I Love Music

I'm home sick from work today. And this time I'm actually sick. Just a little sore throat, no need to worry. (insert blowjob joke here). Anyway, my cousin Kevin, who I call Cousin Kevin, sent me the link to Pandora.com and it rocks. It's a pretty simple idea and I'm sure there are more like it out there on the ol' "internet" but I love this one. Right now I created a Ramones / Green Day station. They have a ton of music I haven't heard, which is cool. You should check it out. I also still frequent allofmp3.com to download stuff cheap. Speaking of music, I still need to buy some good equipment for recording. I have a decent vocal mic and condenser mic now, but I need a small mixer with phantom power (I wasn't even sure what that WAS until yesterday when a co-worker who works at a studio told me) and a good sound card. So far I have whatever Dell had that was the best they could give me. But it's still only a mono 1/8 inch input. So, if anyone has any suggestions where I can get stuff for cheap, let me know. I really want to be able to record stuff well. Right now everything I do is okay, but there's still a lot of background hiss and such. When Erika and I move, I'm gonna try to soundproof my computer room and see if that helps. Right now I think a lot of the computer humming is what you hear in the background.

I'm gonna be playing some acoustic stuff for the FAWM showcase coming up Sunday, May 21st at the High Noon Saloon. More details on that later. So far I think there will be about 6 Madison songwriters who made it to the 14-song mark and we'll each play about 4 or 5 songs or something. It should be a lot of fun!

Movies and such...

This is frickin sweet.

E and I saw CSA this weekend. Stands for "Confederate States of America" and it's a mockumentary about what the country would be like had the South won the Civil War. It was awesome! Funny, yet frightening as the same time. I recommend it to all! It's playing at the Orpheum in Madison. In the same little theater that BORD played a show in once!

Speaking of movies, anyone seen Wet Hot American Summer? It's a comedy few have heard about, but I thought it was frickin hilarious. It's made by a few of the guys from that old sketch comedy show on MTV, The State. I loved that show.

I also love Netflix. I can see what my friends are watching and how they rated stuff. And make fun of them when they give Miss Congeniality 5 stars.

I watched "Big" on AMC last night. It was that DVD_TV thing, where they show fun facts about the flick on the lower half of the screen while it's playing. Pretty cool. Did you know Harrison Ford applied to be the main character? haha.. man, I couldn't see that. Robert De Niro, too! I love Tom Hanks. He's so god damn happy all the time. I hear he's the nicest guy in Hollywood. I'd be second, if Hollywood would give me a chance.

Speaking of Holly Wood, that's the name of my good friend's fiance. Sweet, huh? My best friend is also getting married, but not until next year. Crazy shit, I tell ya. I always thought it would be weird when my really good friends got married, but it's really not. There's not much difference between that and just dating and living together. Just that piece of paper you get, and you have to buy an expensive-ass ring! I hear the tax benefits are nice, though. I wish them the best marriage has to offer, like oral sex whenever you want! (I've been watching too much porn lately).

I read this article about people approaching 30 and how you have less friends. I guess that's true, but the ones you hold on to are the ones who truly rock. Rock on, friends. You rock.

We know nothing.

Every once in a while people get the impression that mankind has discovered everything it possibly can on Earth. I mean, there are so many billions of people spread out everywhere, how could we miss something? But in fact, we know nothing. These two articles (crater and mouse-squirrel) are pretty exciting. It blows my mind when shit like this is discovered. Kick ass.

Also, we are but mere infants when it comes to where technology can take us. We think of chamber pots and aquaducts as pretty primitive now, but in the future (the future, Conan?) people will laugh at our silly little "internet" and how you have to "type" with your "hands." This article reminds me of a quote from BTTF2: "You mean you have to use your hands? That's like a baby's toy!"

Here's lookin' at you, kid

I finally saw Casablanca. What a great movie! It's a classic for a reason. And Ingred Bergman is hot. Now I know where Rick's Cafe (the Madison music newspaper) got its name, and where the line "Play it, Sam" came from. Although I always thought it was "Play it again, Sam." But, they didn't say again in the movie. hmm.. I also understand about the line "We'll always have Paris," which in Red Dwarf is "We'll always have parrots." haha.. Anyway, I like knowing origins of things like that. For years I had no idea where the line in UHF "This means something; this is important!" came from. I just thought it was Weird Al being, well, weird! I have a friend who knows the origin of a lot of English words and phrases. It's always fun to ask him about things. I know there are plenty of websites to find these answers, but it's cool to hear it from a knowledgable friend instead. I still wanna know the REAL origin of "shit," though. I don't know what to believe online.

La la la la la....

I wrote 14 songs this February. Check them out here. Hope you like it! Rumors are we might do a show in the future with some artists from Madison who joined in on this thing.