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About me: Musician. One who writes the occasional poem, though not a poet. Reading: Just Finished:
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9/29/2001Shouts out to my beloved wife. She turned me on to some really hip Christian music. Most of the stuff I've heard is keyboard driven nastiness, or Stryper style hair glam. But on the WOW '99 cd, which she recently purchased, there was some great stuff on it, sounding like Maxwell, Gin Blossoms, Counting Crows, Suzanne Vega, Sarah McLachlan, all stuff I dig. I'll have to rip and post some tunes for your perusal.
9/27/2001The Bagman has a new design. Much better, and much more Mac friendly. (I know he really cares that his page is viewable on a Mac.) Also, thanks to the Wop for clueing me into why his page was black. Stupid me. And also wop, cut and paste this code into your page:
Patriotic Editorial Cartoons. Sent to me by Steve Waterman. Some of them are near tear jerkers.
9/25/2001Google Search: mother took me to the woodshed for a spanking That's right, ladies and gents, look up that handy phrase on Google, and Billy Rhythm comes up on page 5. I don't think it was exactly what they were looking for. Also found in my logs: "spanking technics." I think they mean techniques. Technics makes turntables.
We lost power for about an hour last night. It was actually kind of nice. We brought out the candles, and a couple of oil lamps. Then I remembered I had a propane latern downstairs, so I fired that up. What stunk was: no music. I did have a radio, but FM stinks these days. And the only AM I get was featuring Tom Martino, The Troubleshooter. Also, we had to put off making the pizza. But when it was done, my proscuitto, green onion, and fresh mozzerella pie was deliciosso! (Or however thos crazy Italians spell it!)
9/24/2001Attention WOP! I prefer the page with the white background over the black.
9/21/2001The Forgotten GHOST Pedal! I've started that page. Here it is in very basic format.
There's some interesting discussion conerning the latest Diana Krall CD over at the Diana Krall Fan Club message board. They mostly agree with what I heard. Lipid orchestra with no real jazz fire equals one snoozer of a CD. I heard her 3rd CD at Sumit Sound in Bangor. Garry turned me on to her (pun intended!), and the album was great. I went out and bought her first two CDs, which were jazzier than "All for You." The next album (#4) was called Love Scenes, and had some great jazz love songs, mostly ballads. Then When I Look In Your Eyes was next. More ballads, more strings, more elevator-ey. I've only heard samples of her new CD, and let me tell you, those made me not in a big hurry to buy it. Looking at what other fans are saying about it, my first cursory listen may proove to be correct.
The Bagman... I Bag! has given Billy Rhythm a link! I'll get one up for you too, Chris. I need to put Adam Up's button back on too.
The Greasy WOP has had two updates in one week! Crazy! And what's this about him playing in a metal band? His last band was an alternative rockablilly group called, in what I feel is one of the greatest band names of all time, The Breakaway Kings.
I was given a server case for my computer, so I spent last night pulling everything out of my old machine, and putting it in the new case. But I had this strange problem. Every time I buttoned the thing up, the power wouldn't come on. So I'd pull the top off, unplug everything, plug the power in, and she'd fire up. So, I'd plug everything back in, put the top on, and nada. I figured it had something to do with the top or the faceplate causing a short. Well, I figured it out this morning. The mouse. Whenever I plug my Intelli-Mouse Optical in, the machine won't start. Replace it with a regular mouse, and all is well. Strange, huh?
9/19/2001So tonight, the Midcoast Community Band put together a concert of patriotic music. One bad part: they have no drummer. So they called ole' Billy Rhythm. And you know what? I did o.k. for no rehearsals. They did drop off the music to me yesterday, but there was so much of it, I only looked at a couple. Well, they decided to do all of it! I realized quickly that I don't read cut time marches as well as I did in high school. But, if you weren't a drummer, and weren't looking at the music, you wouldn't have known. I hit all the endings--that's pretty good.
9/18/2001Here's my WFL kit, all dressed up. To bad it had no place to go... The keyboard player didn't show, remember?
9/17/2001This guy is the best police officer to ever walk a beat. Really, he is.
So my buddy Harvey, the retail manager of the best music store in the world (Northern Kingdom Music, Rockport ME, 207-236-8721), lives out in East 20 Miles From Nowhere. He has an Internet connection with Midcoast, but can't get above 24,000 k. So, he put in a Dish Network with satelite Internet. Now, he had Dish before, but it got struck by lightning. When he installed the new Dish, he needed to get a 31 on the signal meter, but he could only get 29. Well, he played with it some more last night, and sent me this poem.
