As excited as I am to go to Grand Rapids and celebrate the Mighty Narwhale's release of their debut album, I am a little sad that it is falling on the same date as this year's Ypsilanti Songwriting Festival. Why should I be so sad? Well friends, the two main guests are Paul Burch and Jon Langford. The last time Paul Burch was in the Ann Arbor/ ( Read more... )

There are those bands in the world that I've given up trying to turn people on to for being too brash or experimental or just odd, but that struck a chord in me at one point or another. It happens, of course, and I just take those records, keep them as mine, and not worry about how they are perceived. I was really sad when one of those bands, ( Read more... )

Since my move to Ypsilanti a week ago, I've resigned myself to staying at the new place, reading books, working on music, and generally staying out of the public eye. Partly this is to save money (no more going out to the bars for a while) and partly because it's been a while since I gave myself the opportunity to just simmer in my own thoughts ( Read more... )

I have this thing with online journals; specifically with keeping one. That is that I made the rule for myself when I first started this journal that I'd never post anything "friends only" or "private" or whatever. I find it a bit foolish to turn to the internet and post thoughts and ideas that I wouldn't want the internet to read. But now the ( Read more... )

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I just realized, in replying to a friend's message, that I have somehow pulled off the planning to play in five, possibly (and most likely) six, different live musical performances, with as many projects, over this Friday and Saturday. Six? Damn. I'm unsure why it happened, but the offers to play the hired gun has morphed over the years from the ( Read more... )

I had not yet packed, but I had taken Jeffine: the Ghost of the One Legged Lady in to get an oil change and ended up changing the transmission fluid, the differential oil, and the coolant as well to prepare for our Wednesday morning departure for Hammondsport, NY -- oh and how she purrs now! To make some dough for the trip, Todd Leopold offered ( Read more... )

Area Musician Solidifies Stereotypes Inferring All Musicians Are Morons

And he does so nationally, no less.

Hmmm... I just did an interview with the Associated Press regarding the popularity of MySpace. Funny. I got to plug the band, at the very least.

Absolutely, without a doubt, the best blonde joke I've ever heard/read.