spontaneous expressions of mediocrity
Yesterday’s Pleasant Valley extravaganza turned out to be pretty darn cool. We kicked off the day at KDVS for a little guest spot on Robyne Fawx’s “Saturday Morning Folk Show.” While we were there, we took the opportunity to set up a camera and film a few of the songs for YouTube posterity.
Steve Jobs just served the world a big fat slice of DRM reality pie:
The biggest, most exciting remark was to urge the industry to put pressure the Big 4 to stop requiring retailers to sell DRM protected music. He backed up this statement by saying that Apple would jump at the chance to sell music in the iTunes Store without DRM protection.
I’m thinking big changes are afoot.
Twenty years ago on this day, a new phase of my life began. My parents gave me a shinny, black electric bass guitar. The year was 1986. I was 13 years old.
Hair care or digital audio? I got 12/14. How ’bout you?
There is quite a bit of mystery surrounding the concept of web development frameworks. The framework is old hat in the programming world. The user friendly, DIY nature of web design exposes this concept to people who otherwise wouldn’t have heard of such a thing.
Yesterday, on two separate occasions, I was inclined to clarify the differences between a web framework and PHP. The first situation could actually cost me a nice chunk of change. The second was nearly a slobbering geek-out session over web development smut, but was quickly thwarted by my boy running off into the pizza parlor with a large group of strangers.
This week we open for the Derailers at the Palms, then go to Humboldt to play three four hour sets, in as many nights. Last night, my Band-Aid® crapped out on me in the second song, and I ended up with this…
Yeah, that’s blood in there. Yeah, that’s an important finger. No, the [...]
I’ve never been much of a Beach Boys fan. I was always turned off by the Pet Sounds fuss made by music nerds. Today, however, I finally listened to the pinnical album. And it only took a few short minutes… I still rather listen to Rammstein.
Hey. You want to see something really bad ass? Look at this.
Somebody shoot me up with something and stick me on a plane to Chicago! Big Black is playing!!! and Killdozer… and Didjits… and Negative Approach.