9/15/2001Norton Anti-Virus is the only Symantec product you should buy. I just had a customer download Norton Internet Security. When she was done, she couldn't get on the Internet at all!!! My buddy Jim once ran Norton System Works on his Mac. When he was done, his operating system was gone! Yup, it worked his system so well, it cost him a new hard drive. Stay AWAY!
Ah yes, last night's gig. Due to a scheduling snafu, the keyboard player had it in his book for Saturday. So that left a drummer and a stand up bass player. Having no chords makes it hard to play jazz.
9/14/2001Nice old Ludwig Cocktail drum, with pedal and working snare mechanism. I want a cocktail drum too, and don't care about make. But I do want a double headed one with snares.
Update: Budget says no way short of a bank robbery that I'm taking home that Be-Bop. What budget says is "Better get those Vistas you just bought cleaned up so you can sell em!"
So my father asked me last night why I didn't do an update yesterday. I told him there wasn't much going on, other than this Ludwig Be-Bop, that I'd like to buy and recondition. Dad said "Well, I don't read the drum stuff anyway." What??? What do you read here, Dad. 85% of this stuff is either drum-y or ebay. Sometimes I may get personal, but not usually.
9/12/2001As I mentioned, I got a link from portal.eatonweb.com. It seems the author hand selects blogs, puts them in order alphabetically, and by category. (I'm listed in the music category. Anyway, in the alphebetical listing, I'm after Time for tea, but before Timeshots.
9/11/2001Dear Bill;
eatonweb portal
9/10/2001Props out to JP. He set me up as a Beta tester for a new web stats package. I gained password protection and a ton of other features, but I lost cummulative stats. So in order to find out my total hits, I have to go back and add them all up. But I think it's a good trade.
John Travolta gets pulled over in Rockport for speeding to Denny's before it closes. Swweeet.
9/8/2001Happy Birthday to my brother Mike!
My next door neighbor's daughter Cassie brought her computer home to put a network card in it for college. They called me and asked if I cut put it in. So I arranged for them to pick up a card, which they brought to me with the computer: a PII, 233, Windows 95, 32 megs of ram slothful beast. This thing ran like my old Pentium 83 with 12 megs of ram. Man, it was slow! So while it was here, I suggested they let me kill som old files, and do a defrag. On this poor little 4 gig hard drive, over a gig was temp Internet files! Man, I thought my folks were bad! So I cleaned it up, and did a defrag overnight. Restart the bad boy this morning, and get the blue screen of death! What up?! Four hours, 3 formats, and a spare hard drive later, I got it fixed and all the files put back. Not how I wanted to spend my Saturday morning.
Ain't this a purtty kit!
9/7/2001Just out of curiosity, I checked my calendar for when I had a full weekend off. No gigs, no work for MIS. Last time was the weekend of May 19-20. My next weekend off is September 22-23. That's 17 straight weekends. There are 14 weekends left this year. I have to play 11 of those, and that doesn't include my MIS schedule. And so, I don't get to play much paintball with the boys. Sorry.
Please Plant This Book by Brautigan shows up on ebay again. Why can't I ever have a wallet full of money with no plans for it?
I think I found my winter project. I want to recover my road kit from its current plain black, into a super groovyPurple Satin Flame! Cost: $150. Pretty cheap, I think. And, I'll be the only boy on the block with a purple satin flame drum kit!
Here is a Ludwig Black Beauty I found on ebay, at not a bad price. The guy mentions it needs cleaning. Cleaning! My goodness, who lets a fine instrument look like that? Man, my Starclassics are 4 years old, and look like brand new. Ask Barry over at Lo Z Studios. Man, this snare looks like someone left it overnight in a bucket of spit!
So I set up thePearl Rhythm Traveler last night at the church. It's a cool little kit, but it's not going to win any awards as far as sound is concerned. But for playing in a church that holds 60 people, and draws less than half that to Sunday evening services, it should work fine.
9/6/2001Blogdexter! This is a little something the Genius Biz Stone is doing. It's a web stats package designed for blogs. I just signed up for it, and I'll let you know how it works. (It's got to be better than my current stats, which have been down about a month.)
9/5/2001Ron here at work has started using Netscape 6.1. I hated 6.0. Really. It was from Satan. No joke. But 6.1 for Mac os X seems like it may be a little better. I'm trying it now. I.E. 5.5 for Mac has some crazy bugs, so I would just as soon switch to something else.
9/4/2001So while my sister was on vacation, she bought me a hermit crab. And my Mom bought me an African Dwarf Frog to match Julia's. We named the frog Michigan Jay, and the crab Ben Kenobi--you know, the hermit from across the dune sea!
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