1) I show up early to the Volunteer Park Conservatory to take some photos of the flowers there. Having left my camera in the car overnight by mistake, as soon as I get in the place and get ready to shoot, the lenses and camera fill up with condensation. So much that it would have probably taken an hour or more to acclimate. After trying to warm ( Read more... )

More bad news. Coltrane died this weekend.

Please alternate her catalog with great MLK speeches tomorrow.

The year has been full of sad events thus far ( Read more... )

It will be a good show, to boot!


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Having had some of the best gigs in heavy music, including Earth, Melvins, The Whip, and High on Fire, this is a man who still manages to have the last laugh.

Pure genius:

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This is a 4-O'clock Rock show at the Sunset Tavern in Ballard. Doors open at 4pm. Surely you'll be past that hangover (and therefore, one more of those pesky New Year's resolutions) by then.

Black Noise Cannon is doing a special 1-hour set in the headlining spot. I play drums in the band. Not quietly, either. Nor fast ( Read more... )

Although I've not been doing much these past few days besides missing, crying my face off, and draining snot, I have added another brilliant film to the "Bring the sad" family. Thank you, NetFlix, for making it possible for me to not have to leave the house.


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"Medicine Bottle" - Red House Painters ( Read more... )

I heard these words the other night in, "I'm Your Man," a documentary about Leonard Cohen. Interesting thoughts on work, art, and living from the man himself.

Sometimes when you no longer see yourself as the hero of your own drama, ... expecting victory after victory, and you understand deeply that this is not paradise... Somehow ..., we somehow ( Read more... )

... who know these three records.


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