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This is a daily log of whatever happens to cross my mind. The topics are extremely eclectic. Sometimes political, sometimes pensive, sometimes analytical, sometimes humorous, sometimes absurd, and often disturbing.
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From iTunes:Last two CDs by local Seattle band, ShimBrent Amaker & The RodeoThe single "Bound for the Floor" by Local H (circa 1995)...
JOSW Day 2-3: Crash & Restart in Munich
After our dinner, we managed to have some more bier at a small bierhaus directly across from the hotel. Although it was a Saturday night, and a cool looking venue, it was almost deserted. Not sure why that would be. Maybe it gets crowded much later, ...
Don't vote for Pedro
Tonight, I had the "fortune" of hanging out on the Kirkland waterfront, where the yuppies go to eat overpriced dinners. I went there with a few friends, because we'd just got done playing music. The place we went, if I recall correctly, was called Th...
Choosing your battles
Someone once told me that every opinion and belief that I hold tends to be extreme.And this was a revelation to me. I guess I have always been aware that I am animated, and that I can definitely debate a point for quite sometime. But hearing that, an...
Chaos Theory
A butterfly flaps its wings in China...And the cats walk across a Casio WK-401 keyboard in Seattle, causing it to launch into "Demo Mode" at some arbitrary time between 9:30am and 8:05pm, playing entire compositions of every conceivable genre of musi...
The most important device
It occurred to me this morning, as I had my first overseas Skype chat, that "devices" play an interesting role in our lives. From time to time, we go through different objects that become the most important device in our lives. Just thinking back, fo...
How did I manage to miss so much?
How did I manage to spend my teens and twenties listening to Bananarama and Huey Lewis when I could have been listening to The Jam? I want to attribute it to small town America. But I didn’t grow up in a small town, really. And there were plenty of...
Obsession with The Rolling Stones
For the past however many months, I have been totally in the land of the Stones. And there's really no way out, except for complete indulgence, overplay, and eventually musical fatigue. You'd think it would be hard to say "The Rolling Stones are one ...
Looking at the masterpiece through the veil of the incomplete
This is the first time I have been involved in the recording of a full-length CD. I have played on a few EP's before. I could go on a tangent about terminology such as EP, LP, etcetera, but that probably would not be fantastically interesting. Suffic...
Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band
Well, for the past however many years, it seems, the artists who have performed at the Super Bowl have not failed to impress. I can't remember when the transition occurred. I think that maybe the year that the whole Janet Jackson debacle happened, it...
What do Devo & Jodie Foster have in common?
Well, if we play the Kevin Bacon "6 Degrees of Separation" game, then of course, you could tie Devo to Jodie Foster just as easily as you could tie Newt Gingrich to Anna Nicole Smith, or Michael Jordan to Josef Stalin.But for this one, we only need t...
Coveting
I covet that guitar. I covet those pedals. I covet that amplifier.Though I have so many guitars, and so many pedals, and so many amplifiers... I still want that one. And that one. And that one. There's one that is just like two that I have. Just the ...
Rock-and-roll Jesus with a Cowboy Mouth
Tonight at The Tractor Tavern, in Ballard. Cowboy Mouth. Two parts rootsy, if syrupy southern rock, 5 parts self-indulgent revival.Many years ago, perhaps in 1998, I was told "Go see this band! Cowboy Mouth! Best show ever!" It was in Boston, at The ...
