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New bike

2010-12-06T21:19:00.000-08:00

Big ass Takara.

Scrams new 7" is ready

2009-09-24T08:59:00.000-07:00

My band's record came out. It turned out well. You should buy one. You can do that here: http://scrams.bigcartel.com/

Tecate

2009-08-21T14:46:00.001-07:00

New rock show

2009-08-10T23:05:00.000-07:00

two years later, my first rock show in ABQ

2009-05-23T12:18:00.000-07:00

Eight yards of dirt.

2008-03-23T23:12:00.000-07:00

After staying up way to late to play music and drink beer wit my Colorado friend, Yves, I moved eight yards of gorgeous soil into the the new planter I built in the backyard. It was brutal, especially after that night. Still, I did it and I feel like a man.

The Shatner

2008-01-16T16:32:00.000-08:00

This is pretty incredible. I thought his pinnacle might have been with Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, but I see I was wrong. Bernie Taupin looks like he wants to kill himself during his introductions.

TB

2008-01-08T23:22:00.000-08:00

My horribly compulsive obsession to steal music has again gotten me in trouble. No, I have not been contacted by the RIAA; I ran out of disk space... again. I've managed to fill up a 350 GB drive with tunes and have splurged on a monolithic, black Western Digital terabyte. And thus begins a ridiculous period of reorganization and deletion (something I should probably do before buying a new drive).

The shutdown of OiNK was probably a blessing in disguise as my rampant leeching/seeding was starting to get a little silly. At least I am very good about listening to (nearly) everything I download, but there are probably at least 30 GB floating around that have not seen the darkness of my earholes.

I don't have download guilt. I go see bands. I pay covers (sometimes). I buy the stuff I like and delete the garbage. I let musicians stay at my house. I buy them drinks at shows. I've been in a touring band. I know the routine. I don't see anything wrong with downloading albums before they are released to the public. I make my amends.

So fire up Azureus! I've got hard drive space!

January Fifth, Two Thousand Eight

2008-01-06T00:46:00.000-08:00

We had a scrumptulescent weekend. We got our zoo membership. We ordered some frames from some toothless drunken beard; those were for the prints we bought at the UNM art school sale. We carried a giant limb of cottonwood home from the bosque. We went out to dinner at Ben Michael's on Friday. We had pizza on Saturday. The casita came through as rehearsal space. Rad!

Saturday night I went out to see some rock. Beggin' for Change played at Atomic Cantina and let technical difficulties (bad cord?) get the better of them. Caught some old dudes, Rivet Gang at Burt's and was totally in to it. Back at AC Urban Decay from L.A. were awesome and felt very SoCal. Highlight of the earlobe night were the Squash Blossom Boys who ripped shit up bluegrass style. A group of talented young men with eyes on the Old Crow prize, the Squash Bottom Boys hovered around one expensive-looking microphone and took turns taking leads.

An Indian in a cowboy hat and ponytails carried in a large guitar case while I was on my way out and I kind of wanted to turn around to see him, but my beerlust had overrun $2.50 Shiner's. Up policeman alley and I met up with JB at Anodyne for Addam's Family. Home again now and trying to write.

PREDICTION: #1 Album 2008: Black Mountain: In the Future

SHAKEY PREDICTION: # 2 Album 2008: British Sea Power: Do You Like Rock Music?

Goodbye 2007

2007-12-31T15:00:00.000-08:00

Let's see if I can pull together some time to write my own blog in 2008. Not likely, since I barely have time to help Nigel post his own.

In the meantime...