Recording Revisited

Some of you may recall that a while back I wrote a blog post titled “Twelve Things Your Band Should Know Before Going into the Studio.”  Well, I’ve been doing some studio work lately, and I re-read that post.  I think that prior to any future projects, I’m going to re-draft that into more or [...]

Top Ten of 2011

I often end up posting my Top Ten Records lists after the year has ended.  Usually that’s because I’m waiting on a late-release to fully sink in or I had to wait to get something on my Christmas list.  Or I’m just being lazy.  But this year, I’m ready to go early.  So with no [...]

Traditional Post Where I Bum Out My Readers (if any) a Little Bit

It’s Christmas Eve, and this year I’m getting it out of the way BEFORE I drink a vat of wine. A few years ago (I’ve lost count of how many, I’m afraid), my friend Paul died from Hodgkin’s Disease on Christmas Eve.  Paul was the bass player of a band I loved called Potter’s House.  [...]

A Love Letter to a Kinks Song

I posted the following on Facebook yesterday.  I’m putting it here too because I know not everyone who reads the blog reads every word I write on Facebook, and I want to share this for some reason. In all of the world, there are only a handful of songs that have ever brought a tear [...]

Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and then the baby looked at me.

(Post title’s a Ralph Wiggum quote…for no good reason…) Haven’t done a random post in a little bit…and my brain has lots of things in it, but is too tired to do full posts on anything…so this seems like a good time for it.  And hey look…Kaley Cuoco’s hosting the People’s Choice Awards this year…neat. [...]