Month: June 2003

  • My Weekend

    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…

  • Kelly Bell @ Grape Street Tonight

    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…

  • g-love (lottery)

    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…

  • Open Mic Recap @ the Tree House

    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…

  • Treehouse Open Mic Tonight

    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…

  • Pink Covering BECK

    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…

  • Bees, Scary Clowns and Cowbell Fever

    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…

  • Hello World! in Every Language

    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,…

  • Sign Up for the Open Mic Online

    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…

  • Finding Nemo

    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…

  • Girl Upstairs

    I noticed local group Girl Upstairs was playing this Saturday at the Groovegound anniversary party in Collingswood on Haddon Ave. I checked out their website to see what they were up to only to find their domain was stolen by pornographers. Their real website can be found here

  • Open Mic Recap @ The Tree House

    Hey, my first night on the job wasn’t so bad. There were a few sound problems, but those should be worked out by next week (I hope). Despite playing at hundreds of open mics in my life, hosting one is pretty far out of my normal routine and I think it will be good for…

  • Hidden Prices, Fake Bodies, Yearbook Laws

    Radiohead tickets go on sale this Saturday. Is not posting the ticket prices until the day they go on sale a new business strategy? The same thing happened for the White Stripes show at Penn’s Landing next month. We’re all slaves to the Ticketmaster. This is too funny. Ever wonder why some celebrities agree to…

  • My First Website

    I put up my first website in the fall of 1997 and thanks to the Internet Wayback machine you can view it for yourself. Not all the content on the site was archived, and neither was my nifty-for-its-time title graphic, but it gives you a good idea of how I started out. The site also…

  • Come out to the Tree House Tonight

    I’ll be hosting tonight’s open mic at the Tree House in Collingswood, NJ on the corner of Haddon and Collings Ave. This is my first time doing anything like this, so hopefully I won’t suck. Roz is going to help me out with the sound, but starting next week I’ll be on my own.

  • Wired Predictions for Doomsday

    Wired has a cool article discussing and debunking all ways we could possibly kick it as a species and to my surprise, the first item uses Richard Gott’s probability formula to guess how much longer we’ll last. This is of course the same formula I’m using in my ongoing experiment, Copernicus Picks the Dead Celebrity…

  • Senator Hatch: I Want to Break 70 Million Computers

    Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah recently said he’s “very interested” in technology to destroy the computers of copyright infringers and it “may be the only way you can teach somebody about copyrights.” Current estimates of how many people in the US trade files are around 70 million. His opinion goes way beyond the scope of…

  • 1 Year Anniversary of bengarvey.com

    Last year on June 17th, I set up Post Nuke after getting a server and a domain name. It cost me a total of $95 and I think it was money well spent. I wasn’t sure how well this site would do, and I I’ve exceeded most of my expectations for year 1. Take a…

  • Origivation’s Orgy Awards

    Local music sheet Origivation has announced the Orgy winners, which recognize local talent. I’ve only seen three of the bands who won awards (The Blue Method, The Phoenix Trap, and K-Floor), but I’ve heard of almost all the winners. Unlike other local awards, the voting for the Orgies was closed to the public and was…

  • What a Narc(issist)

    Local band Tragik recently broke up and posted a lengthy goodbye on their website.Ken went back to his roots and began to write from a more personal headspace. Unwillingboro was released the way ?and so the martyr says had been; completely born and produced by one person. Ken played and recorded every instrument and track…