Today is......

My 36th Birthday. Nothing exciting to see here. Taking a day off tomorrow so I'll have 4 days off and NO gig. Sweet.

My Wedding Reception

Hopefully my friends wont act like this when we get married:

Friday

Kick ass, in about an hour,I get to sit in traffic and go home from the desk. I should be cleaning up projects but I am toast. Received two good pieces of news this week: My brother, author of Closest Exit, will be visiting me in September while on business. This also means that his company will have a rep here in Indy so he will be here more often. My brother has always been one of my heroes. He never spared me a lesson or two about anything practical and always made sure I was using what brain cells I have left for the greater good.
The other- The night club I work 2 nights a week in is installing house sound. I was pretty much giving up on the place. The designer/installer came in to talk to me and we are old friends. it's going to be really nice. JBL Vertec, crown power, DBX processor to protect from the annoying DJ's on the weekend blowing up the subs-of course an actual sound engineer doesn't understand the "art" that a DJ is responsible for....yeah? Go-fuck-your-self-you-too-talentless-to-learn-a-real-instrument-ahole.
Sorry, only met 1-2 "DJ's" who had any respect for gain structure and clipping.
Its going to be my first weekend w/o a computer. I hope I survive. Maybe I can surf via blackberry?

Last Pic of the mac

The death of my mac has been hard. I was cleaning out the camera phone and found this analyzer shot. Pink noise. A week before the loss.

Mailbox letter godfreak.

Way to go chief. I am going to buy you a level and a clue.

My mac died

I am in mourning. My mac died. Apperently it will not withstand a 3 foot fall. Please feel sorry for me. If you want to donate a G4 or G5 to help, please feel free.

new phone and other useless stuff

I recd a new phone from my great employer. I had purchased a Blackberry 8703e-the latest and greatest- last November. I was the first person to buy the Sprint monster in Indiana. After I figured everything out with no help from local or nationwide tech support, I enjoyed the little bastard. A real qwerty keyboard, work emails read at 2am while at a gig, pictures of my Fiance, dog and other assorted thingys.A great solitaire game for the boring gigs or the toilet.
My better half-living a 5 hour drive away- decided to get a sprint cellphone, so we could talk for free at anytime.
About a month ago, the boss announced that we were switching carriers. This annoyed me for two reasons:1. I purchased a $500 phone. 2. My fiance has 1.5yrs left on a Sprint contract.
Well, we are figuring out what to do, when to talk on which phone,(she has a work cell) and we'll get by until she moves here in-87 days(she's counting the days)
Anyhoos, my new Blackberry- it kicks ass. All of the little quirks with the old one are gone now. The best part- I bought a 2G micro SD card for $23 and I put the favorite songs on it. I am NOT going to clutter it up with band break music. I have a small(6G) ipod that is used for that crap. My mac has about 25G of music on it so I call it my $700 ipod.
So, thank you Blackberry and phone carrier company I won't plug here because they are all evil, and most of all my employers who put up with my bitching.

Stupid Chicks

Here's another favorite of mine. People who decide to try and talk on the phone in a loud-live music room. They get pissed off, so they walk to the door- giving ME a dirty look- and open the door and stand in it and have the conversation. Never mind that's its 11 degrees out, or its 110 degrees, THEY ARE ON THE PHONE! Or, never mind the people trying to get in from the cold or leave.

Barry Bonds

I am not much of a sports guy. I follow the interesting topics and watch big games. Most of my sports knowledge is acquired from sitting in bars watching TV with the sound turned off. Therefore, I have to figure out what the hell the ESPN guys are talking about.
So I just checked CNN.com, and the lead story was Mr. Bonds breaking the 756th home run. Good for you Mr Bonds. Now tell everyone else to go to hell. I was prob about 8 when Hank Aaron set the record. I think I did a book report on it in the 4th grade. The teacher chastised me for my writing skills. go figure.
Anyhoos, why not give Mr Bonds his due? Until the steroid scam is proven, give the guy some credit. Besides, did anyone take any awards away from Keef Richards for being under the influence during a recording or performance? How about Hendrix, or Joplin, or Morrison? These people screwed up so bad they didn't make it past 27! Barry bonds has played in the major Baseball league 2/3s of their life span!
I will personally give anyone the title to my '04 explorer if you can sit at a baseball park, with an automatic pitcher throwing you straight down the middle, for a week, and hit 500 home runs.Give the guy some credit for 5 minutes.

Ugghh

So what happened to time? What happens to the days when you could do nothing but lie around watching Back To The Future on HBO for the 754th time? I guess I know to many musicians who do NOTHING all day. They are constantly broke, never go anywhere. But there's a part of all of us who are envious of thier lifestyle. No places to be except for the 3 nights a week travelling-at best-12 miles to a gig. Nothing that needs to "get done" everyday but maybe high score on Halo2.
I have a home, a lovely Fiance', dog, and soon to have a cat also. My free nights and weekends are spent doing things to the home, remodeling type things. I can't go out much anymore since the majority of my income is paying for the "lifestyle" [inside joke-C.D.] that I live.Then there's the other half of my friends. Money was never a problem for them so working was more of a hobby and household repairs and maintenence are left to simply writing a check and its taken care of. This leaves them every weekend to go somewhere either local, or to fly to Vegas for the weekend. I guess I am middle class....

Low end kicks ass.

LSD

why are lead singers such a pain the ass? Is there something about having to put yourself in front of everyone to make you a big penis?