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I’ve been having a hell of a time with this website. The hosting site,1 & 1, moved their servers to Kansas City and I was unable to post for the past week…I finally figured out what was going on and patched the problems up… So I’m cleaning house here and discovered some interesting audio bits…

It’s Thanksgiving. People are traveling long distances to be together. Most are thinking about dinner. Turkey dinner seems to be pretty much the most traditional type of dinner. Nothing wrong with that, I suppose. It just got me thinking about a different kind of Turkey. Recently, I was the winning bidder in an eBay auction…

Ouch! I can’t believe I haven’t written about the new Stanley Kubrick remastered DVDs which came out a couple of weeks ago. I opted out of buying the set, picking up the two-disc versions of The Shining and A Clockwork Orange instead — both in new ANAMORPHIC DVD transfers! And after all this time we’d…

It’s been almost three months to the day since my last scuba dive on the wreck of the Oriskany off the coast of Pensacola, Florida. Cobbled together my gear for a dip into Austin’s Lake Travis this past weekend. My rusty skills and the salt water damage done to my equipment was further burdened by…

Caught ex-Swervedriver vocalist/guitarist Adam Franklin at 50-capacity rock club The Cavern on Greenville Ave. last Thursday. Adam and his band tore through tracks from his solo debut, Bolts of Melody, including the set opener and Swervie soundalike “Seize the Day.” It was practically manna for us old Swervedriver fans — so imagine my surprise to…

Here’s a rare clip of The Dwight Twilley Band in action…featuring a pre-fame Tom Petty on bass guitar!

If there was ever any doubt that Dr. Ron Paul’s support system was made up of more than just a few, lonely nerds living in their parents’ basement — how about his ability to raise $1.2 million dollars in six days? That’s what the Republican hopeful took in during the last week of the third…

I’m not sure what to make of this. But it made me laugh and try to find out more about the director Tom Rubnitz. Don’t hate…appreciate. From 1989…it’s Pickle Surprise!

I’ve officially spent one year working at The Integer Group. For my diligence, I was awarded a company-wide email acknowledgment of my service, a signed certificate in a cheap, plastic frame…but best of all, I was allowed to pick a restaurant for an afternoon luncheon for our studio team. I thought about it and casually…