I'm trying to figure out what to do with the next few years. I might get out of the IT business entirely, and out from under my security blanket. I'm looking for options.

• Full-time drummer. Sure, but not here.
• Recording engineer. Yes, but I might find it frustrating to be the guy on the other side of the glass all the time.
• A masters in CS. Yeah I ( Read more... )

National Bookstore's buyers must be improving. There was a decent selection in the SF section yesterday. When I'm in their SF section, it's usually with an attitude of "oh well, since I'm already here I may as well ( Read more... )

It's a bad sign when you make an alcohol run, your bassist picks up a bottle of rum, and you say, "is that all we're drinking?" and you walk over to the ref and pull out four 1-liter bottles of Red Horse ( Read more... )

I played at Rural Carnage III last night. It was a blast ( Read more... )

Salindiwa's album sounds amazing, I have to say. Their music is pretty dense and complicated, plus they're all amazing musicians with huge bags of tricks. You could hear everything in the mix. I don't know how Angee Rozul did it. The depth of the mix was incredible! Whatever they spent for his time was completely worth it ( Read more... )

Last saturday the 7th, I played the Tan-Tan wedding reception at the Century Park Sheraton. For the longest time we were calling it the Warner-Aileen gig because we knew that Aileen was Aileen Tan, but we had no idea what Warner's last name was. Then when we finally got there, we figured out why the people who booked us were just saying 'the Tan ( Read more... )

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I didn't think our gig tonight would happen, but apparently it is, with some minor lineup changes. So I'll be at Gweilo's tonight just when I thought I'd have another quiet night at work or home. I don't mind ( Read more... )

On the way to work today, we saw one of the items that made the front page news this morning. A gigantic, four-sided metal billboard structure, cubic in shape, between 20 to 30 meters to a side, had been ripped off its foundations and had crushed a large bus atop a cloverleaf interchange. I haven't driven by there yet, but I hear there was a lot of ( Read more... )

Insanely busy with musical work these last few weeks and for at least another week. Mostly rehearsals with the odd gig or recording session thrown in for variety. My chameleon genes are becoming active as in a single week, I might be playing D&B one night, jazz standards at a wedding the next morning, 80s rock in the evening, and death metal the ( Read more... )