Good Question is becoming a gigging machine and a staple of the Kalamazoo area! This is our itinerary for February and early March alone-02/05: Boomerang's/Up and Under ( Read more... )

Ever since winter of the year 2000, when the Supreme Court illegally handed the American presidency to George W. Bush, I have been extremely disillusioned about the validity of American politics and indeed, our "leaders". Eight years later, we can see the painful results of a moronic, puppet president and the maniacal masterminds that pulled the ( Read more... )

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Going back through five years of Live Journal entries is such a trip! It's wild how we grow and change as human beings. I never realized how much of a suck-ass I was back in the day. All worried about sounding intellectual while writing my entries, sweating over my grammar and the flow of my sentences- taking ludicrously long surveys in the hopes ( Read more... )

Periodically (especially during the past two presidential elections), I have occasionally posted articles, thoughts, and feelings about politics. I am a proud left-of-center Democrat, and I maintain the strong belief that a progressive, open-minded, liberal outlook is the only true answer to the nation's challenges and difficulties. With that said ( Read more... )

I know all you bastards were too lazy to go to YouTube and look at Guthrie Govan clips, so I brought one to you. It's not what you're expecting. Behold and be awed.

I realized as I was teaching a lesson yesterday afternoon that almost a semester's-worth of time has passed since I graduated with my percussion degree! Man, time flies like a motherfucker when you're having fun; that's exactly what my life is. One big ball of excitement. I really have an ideal life. I live with the love of my life in a cozy ( Read more... )

Steely Dan is such a ridiculously great band, it's almost wrong. At this point in time, I'm convinced that Donald Fagan and Walter Becker are incapable of writing a bad song.

A Steely Dan record should be issued to every infant at birth.

From "Zappa" by Barry Miles: '[In 1972] Zappa wrote a new playlet, Billy the Mountain, a virtually unintelligible fantasy about a mountain that gets a royalty check for all the postcards that have been sold with his image. He decides to celebrate by taking a vacation in New York and on his first day's travel he levels Edwards Airforce Base.'

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