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Gather convo on “Room In Your Heart”, my EP’s requisite love song, and my top 10 love songs

Here’s a posting I wrote on Gather.com concerning one of the songs on my Decca EP, “Room In Your Heart.” If you want to see the fascinating comment conversation that follows, and a list of a lot of people’s favorite love songs, click here. Though I wrote “Room In Your Heart” especially to sing with [...]


My first byline in Wired! How to Comfort an Axed Coworker

So it may not be a 5000-word feature, but it’s still my first byline in Wired Magazine! This piece appears in the newest print issue (February ’09, 17.02), and also on the web right here. Thanks to Joshua Davis and Catherine Dibenedetto for seeing it through. Here’s a tiny excerpt (which is about half of [...]


Gather Conversation About Being Drunk, About My Song “Drunk”

So they’re doing a bunch of stories for me on Gather.com, which hosted the Decca contest I won, and one of them is a thread about strange things people have done while drunk. Makes for good reading. Enjoy.


Welcome to my blog!

Dearest Friends and Enemies, I’m putting this welcome, best-of-tommywallach.com post up here at the top of the page, where it will live forever, so that I can keep all the other posts beneath it live. Here are links to some of the more interesting posts on this page, to get you started in the magical [...]


Live Chat on Gather.com about First Tracks contest and EP

I’ll be doing a live chat with folks on Gather.com on Monday, November 12th from 12:30-1 PST. If you’d like to join the conversation, or else review what was said, just click here. Heck yeah. You like my live chat, don’t you?


Here is my official Decca Page

Check it! There isn’t very much on it, but isn’t it official looking? I love being on there! For those who don’t know, I recently got signed for an EP with Decca. And the EP is out! You can buy it places! Well, not real places, but digital places! Sweet. And here’s the full list [...]


The first major review of my EP. And it’s good!

I love you, Glenn Gamboa. Because you wrote a review of my EP in Newsday magazine, which, according to Wikipedia, has a daily circulation of 377,000. That is amazing. I’ll include the whole review here, because it’s short: Glenn Gamboa | DROPS January 6, 2009 Newcomer Tommy Wallach clearly idolizes the gorgeous, clever piano-pop of [...]


How often does someone review your literary reading performance?

Okay. So technically, it wasn’t all about me. This is a reading I did with John Hodgman (of Mac commercial fame) and Neal Pollack. I spent most of the night catering to Neal as if I were his slave. It was a shtick. Anyway, this guy apparently thought I’d suck, and then I didn’t suck [...]


Coverage in the Los Altos Crier? Who’s famous?

That’s right. I’m all kinds of famous. Check this out. Mixing it up Written by Breena Kerr Wednesday, 31 December 2008 A couple of weeks ago, I attended a monthly mixer at Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center. The event, held on the third Thursday of the month, is one of a limited number of social [...]


“Breaker” – McSweeney’s – My First Published Story

Oh, the good old days, when I was a McSweeney’s boy. This story appeared on the website when I was still a scared little high schooler. I still think it’s pretty solid. I’ll include the whole thing here, but feel free to click the link and see it in its original glory. B R E [...]