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Dave Chappelle rocked the Tower Theatre on Friday. What’s weird is that he spells his last name Chappelle, but his website address is www.davechapelle.com. Doesn’t he know how to spell his own name? It felt like a million degrees in the balcony, but I still had a great time.

40% of you chose the joke entry out of all my flyers . Only 1 person liked the Chicken Head flyer which surprised me. MJ/ET got the 2nd most votes, so I’ll consider that the best one. As punishment for your humor you get my scowling face at the top of this page. The latest…

I’m getting to know the interworkings of PostNuke pretty well now. I altered the Latest Links block to stop counting the number of times someone clicks on a link there. The benefit of this is now those sites gets linked with their true URL, making things faster for you and it also gives those sites…

Roz King recently updated his website with a bio and some new MP3s. Learned to play guitar at a coffeehouse that was created to give kids something to do besides drugs the place was closed when they found the meth lab.I’m not so sure they failed in their quest. They wanted to stop kids from…

Like Saddam Hussein, the rumor in Collingswood is that the Living Room’s open mic may or may not be dead. Not enough people have been spending money there on Wednesday nights. I’ve said a million times they should put up a freaking website and market the open mic more to songwriters. An ad in Origivation…

My gig on the 18th is not at the Living Room as I previously mentioned. It’s actually at the Daily Grind in Mt Holly, NJ. Sorry for any confusion.

Apparently, I’m huge in Russia. I don’t know what is more disturbing. That there is a type of boat called a “Ben Garvey” or that I found this out on a site called helloseaman.com. Googling your name is fun.

I did some directory shuffling tonight, so you’ll no longer see the annoying “pn_714/html” in my URLs and the splash page has been banished to data heaven. Good riddance! I had to fix a ton of hard URLs that I stupidly used, but the only ones left should be in old news stories (email me…

I feel guilty. After Peggy Miller’s set last night at the Grape Street Pub open mic I asked her how much her CDs were selling for. “$15,” she replied to my amazement. $15? For a local starving artist’s CD? Local bands should sell their CDs for $6 or LESS. Instead of explaining to her my…

The Rev. Roswell King, host of the Living Room open mic, has asked me to play during the break of his show on Friday, April 18th at the Living Room. This means I’ll probably play from about 10:00 – 10:15 PM. The show starts at 8:00PM with another local artist (not sure who yet) and…

My initial topic for this post was to name my top ten favorite albums. I wrote out the first 7 or so and realized my top choices wereToo famousToo similarReleased in a relatively short period of timeThat’s horrible for someone who claims to be musician. I listen to all sorts of stuff, but when it…

The rumors are true. Tonight was Chrissy’s last night behind the coffee counter at the Living Room open mic. She will definitely be missed. It was a strange night for me in Collingswood. I debuted a new song called “99%” about getting abducted by an alien booze cruise. Screwing it up was a possibility and…

What an odd coincidence there is a musician in the UK named Ben McGarvey. He plays the piano and his style sounds a little like Tori Amos if she were a guy and British. His website needs a little help, but he probably puts more time into his music than I do. What’s with the…

This site uses software called PostNuke to handle all the content and one thing that has always bugged me is that it allows users to set an avatar, but doesn’t use the avatars anywhere on the site. From now on, if you’re logged in and you post a comment the avatar will be shown next…

I almost gave up on nowayscoob’s website, which laid unloved for a few months while Justin frollicked around irresponsibly. It’s certainly not Kopie’s fault their website went updateless since January, because he had other duties. At least their reputation is somewhat redeemed by a long update and some good advice about attending Trocadero events:I figured…

So Adrien Reju’s band is now just called Reju. That’s a good move on Adrien’s part, because she’s bounced around a number of backing muscians since I’ve known her and these guys are clearly what she’s been looking for. They sound great together. She even rocked out with her Paul Reed Smith for a while…

I added some new pictures from Friday’s show to my image gallery. I also added a few pics of other local artists, including Jason Wheatley, Matt Winn, and Reju. Be sure to check out this really weird picture of Matt Winn and Jason Wheatley. The slow shutterspeed created some interesting lighting effects, especially on the…

I had a lot of fun at last night’s show. Jason rocks for having me open up for him and so does everyone for coming out (Sarah, Jeanne, Mark, Rich, Vinnie, Kevin, Joanne, and Adam). I’ll post some pictures of the show later on when I get a chance. I did a set of almost…

Be sure to come out on Friday to see Jason Wheatley and me at the Living Room at 8:00PM. Don’t worry, Jason’s not nearly as scary as I am. Also, you’ll definitely want to check out Adrien Reju on Saturday March 29 @ 8:30PM at 3 Beans Coffee in Haddonfield, NJ. I saw a great…