I'm taking a drumming lessons, teaching guitar lessons (for free lunch), studio is close to being finished, doing research into business licenses, bought and am reading a lot of books on music theory and history (including a neat book on music documents throughout time - nice to see what Aristotle had to say about music).

So, getting there.

I will only be "that guy" to several close friends of my youth. These years have only meant something to me because I've been there before, and less to them because they haven't, and as they all blossom out into the real world, I'm not there anymore, after spending years with them stuck in training. There's only so much I thought I could do but ( Read more... )

Yelp, the concepts of friendship, futility, future, fear, establishment, "What can I do with my life?" and other nonsense, placing myself in the time line, "this... cigarette haze," black and white movies, responsibility, financial management and stocks and brokers and "is Exxon Mobil something I really want to own part of," flight cases and ( Read more... )

Highlights from SF so far ( Read more... )

Before leaving for San Francisco I made contact with a singer who does some folk work, and hopefully we'll be working on some stuff when I get back. I have a lot of stuff in mind and she's excited to work with me - so yay! Grill lady got back to me about playing music at Grill, record store guys talked a little more, and hey, Cristina is wonderful ( Read more... )

Tales from the Darkside is possibly the best bad television show I've seen yet. Produced by Richard P. Rubinstein and George A. Romero as a "Twilight Zone" type show - not as good as Twilight Zone, not as stupid as Outer Limits, not as produced as Tales from the Crypt - and it's phenomenal. Hell, this episode alone is directed by Tom Savini ( Read more... )

Car fails, laptop dies, phone dies, bike hopefully-only-temporarily dies, credit card dies, books get ruined, Windows dies, desktop computer dies, backup hard drive with my music and photos from years probably dead, slowly realizing Grill lady isn't probably going to get back to me about playing records, realizing that Toxic Ranch if they called ( Read more... )

Walking into the Grill tonight - "Where's Anthony and Matt?" - "Oh, Anthony's moving to Phoenix so they're going to stop doing the record thing on Monday nights. Maybe weekends though." - "Don't suppose you need a replacement? I could come in, have plenty of records and some turntables." - "Definitely, we need someone to come in." Maybe I could ( Read more... )

Been a month since I've said anything ( Read more... )

Large format darkroom for sale but will never buy - Pet adoption running further away and never on my mind - Peugeot to fix but radically time consumptious - Vinyl explosions and too much pay dirt for plastic - Facebook stupidity and why bothering - Depression - Tired - Drunk with too much drinking friends and not enough sober - Too many cigarettes ( Read more... )