You know, it's been years since I've cared anything about seeing any bands live. In fact, so far I think I've only seen three shows since 2000. The Killers about 5 years ago, The smashing pumpkins show back in 2008 and Pearl Jam just a couple of weeks ago. And boy this year has turned out to be a doozy. Besides Pearl Jam, I'm also seeing the ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here blogging in bed because tonight a drama unfolded of epic proportions that rocked my tiny world. I could make this long story short but screw that. It all started about 2:00 in the afternoon when my friend Rita and I, upon checking the satellite map, noticed a hair-thin line of clouds forming down near Wichita, KS. As the afternoon ( Read more... )

The year was 1980. I was 11/ 12 years old that year, my birthday being in August. two movies came out the year before that were to have a profound influence on my childhood. Roller Boogie and Corvette Summer. Two stories of young people following their dreams and finding love. In 1980, a year after their release, these movies would be shown on the ( Read more... )

Sometimes things happen in such a cool way. Monday night I was sitting at home watching the finals of Olympic ice dancing. A French couple took the ice, the announcers introduced them and their music and my mind was a million miles away. There was something familiar about the dramatic orchestration they were skating to but I couldn't place it. I ( Read more... )

Okay so yesterday I bought The Missing Manual and I'm now in the process of becoming friends with the new iMove interface. I just hate having to learn all this crap all over again. It may be an opportunity for me to put on another Digital Cafe lecture at work though. I enjoyed my last one and it looks good on my review. Also, I just saw Shaun White ( Read more... )

Rant on. Am I the only one who thinks the new iMovie sux a55? I could crank out an awesome movie in a matter of minutes with the old timeline interface but this new one just does a whole lot of shiite that I don't need and only serves to confuse me. There isn't an intuitive function in the whole damn thing. Do we really need a scrubber in a free ( Read more... )

It's snowing today. It's snowing and I'm actually not bothered by it. Maybe a bit of my childlike fascination with Winter has returned this year because it's been a long time since snow was fun. Maybe it's because this Winter is very much like the Winter's of my youth. For so many years now, winter seemed to have tempered to a point where there ( Read more... )