http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl9iS2egnC0&feature=related

This is one of those movies that we captured on DVR weeks ago and finally -- driven by a rapidly filling hard drive -- got around to watching two nights ago. The next morning I ordered it from Amazon ( Read more... )

So first things first, we went with the name Rio Peligroso. And I like it, so there. Our first gig was an unqualified success...packed house (50-60), great response and lots of gig offers. Here, for your collective abuse, is a video of our first number, a cover of the Byrds covering Dylan:

John Doe back by the Sadies (great idea, not sold on the outcome):
http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/1198262

New Neko Case album (not her best, but I just love me some Neko): Leave a comment

Okay I admit it: I'm lazy. I don't make time to read lengthy book reviews by qualified critics. I'm a sucker for a simplistic five-star system with capsule reviews. Does anyone know of a good site where people review and comment on books they've read. Surely such a thing must exist, right?

Country band has a line-up (two guitars, bass, drums), a list of willing and excited guest musicians (violin, pedal steel, keys, vocals), a workable set-list (below), and gigs Feb 7 and March 20 ( Read more... )

This morning, the office is abuzz with people saying "Isn't it amazing to think that, this time on Wednesday, we'll know who the President is?"

Why do I doubt that?

It's a-happening. My little roadhouse-rock outfit is coming together a bit at a time. Bass player and I have been getting together on a semi-regular basis to get some songs down and to get my vocals back up to speed (I've been singing backing vocals in bands for the past 5 years, but I'll be out front in this band). We brought in a drummer last ( Read more... )

I work for a foundation that books a performing arts series at a city-owned facility. It's a cool job, the kind that inspires people to say "ooo, that sounds FUN!" And while I acknowledge that I get to do a lot of cool things - meet minor celebrities, go to swanky parties - my job has more than its fair share of stomach churning, panic-inducing, ( Read more... )

I've noticed that when people talk about zombies, the assumption is that they eat brains and little else. Brain eating has become endemic to the zombie. But is there any movie other than Return of the Living Dead (the punk-rock one set in Louisville) that specifies brains as the zombies preferred repast? In nearly every zombie film I've seen ( ( Read more... )