As of a few hours ago, the collaboration between my brother Tim, Kevin Barry and Mike Hogan is now called Easy Wind. We’ll be playing our first show at O Restaurant & Lounge on Saturday at 10pm for a private birthday party (that’s open to the public).
We’ll play our first real show at McGarret’s on Elmwood Nov. 2nd.
Filed under: Music on October 20th, 2006 | No Comments »
What a week it has been. The storm was truly something to witness. I just posted a few pics on Flickr, shown to the right. It’s day 6, still no power in Kenmore - many of the streets around us do as of 6pm tonight. Hopefully tomorrow? We’ve been at my parent’s house for 3 days after 3 days in the cold and dark at home. Thank God they got power when they did.
Jack’s a trooper, Jen’s a rock and grandparents are the best hosts to have.
Some links for you…
YouTube: Sleepy Kitty (aaawwwwwww)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsfUX0md_GM
Pathetic Fallacy on Buffalo Hardcore
http://buffalohardcore.wordpress.com/2006/10/18/pathetic-fallacy-demo/
Fantastic hosting at Media Temple - think I might make the switch from Godaddy.com for Wnymusic. Double the money but 5 gazillion times the features (SSH!)
http://www.mediatemple.net/webhosting/gs/
Jeremy Enigk has a new album out - World Waits - AMG hates it
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Ao1jqea184xs7
Firefox 2.0 RC3 is out. Using it now. The tabs look pretty but built-in spell checking for from textareas is where it’s at
http://en-us.www.mozilla.comen-US/firefox/2.0/releasenotes/
Mike Watt - legendary bass player with the Minutemen, among other things, now playing bass for the reformed The Stooges (first album since 1974’s Raw Power)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Watt
Filed under: Buffalo, Life on October 17th, 2006 | No Comments »
I just have 2 playlists on Youtube right now: Music Videos and Live Music Videos. Here’s a few you ought to check out…
Tragically Hip “Limelight”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–6lIRRaGgw
Sufjan Stevens “The 50 States”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faShVQWhzPY
Roxy Music “Remake Remodel” 1973
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8Zh-6cPH7I
Dead Kennedys “Bleed For Me”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfSoYJ0cD8Q
Frank Zappa “Dummy Up” Roxy 1973
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TqPYGWxm9E
Grateful Dead “Cassidy” Tom Synder Show 1981
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kck2Xc-GJ4
Arcade Fire “Laika” Conan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XG7A-V687U
Bad Brains “Sailin’ On” 1979″
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT-8wWrNkjw
Honorable Mention:
Monty Python - Public Television 1975
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mhcsm6CNqI
This is really cool. Recently discovered footage from their first(?) trip to America after their show started airing on public broadcasting.
Always remember: What’s good is good and it doesn’t matter what your personal genre is. What’s good is good.
Filed under: Music on September 28th, 2006 | No Comments »
According to Google, who now manages my 3 main email accounts and the aliases that go to them, I got 21,252 spam messages in the last 30 days.
21,252 =
708.4 per day
29.5 per hour
.5 per minute.
Gotta give it to Google though, I get 30 or so spam messages in my Inbox a day and rarely do I get a false positive (good email in my spam folder).
Make that 21,256…
UPDATE 10.27.2006: I’m now topping 26,000 spam messages for the last 30 days. Ugh.
Filed under: Technology on September 18th, 2006 | No Comments »
Tim and I took Jack to the HSBC Arena Saturday morning to see the Buffalo Sabres unveil their new uniforms. Jack had a great time and didn’t mind the commotion of lights and BLARING METALLICA. That’s my boy.
I actually like the new uniforms. The navy blue is right up my alley and the logo, as hamsterish as it may be, does grow on you.
Tim has some video up…
Filed under: Buffalo, Buffalo Sabres, Jack on September 18th, 2006 | No Comments »
“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.” is a grammatically valid sentence used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated constructs. It was featured in Steven Pinker’s 1994 book The Language Instinct, but is known to have been around before February 1992 when it was posted to Linguist List by William J. Rapaport, an associate professor at the University at Buffalo.
Source: Link: Wikipedia
So Bill has the excellent restaurant guide and writes wicked cool sentences. Another Buffalo (buffalo) treasure.
Filed under: Buffalo, Funny on September 17th, 2006 | No Comments »
From: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/bluetooth.htm
Harald Bluetooth was king of Denmark in the late 900s. He managed to unite Denmark and part of Norway into a single kingdom then introduced Christianity into Denmark. He left a large monument, the Jelling rune stone, in memory of his parents. He was killed in 986 during a battle with his son, Svend Forkbeard. Choosing this name for the standard indicates how important companies from the Nordic region (nations including Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland) are to the communications industry, even if it says little about the way the technology works.
I only knew the first part when I saw it on Jeopary last week, very interesting. Bluetooth is slow and a total P.I.T.A. on windows but I know of no other communication mechanism with such a cool name.
Filed under: Technology on August 29th, 2006 | No Comments »
Back in the mid-80’s I joined my first band, Pathetic Fallacy. We were a punk/hardcore/skate band with a lead singer, his positive message and 3 skate punks who could barely play the bass, guitar and drums.
Bandwagon
Expect To Fail
Results
Little Things
Gotta Be Heard
Contradictions
Instrumental
Make A Division
Spark Of Life
Coolest thing about this demo was that it was recorded by Robby Takac of the Goo Goo Dolls in their practice space and features Johnny Reznik playing the opening to one of the songs (see if you can pick it out - he really used to be a decent solo guitarist). I played on George’s drumset and was nervous as all hell.
Thanks to Derek Daniels for sending me these mp3s 20 years later - I really appreciate it!
Filed under: Friends, Life, Music on August 28th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
