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We’re really heading into the future now. I’m not going to write about how we should have flying cars or jetpacks by now, because it’s nearly impossible to guess what the future is going to be like. What inventions would I most like to see? How about a cure for Cancer, cars powered by Fuel…

Just missing it’s fourth birthday (about 90 in PC years), my computer finally gave up on me. I came home last weekend and it’s familiar hum was missing from the conglomerate of background noises. I tried to bring it back, but so far all attempts have failed. It won’t turn on at all, leading me…

The Iceman paid a visit to Brownies 23 East on Saturday and was exactly what I expected. My friend Kevin bailed on his plan to wear a leather jacket with “Word to your Mother” written on the back, but we had a pretty good time anyway. At one point I accidently smashed my head into…

My first time at Doc’s was interesting. I got there a little early and had a drink before the open mic started. An old man sat next to me tossing profanities at the TV, the President, and me. Luckily he knew what was good for him and left the bar instead of backing up his…

The Grape Street Pub open mic was slower than usual because of the Eagles game, but it wasn’t too bad. John Francis, Jason Wheatley, and Adrien Reju all sounded great. It was Jason’s first time playing the Grape and they seemed to like him there. Hopefully he’ll come back on a busier night. Adrien played…

I saw Frank Black and the Catholics last night and there were way too many opening acts. The show started at 9:00 with former Pixies drummer David Lovering doing a Mr. Wizard show. He was shooting smoke rings with a bass drum and making pickles glow, so that was pretty cool. The first band of…

I’m such a jerk. Adrien gave me a copy of her CD and I left it at the damn Living Room. Hopefully someone picked it up and I can get it back. The Living Room was packed last night to see Jason Wheatley return to his former bi-weekly stage. Adrien, Keith Lewis, Roz King and…

I couldn’t be happier with Comedy Central’s new self promoting commercials. They feature people from various professions saying what they do and why they like Comedy Central. In one, a Bee Keeper says, “Hi I’m a Bee Keeper. I wear this suit to keep the bees out.” My favorite one shows a guy with a…

Adam Brodsky usually hosts an Antihoot (anti-folk) open mic on the 2nd Wednesday of every month at Fergie’s Pub (1214 Sansom), but he was in Texas this week. The show went on, but with more of an normal open mic vibe (anti-anti-folk?). I must look like a guy who enjoys going first, because if there…

The place looked deserted when I walked into the Living Room tonight, but ended up turning out ok. The few in attendence at 8:30 seemed to enjoy my 4 song set, which included “Why Now Satan?”, Beck’s “Asshole” (notice the proper location of those quotes), “The Genius of it All,” and the requested “I’m a…

Justin from nowayscoob emailed me on Friday and wanted to know if I could play a few songs in the middle of their set on Saturday night at the new Port City Java in Deptford, NJ. I’ve heard this coffee house has open mics on Thursday night, but I haven’t checked them out yet. I…

Sadly, I didn’t work hard enough on my top choices for Halloween costumes, so you won’t be seeing me as anything from the poll. I do have a pretty decent costume lined up, but I have to finish working on it today at lunch time. Hopefully I won’t burn down any buildings in the process.…

As I mentioned earlier I caught my friend Jay’s new band King of Prussia. I was really impressed with their sound, especially considering 3/4 of the band had either joined or switched instruments in the past two weeks. If I had to peg them to a sound, they remind me of Fountains of Wayne, but…

Last night I caught Medeski, Martin, and Wood at the Electric Factory. I had my tickets at “Will Call” and we waited forever in line to get them. I don’t even understand why they call it “Will Call” either. It should be called “Pick up Tickets” or “Don’t Buy Them Because You Already Did, Remember?”…

I hadn’t been to the Carribean Crab in a while, but I stopped in last Wednesday because Kopie from nowayscoob was back in town after completing his air force training. Nowayscoob sounded great and I sounded terrible, but it probably had something to do with my voice passing out one song in. I’m not sure…

How’s this for miscellaneous? A the risk of sounding like a giant geek I’m going to complain about the size of Linux ISOs. An ISO is a file you can download and burn onto a CD that will let you install Linux on another machine. All the major distrubutors of Linux have these (Redhat, Mandrake,…

Monday night was a dead night at the Living Rooom although I heard some good performances by Roz King & co., a guy named Vinnie, and an instrumentalist I believe to be named John Marquis. I could be dead wrong about that like I was last week when I incorrectly referred to Dave and Miria’s…

Beck appeared on the Tonight Show last night playing “Lost Cause,” one of the best from his new album, Sea Change. Stripping the song down to a lonely guitar and vocal arrangement sounded great and it made me jealous of anyone who has never heard Beck do anything like this before. He’ll probably sell an…

This my first time checking out the Living Room open mic since Jason left. Roz(well) told me to say anything bad I wanted about him presumably to improve his skills as the new host. Overall it was really good night of music and even featured a few new artists which hasn’t happened in months. Roz…

I hadn’t been to the GSP open mic in a while, but I had to go to check out Lea. I thought she was awesome 4 years ago when I used to hang out at her open mic at DC’s Soho Coffee and Tea (near Dupont Circle), but she’s even better now. She’s playing at…