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 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!
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
xi xi made me a surprise party – most of my friend’s are lame, and didn’t show – but the ones that did are totally awesome
we started out at some party for her work people then we went to the ashland (*ding* *ding* – dead giveaway that sophie was involved in the planning!) but dude at the bar was a fucking weiner schnitzel and would’ve serve me (because, obviously, I’m 20) so we split and went to rose’s which was approximately 100 million times more awesome anyway – see!?
they had a rad jukebox (I played an entire rolling stones greatest hits record along with a bunch of other awesome stuff that was way cooler than the songs that flaiz picked but I can’t give him a hard time since he at least showed up)
also, the bartender was nice to me – instead of not serving me, he gave me a free birthday cocktail (bourbon & 7 – baby!) – then sophie and I played the worst game of pool in the history of drunk people in bars playing pool
we played an unnannounced x-mas party at ricochet’s (rick o’shea’s – get it?) – it was fun – I wore my onesy that xi xi gave me – a good time was had by all (especially me!)
you can actually see me in some of these photos too!
snow angels season officially started last night – we played on WHPK‘s Pure Hype – it was lots of fun – we brought a bunch of neat looking broads with us and they danced the whole time
look how happy I am!