Month: April 2003

  • Autographed CD

    Today I came across a CD from the band Laughing Colors. It was their 1998 album, The Pattern Seed, and I had heard of the band because we played Grape Street the same night once or twice. The CD was signed, “To Jen. You Rock!” followed by a random band member’s signature. Jen must have…

  • Open Mic Recap @ Fergie’s Pub

    It wasn’t my first time at Fergie’s, but it was my first time stopping by their Monday night open mic. It was pretty popular compared to the times I visited Adam Brodsky’s antihoot there. I took the speedline over to Philly and someone on the train said they remembered me from the Living Room open…

  • Philly Music Awards

    You can vote online for your favorites in the Philly Music Awards. I wonder how the nomination process works. I know part of the nominations are done by people turning in ballots at local venues, but these have to be stuffed by people who work for the bands or are in the bands themselves. Hopefully…

  • Shaughnessy on the Harper’s Pub Open Mic

    John Shaughnessy recently attened the open mic at Harper’s Pub in Clementon, NJ, home of some of the area’s most dangerous roller coasters.Well, Clementon, NJ is not exactly my neighborhood, but I actually met myfolks (yeah, M & D) at Harper’s Thursday for some wings and beer, and to play some songs at the Open…

  • Damn Bikers on 42

    Someone please tell me what the hell was going on this morning on 42 southbound? It was closed until 12:00PM to make way for a million motorcycles heading somewhere. Dozens of people were watching and cheering them on along the highway. I couldn’t turn around and ended up getting dumped onto a heavily crowded 295…

  • New MP3s

    If you’re a registered user you should see a few links at the top of this page for MP3s of my April 8th set at the GSP open mic. Because one of my database tables became corrupted last week everyone has to log back in if you haven’t done so already. Sorry about that. The…

  • Neglecting My Guitar

    I’m treating my guitar poorly. It’s had a broken string for 5 days now and I still haven’t replaced it, although I did buy some new strings. I’m going to try out Elixirs and see how they sound. I’ve been listening to my new recordings a lot and I think I’ll post the “99%”, but…

  • Iraqi Information Minister

    By now most people are fans of the Iraqi Information Minister, but did anyone know he broadcasted a few messages about me? Clip 1 Clip 2 Thanks Brian for sending me the links!

  • Jason Wheatley Around Town

    Collingswood favorite Jason Wheatley has some gigs coming up, courtesy of Happy Cat Records. Thursday April 24 @ 7:30pm Coffee Works – Voorhees NJ (near the ritz theaters) Tuesday April 29 @ 8:30pm $5 cover Grape Street Pub (upstairs Acoustic Lounge)The current poll is pretty popular. The masses have spoken out in force against the…

  • Roz Speaks

    Roz wrote a short recap of our show last weekend, which is a first for his website. BenGarvey played my break and did a pretty good Job.I always enjoy hearing him play.Unfortantly I had to take car of some stuff in the truck so I missed part of that aliens on 206 song that he’s…

  • Best Picture Ever

    I hung out in the emergency room until 4:00AM on Saturday night because my future sister-in-law had to get stiches after stepping on poor ceramic piglet. It’s moments like these I’m grateful I carry my digital camera with me.

  • Last Night’s Show

    Thanks to everyone who came out last night (Mike, Corinne, Jake, Rich, Jeanne, and Sarah Allen and her friends). I can’t say it was one of my best shows, but I had a pretty good time. Breaking a string 5 minutes into my set will do that. I knew those light gauge strings would do…

  • Reminder for Tonight’s Show!

    If you want to come out to tonight’s show at the Daily Grind in Mt. Holly, here are the directions. Things will probably get started around 8:00 – 8:30PM. One of my database tables was corrupted today, resulting in the site being down for a while. I fixed it, but I have no idea what…

  • Retiring the Open Mic

    Hopefully the Living Room’s open mic retirement will be like Michael Jordan’s. Not his real retirement tonight, but his fake ones of years past. I had a lot of fun going to the Wednesday night open mics over the last year or so and it’s a shame the owner is putting it to sleep. I…

  • Gullible in Philadelphia

    This is beyond funny. Someone posts a message at Origivation claiming to need bands for the upcoming film, “Howard the Duck 2” and no less than 10 BANDS replied with their contact information. The Phoenix Trap’s Chad Gorn even admitted he still likes Howard the Duck. Here is my response. Wanted: List of people who…

  • Beck’s Journal

    I just found out Beck has been doing some weblogging on his latest Philadelphialess tour (The Feztival doesn’t count). He’s a good writer and offers some insight into dealing with the press.usually what interviewers do is find something that somebody said somewhere about you that wasn’t particularly nice, then ask you “a lot of people…

  • Living Room Open Mic?

    I don’t know whether there is going to be an open mic tonight at the Living Room in Collingswood, NJ. If the rumors of shutting down Wednesday nights are true then I’ll be pretty disappointed. I had a lot of fun going there each week, especially last summer. I don’t even want to know how…

  • New CDs

    The latest additions to my CD collection have been great. Here’s a quick rundown of what I’m listening to. 1. The White Stripes – Elephant: I’m really impressed their follow up to White Blood Cells doesn’t suck. In fact, it’s great. The solo’s guitar tone on “Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine” makes my…

  • Random Link

    Tonight I coded up a new PostNuke Block that randomly displays a link stored in my database. I have over 50 links in there with descriptions, but hardly anyone ever goes into the links section. The block is a nice way to use the content so more people can enjoy it. Some day I’ll have…

  • 20,000 Page Views

    Earlier today the page view counter on the stats page passed 20,000. It’s been ticking since this site went live last June. Thanks for stopping by the site so much.