Our band, The Bureau has recently been nominated for the 2006 St louis Music Awards (sponsored by PlaybackSTL and KDHX) in the highly competitive "Indie Rock" category.
As such, we're being utterly shameless in our get-out-the-vote efforts. If you'd like to vote for us, signup here. It's one of those things where they email you an activation, ( Read more... )

No, it's not by mirthday, but this is just to cool ( Read more... )

March was nuts. Just nuts. We played six shows with the band, which was crazy. Most of them were good, but that just wore us out. We're up for a more normal pace now, and prepping to record a full-length this Summer. Personally, I've been up and down. Life with weneh around is awesome, and I've got a really good bunch of students this semester, ( Read more... )

ENOURMOUS BRAIN

Mentok the Mind Taker aint got nothin on me. Yes, I KNOW what you're thinking.

(The distortion filters on my laptop's camera are simply too much fun.)

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Crazy week, so much going on. Teaching moving along. Pulled of some tricky skill shots at work and nailed them. Some new songs shaping up with the band. Had two positive conversations with Kathy, I think now that she'd settled down some we'll actually pull off "friends" :) Heard from etherdots, who longtime readers may remember as "the girl in the attic ( Read more... )

Stewart: Rob, obviously a very unfortunate situation. How is the vice president handling it ( Read more... )

Had a "worthless" day yesterday. Maybe not exactly. I was niether the all day pointless do-nothing that I used to become too often on my days off, nor was I the effectual go-getter that I'd been for the past month or two. I did actually accomplish a lot, but it was totally scattered diffuse effort. I couldn't get myself to focus on many tasks ( Read more... )

Awesome weekend. Delightful times with weneh continue (see her page for details). Got to spend time with an old friend from way back too. Last night my Dad comes over and basically solves all the problems that were holding me back from insulating my attic with the power of his superior life-experience. Then we hung out, which is a treat these days ( Read more... )

I stayed up later than I should have watching the bootleg new Doctor Who DVD's that bitterlies left over here last Summer. The aforementionned new DVD Player handled them just fine ( Read more... )