April 10th, 2009
americans love to hear about how they can either get rich or lose weight quickly so here’s my success story - as you may recall from an older post, I got a wii fit and gained some weight - well, I stopped using my wii fit completely and lost like 20 pounds!
since then, I’ve been weighing myself every morning and then I just think about the weight difference from the previous day when I think about what I’m going to eat - I get really pumped when the number goes down and really upset when it goes up and that helps me stay away from the junk food - it’s a surprisingly effective technique - dig the results
if I actually started working out, I would probably be totally awesome
Tags: chicago, wii
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April 10th, 2009
we played with the TOUGH SHITS again on wednesday night - it was lots of fun
I love those guys - I don’t think we played that well, but we’ll see - ryan’s buddies video taped it - after the show I tried unsuccessfully to pick up adam and we both crashed onto the street - I can hardly walk now - I definitely fucked something up - my hips are crooked - I’m gonna try to rig up a rope on a pulley and see if I can do a little chiropractic-magic on myself - wish me luck
Tags: asm, chicago, music
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March 25th, 2009
man - I forgot about this thing - I’ve been mad busy - did the RPM challenge - played a show with the Automatic Wedding Machines and changed the oil in scootington - anywho, my friend at work showed me a bunch of old tunes of mine he had on his laptop - I thought I had lost all this stuff in a hard drive crash a while back - I’m pretty pumped though I’m still missing a lot of songs from a few years earlier - why don’t you tickle your earholes with this old school jive?
old wesman music from his latter years in boston
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February 28th, 2009
man - I have posted in a while - busy busy busy with rpm challenge - the records almost done - you can hear it in progress here.
the real reason i’m here is to talk about google alerts ….
I have them setup for my website, and the websites for all my bands and whatnot - most of the time, it’s crap, but once in a while I find something interesting like a review or a post about an upcoming show - sometimes I find stuff from my past - but today I found this which I wasn’t really expecting and I’m really not sure how to interpret it …
PICKLE:
03: Hector Dicky Pickle s/o Francis & Jane Pickle
d. 13 Dec 1805 age 3 years 9 months 26 days
07: John Bingly d. 2 Jun 1842 age 14 years 8 months
A. Judson d. 4 Feb 1848 age 2 years 8 months
sons of Joseph & Margaret J. Pickle
Hector Dicky Pickles - ha!
and so, as the inside joke from 7th grade goes: who the fuck is hector?!
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January 6th, 2009
I’m addicted to google reader and since google knows everything about me, including, but not limited to, what I like, it often suggests feeds for me that I might like. one such feed is guitargear.org
the author (goofydawg) writes reviews of gear and whatnot - yesterday, he posted an article on theory that had some inaccurate stuff and since I’m an incessant know-it-all, I couldn’t help but post a correction - it came out more strongly than I had intended and I posted a nicer follow up with some examples - he e-mailed me last night and asked if I would like to contribute - now, I’ve wanted for some time to do some writing or teaching about theory since most of my friends don’t have as much formal training as I do and I thought this was a great opportunity so I took him up on the offer!
I just posted my first article - a brief intro to western music tonality and terminology related to chords, scales and notes - I’m pretty excited about this - I think it will be a good opportunity for me to spout off that someone might actually read (no offense, dearest loyal readers)
Tags: chicago, music, theory
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January 2nd, 2009
I always used to talk about getting an FM transmitter - not the kind for your ipod, but one that’s a few watts that could hit the whole neighborhood - I’d hook it up to my itunes and just let it rip all day - well, considering that one of these transmitters costs about as much as a pair of silver fluevogs, the odds of me buying the transmitter are slim - this got me to thinking about how much I like to make mix CDs and whatnot which all lead me into podcasting - I’ve been working on this for a few days now and just posted my first episode!
you can click the itunes link on the right and you can subscribe automatically in itunes and listen to it wherever - not just within 200 yards of my crib
anyway - I hope you rikey rikey!
Tags: chicago, music
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December 25th, 2008
yo!
dig this sweet jacket that my awesome sister got me for x-mas!
oh baby!
I also got some rad music (the jam AND the style council box sets!) and some sweet headphones and a really sweet jacket
being home is nice - there’s absolutely nothing to do except hang out in this rad house with the family - when you go outside at night it’s totally quiet
Tags: poconos
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December 23rd, 2008
check out this rad mug that my mom has had since I was a kid
it cracks me up watching my grandmother drink decaf out of it
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December 22nd, 2008
a lot of my friends are from chicago - or ohio - or boston - most of them live in or near some type of urban area - I have a hard time explaining that I really did grow up in the woods - however, it’s not totally backwoods stuff (even though my folks’ house is about 1/2 a mile from paved road) - check out these pink guns!
see what I mean? these guns are totally about equality of the sexes
Tags: anachronistic, poconos
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December 21st, 2008
oh baby!
last night was the snow angels show at delilah’s - it was a lot of fun - tons of people showed up and most of them danced - especially during the drunken 2nd set
since I’m the keyboard guy, I get wedged in the back but here’s a sweet photo of the guys that make it happen up front
in a way, I’m like the quarterback and they’re like the linemen
now I’m off home for x-mas in a few hours
Tags: anachronistic, chicago, music, snow angels
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