Week 131: Joan Manuel Serrat

Maybe because my childhood continues to play in your beach and hidden behind the cane sleeps my first love, I carry your light and your fragrance everywhere I go, and bundled up in your sand, I keep loves, games and sorrows. Me, having on my skin the sour taste of the endless tears [...]

Maggie May

Wednesdays have been fruitful for your author. My daughter was born on a Wednesday and I’m proud to announce that my niece was born within the hour on this very day. Her name is Maggie May.

Please now fondly recall the English folk song (and not the Rod Stewart song, and not the Beatles [...]

Is it time to get drunk yet?

other great post headers: don’t know, don’t care or I got nuthin or In a world… or How it all started or How did I get here?

That last one was the one I was going with this morning when all was new with the day and I had a post outline going in [...]

Public Service Announcement – Festivals 2009

“Things became both silly and morose and after a few hours I retired to the lanai where I am now, plucking possible yuppie fat from the snouts of my dogs and watching sunlight’s first pinking of the Coachella Valley, the valley in which Palm Springs lies.”  Ten NAP points will go to anyone who [...]

The International Festival

Went to the International Festival today.

In the past I’ve seen folks like Richard Thompson, Dave Alvin, Femi Kuti, Ralph Stanley, etc…

This year I came home before Los Lobos played, and only saw/heard a little bit of Flaco Jimenez.

Ireland was the spotlighted country this year.  Lots of men in kilts.

I am [...]

Through a Scanner Brightly

I thought this was perfectly damned delightful.

From the info:

This is dedicated to all fans of Queen and hey let’s not forget about Mike Myers and Dana Carvey of Wayne’s World.No effects or sampling was used. What you see is what you hear (does that even make sense?)

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It feels like this week has gone by so fast. I’ll be coming back today (that’s tomorrow for you–I’m in the future, suckers) and there are several things I still want to do, but the foot blisters are an impediment at this point.

I put a bunch of music on my phone, thinking [...]

Week 130: Choke Dr. Ronald Chevalier Loudness

A few days ago I watched the movie Choke on DVD. Choke is based on the book of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. But although the book is maybe my favorite Palahniuk book, the movie is total crap. I couldn’t finish watching it. When I read the book I couldn’t put it down, [...]

A Little Known Fact

Hey guitarists, did you ever wonder why a right-handed guitar is a right-handed guitar? I mean why do we strum with our right hand? Does it really matter which hand does which –both fretting and strumming take equal amounts of technique.  

It’s true and the answer lies not in better guitar playing but in [...]

Life in the Suburbs

Per Mr. Wednesday’s request, a tiny bit about living in suburbia. First of all, it is not magical. Now, on to my truth…

In short, moving here was a freak out as I am much more comfortable with old houses built before the 60s and the neighborhoods that go along with them. Not that [...]