I was on my weekly C.U.N.T (see you next Tuesday) zoom call when I realized that my 54th birthday is less than two weeks away. Last year I threw a party to celebrate the day and my birthday present to myself by Bryan Christopher Moss.
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I saw Los Lobos and The Mavericks about a month ago and it was an amazing night of music and dancing. I started a post/poem in my head that night and although I've forgotten most of it, I feel the need to put down what I do remember before it's also gone ( Read more... )

...even non-guitarists can instantly identify Mark Knopfler's playing from just one bubbling filigree from Sultans Of Swing.

Sultans of Swing was playing as I left the house this morning and it brightened my entire day. I played Dire Straits non-stop at work and am the better for it! Kim's visit earlier this month for Alex and Shannon's wedding ( Read more... )

I saw Toad for the first time in the summer of '93 with Doug at the Blue Note in Columbia,  MO. Little did I know that it would turn out to be our first pre-dating date.

We were just friends back then and I had a major crush on the stage tech for the show, which never amounted to anything more than friendship. I had just bought my little orange ( Read more... )

Last night was phenomenal ( Read more... )

I'd honestly forgotten how much her music moves me. I know that I know all the words to every song and I listened to all 6 albums over the two days before the show, but that still didn't prepare me for how much her voice and music moves me in person ( Read more... )