Sorry to anyone who planned on signing up for the open mic earlier today. My web host woke up to a Denial of Service attack today, causing this site to be down almost all day. The open mic is definitely still on so come out tonight at 8:00PM (7:00PM signup).

Updates may be sparse this week since I’m moving, and just in the nick of time! I’ll also be out of town for a while, but I’ll still be here for this week’s open mic at the Tree House. What is up with the Oaklyn kids who planned and almost went on a local killing…

A third recap of the Tree House open mic was posted by James of Apple of Discord:after nelson beat me 147-137 in a spirited game of nba live 2003 – we were neck and neck until virtual nolan and virtual matt missed two easy buckets that led to a seven point swing – we went…

The guy over at hipp music (I don’t know his actual name yet) gave a quick and pretty crummy review of the open mic last night. Sadly, I agree with everything he said except that the PA wasn’t manned properly. When the Columbia crashed no one said it wasn’t manned properly.Last night was my first…

Local musician Keith Lewis wrote a piece for his website on why people start playing guitar and how likely their success will be. His definition of success isn’t being a famous guitar wizard, but rather being a halfway decent player.”Many aspire, few attain.” That very old saying rings very true for those in pursuit of…

Tonight was exhausting. Someone must have messed with the sound system since last Wednesday, because it was giving us problems all night. At first it was so bad we had to mix people using only the gain knob! Eventually with the help of Roz and Adrien lending us her tuning pedal, we were able to…

The show gets started a little earlier tonight. Signup in person starting at 7:00PM and I’ll begin at 8:00PM sharp. Of course, you can signup online right now and beat the traffic. If you sign up online later than 6:00PM there is no guarantee you’ll be on my list. Pay no attention to the euro-style…

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…

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

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…

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…