Well this is just too weird: Bob decides to form a country folk combo right about the same time my surf combo morphs into an Americana band. I'm hoping to make this sort of a rough-and-tumble roadhouse band. The idea is to take rock and country music from various eras and sub-genres and filter it through a Flying Burrito Bros-meets-the- ( Read more... )

Most photos of me onstage look tremendously stupid. I kinda like this one, so I'm sharing. Behold: I rock!


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San Diego's gay neighborhood is called Hillcrest and it is home to the best fucking ACE Hardware known to man. I just returned with ( Read more... )

Sorry...I haven't been a very good LJ friend lately, but I've been listening the The Duke Spirit's "The Step and The Walk" on a constant loop for about 3 days. It's been very distracting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkymJsrUkt0

After years of playing in original rock bands, I’m toying with the idea of doing something (for lack of better term) commercial. This move is inspired by a number of different things including my recent trip to Kauai, my love of ‘60s surf instrumentals and bachelor pad kitsch, a bad case of 'summer-itis,' Bob’s musical endeavor, and the thought ( Read more... )

My coworker insists that computer monitors can't display anything with a higher resolution than 72dpi (and therefore, she knocks everything down to 72dpi no matter what it was before ( Read more... )

Wife is in Florida for the long weekend, so I loaded up the Netflix queue with movies I knew she wouldn't be into. This usually means older films. For some reason "Cool Hand Luke" has been popping up a lot lately so I thought I'd check that off my list of "movies everyone but me has seen ( Read more... )

...what happened to our Elton John report?

Some days I can't believe I get paid to horse around like I do. My performing arts center recently presented a one-man play called "Zero Hour" - a celebration of the life and works of Zero Mostel. Zero Mostel was in the original Broadway productions of ”Fiddler on the Roof,” “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” and others. He was Max ( Read more... )

I tell my wife that I take these pics for insurance purposes, but truth-be-told, I just like lining up all my toys in one place.


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