Month: October 2002

  • Happy Halloween

    Sadly, I didn’t work hard enough on my top choices for Halloween costumes, so you won’t be seeing me as anything from the poll. I do have a pretty decent costume lined up, but I have to finish working on it today at lunch time. Hopefully I won’t burn down any buildings in the process.…

  • King of Prussia @ Nodding Head

    As I mentioned earlier I caught my friend Jay’s new band King of Prussia. I was really impressed with their sound, especially considering 3/4 of the band had either joined or switched instruments in the past two weeks. If I had to peg them to a sound, they remind me of Fountains of Wayne, but…

  • Medeski, Martin, Wood, and 24 Years on Earth

    Last night I caught Medeski, Martin, and Wood at the Electric Factory. I had my tickets at “Will Call” and we waited forever in line to get them. I don’t even understand why they call it “Will Call” either. It should be called “Pick up Tickets” or “Don’t Buy Them Because You Already Did, Remember?”…

  • Open Mic Recap @ The Crab

    I hadn’t been to the Carribean Crab in a while, but I stopped in last Wednesday because Kopie from nowayscoob was back in town after completing his air force training. Nowayscoob sounded great and I sounded terrible, but it probably had something to do with my voice passing out one song in. I’m not sure…

  • Major Linux ISOs are Too Big

    How’s this for miscellaneous? A the risk of sounding like a giant geek I’m going to complain about the size of Linux ISOs. An ISO is a file you can download and burn onto a CD that will let you install Linux on another machine. All the major distrubutors of Linux have these (Redhat, Mandrake,…

  • Open Mic Recap @ The Living Room

    Monday night was a dead night at the Living Rooom although I heard some good performances by Roz King & co., a guy named Vinnie, and an instrumentalist I believe to be named John Marquis. I could be dead wrong about that like I was last week when I incorrectly referred to Dave and Miria’s…

  • Beck on the Tonight Show

    Beck appeared on the Tonight Show last night playing “Lost Cause,” one of the best from his new album, Sea Change. Stripping the song down to a lonely guitar and vocal arrangement sounded great and it made me jealous of anyone who has never heard Beck do anything like this before. He’ll probably sell an…

  • Open Mic Recap @ The Living Room: King Roz

    This my first time checking out the Living Room open mic since Jason left. Roz(well) told me to say anything bad I wanted about him presumably to improve his skills as the new host. Overall it was really good night of music and even featured a few new artists which hasn’t happened in months. Roz…

  • Open Mic Recap @ The Grape Street Pub

    I hadn’t been to the GSP open mic in a while, but I had to go to check out Lea. I thought she was awesome 4 years ago when I used to hang out at her open mic at DC’s Soho Coffee and Tea (near Dupont Circle), but she’s even better now. She’s playing at…

  • Open Mic Recap @ The Living Room: RIP Jason

    Jason Wheatley is no longer the bi-weekly host of the Living Room’s open mic (and as far as I know that’s “bi-weekly” and not “bi weekly”). Considering the crowds all summer at the Living Room, MC Jason’s last show was surprisingly low key, but the night featured many LR regulars such as Keith Lewis, Adrien,…