i found this bike on craigslist – i rented an i-go truck and headed up to libertyville to pick it up
i’d never really ridden one before (once – a long time ago when i was way too young to ride one i crashed one in upstate new york) so i had dude fire it up – it looked great – paul thought it was a good deal so i snagged it – the rest is history
yeah – I know – mine is one of those 95% of all blogs that was abandoned but I figured I’d give it another shot
there’s a lot to report – a new motorcycle for starters but let’s start with the new band FEMALE MOTORISTS – it’s just me and nicole but we do OK – we had our first show last night at the FIRESIDE BOWL – the flaizes and dan the fan came which is pretty cool – everyone else is a jerk
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
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
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?
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?!
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)
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!
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
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