We've been listening to the all Christmas Carol station at work, which is the most efficient way I know to induce holiday fatigue. This is what inspired the figgy pudding post the other day, and I'd like to thank Erin Hughes for pushing that into a more productive direction. Listening to every professional musician who has ever lived singing the ( Read more... )

I've had the occasional fleeting reason to consider depressing songs -- not just songs about heartbreak or disappointment, but songs that sweep kick your sympathy out from under you, do an elbow drop onto your sense of empathy and then grind your tear ducts into the gravel and broken glass before taking your wallet and running away with it and this ( Read more... )

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Sunday mornings I work for a radio station running the board for the church services. In order to avoid most of the problems that plague live and pre-recorded broadcasts, each is preceded by a sound check. One of the churches prefers to simply put on a CD for this, rather than speaking into the microphone ( Read more... )

I have a harmonica. I have no idea where I got it, but I've known I have it for ages. I'm not sure exactly why -- I've been meaning to learn an instrument, I just saw Blues Traveller in concert; the possible reasons are... well, there are a few to choose from -- but I've decided to start learning to play it. It appears I got lucky; it's a Hohner ( Read more... )

Blues Traveller did their free show in Elgin tonight. dragonjaze and I went, found a nice cool place to stand in the throngs of bopping white people, and enjoyed the music a hell of a lot ( Read more... )

Blues Traveller is doing a free show here in Elgin on Saturday, August 2. Anyone want to come with?

Men (and I'm sure women, but either I don't see much of it or I'm oblivious to it) do and say things all the time that come off with this creepy vibe that they don't intend, especially in romantic situations. We've been known to make huge asses out of ourselves just to curry the momentary favor of women we don't know. Sometimes we blurt out "I ( Read more... )

After attending the Jonathan Coulton concert last night, I've come to a conclusion: I like Paul and Storm more than JoCo ( Read more... )