I didn’t see the Kelly Bell Band as planned last Friday, but instead headed out to Tom Drinker’s Pub and even stopped by the utterly pathetic Coyote Ugly. At Drinker’s some guy thought I looked like stupid Russel from Six Feet Under who was played by Ben Foster. Russel of course was famous this season…

If you’ve never seen the Kelly Bell Band come to Grape Street tonight and check them out. They call their style “phat blues” and always sound great live. You should come just to see Matt Carol’s 8 string bass. I thought someone I knew saw G-Love on Wednesday night at Grape Street with his side…

i went to the grape street pub in manayunk not knowing what to expect. we knew that g-love was gona be there. so we got there early knowing the place was going to be packed. about 7:30 he showed up for sound check. their was only about 9 people in the whole place. he played…

It was night #2 for me as the host of the Tree House open mic and it went great! I won’t pretend scheduling everyone to play went perfectly smooth and there wasn’t the occasional feedback explosion, but we had great musicians and good sound for most of the night. This was the first week I…

Sorry to any unregistered users who tried to sign up for the open mic. It probably didn’t work for you until recently. Everything should be fine now. Things will get started at 8:30PM. Signup in person after 7:30PM or signup now online. I broke a string already on my two week old strings, but I…

I’ll have to check out both versions now. Taken right from Beck’s Journal:I also saw pink doing her new song, which is in fact my old song. I wrote and recorded it with william orbit a few years back. its called feelgood time. it sat around languishing like a few dozen other tracks of mine…

As the title suggests… Bees I can’t help but think of Tommy Boy. Scary Clowns Don’t click if you’re afraid of clowns. Cowbell Fever In my top ten Saturday Night Live sketches is certainly the Christopher Walken/Blue Oyster Cult skit where Walken demands more cowbell. It inspired some music geeks to list every cowbell song…

Every programming book starts with a “Hello World!” example. It’s the most basic program you can write in any language and I use it or its many variations (“Goodbye Cruel World!”) to make sure my development environment is set up properly. This site houses Hello World! examples for dozens of programming languages including C++, Perl,…

I fulfilled my promise of putting up a way for people to sign up for the Tree House’s Wednesday open mic online. Sign up here for this week’s open mic. If you’re logged in and saved a website address in your profile, the signup sheet will link your name to your website. Another cool feature…

I really liked Finding Nemo. I’m not sure how Pixar put out 5 quality films in a row. You can’t help but be impressed, especially compared to the complete and utter crap from Disney’s traditional animation studio. I didn’t really like Shrek, and wasn’t crazy about Ice Age (and not because Blue Sky turned me…