's advocate, God she played arrived here after she offed the Davis' at their Cape Cod estate She's admittedly authored the death of more than thirty by inoculation Boston training at Cambridge aimed at a nursing education, her opiate experimentation lead to disqualification she left the eve of her graduation never received certification I'll review my scattered statements to ascertain what the case is ... The horror born Honora Kelley to an alcoholic father “Kelley The Crack” pot, wack-job, I had jotted “may be the fodder”, A tailor, the tale goes tried to sew his eyelids closed, lost it, lost mother to the illness she's fraught with though she fought it with no...

Hey AllOne family, The pre-order-amble: It has been some time hasn't it?!  Well, you have have heard, I am releasing a new album soon ( "I've Been Thinking..."  on May 3rd), I am planning an east coast tour, among other things and a lot has been happening!  This reminds me that I've been meaning to rekindle my relationship with this blog!  I post on social media daily and end up feeling that this blog is an aside to all of that or is only deserving of "really grand musings or giant events" and inevitably akin to writer's block (blog?) I end up sharing nothing at all!  So I'd like to talk about one of my goals and share a bunch of great things that have come of my endeavor to fulfill it! Filming before sunrise with Austin Sandick for an as-yet-unreleased video for our song "Cardiac Compass (path to preservation"  One of the goals of this year (and always) was/is to release more video content.  What exactly does that mean? What...

Thanks for joining me, AllOne family!!!      While I've been working "behind the scenes" on my new album "Rapologues" and my short story collection "Water Coolers & Camp Fires" and other such personal creative endeavors, I've taken it upon myself to do a few external projects with talented friends.  One place that I've met a lot of ambitious and personable audio/visual artists, business folk, creative types is a new gathering called "The Rendezvous" that was started by my brilliant friend and collaborator Pete DeMaio.  It's sort of a "networking group", but more on that later, as it grows and is able to invite and accept more and more people to share ideas/resources and help one another achieve their goals.  One opportunity that came my way was the chance to listen to and do a write up the Dinosaurs in Vietnam's 3rd compilation "Long Island Excavation" .... lets get into it!  The project is free to d...

Hello Friends! I know I've been inactive on this blog, but trust me, it's the only place in my life that I've been dormant!  2015 has been super productive so far and I've been involved in a lot of projects, (excitingly my forthcoming album "Rapologues" (release date TBA) and my new book "Water Coolers and Campfires",   "The Vigilance Committee's EXIT A HERO" and I've attended and participated in several incredible concerts! One way to keep up with me daily is at my new AllOne Instagram page ( follow me @allonevoice)!!  I will post later about all the great things that have been going on but I post today to review my once-tour-mate and always-good-friend Alexa Dexa's new album "Year Of Abandon" , out May 15th! ORDER IT BY CLICKING HERE!  ...and I'll be performing at her record release show may 15th as well. Here is a link for info on that show: Alexa Dexa Album release show .   ...YEAR OF ABANDON... When my...

HAPPY NEW YEAR friends! Hard to believe it's 2015 already, although it is easier for time to seem like it happened quickly AFTER it has transpired.  I hope ya'll have had a safe, memorable and happy time celebrating!! I want to thank all my family and friends new and old for contributing to a special year for me! Anything you're proud of that happened in 2014? Anything you're hoping to accomplish in 2015? Here are some resolutions/goals for 2015: -Finish and release both the "Rapologues" album and my first book "Water Coolers & Campfires" -have more of my work published (poetry or prose) -Make an official AllOne website -Release more video content (of all sorts) -Continue to read/Write/workout every day -Spend more time with family  -use my phone less and/or more like a phone -learn from everything/everyone -be loving, gentle and present -be open to new experiences -don't fear failure, only inactivity 2014 ...