before the music dies

they're showing this tonight at the fine arts theater downtown. and be there i will. it's a documentary on the state of the music biz. music will never die.


beforethemusicdies.com

scented motivational fruit?

care to guess what scented motivational fruit might be?

(click to see what it is)

not very nice

not very nice, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

maybe i was the brat too. here are some pictures of us on that trip to florida mostly riding fake horses.

weekend

saturdays full of potential
sundays full of regret
projects parties list to get done
good friends you never met

fight depression

tooth & nail

trevor garrod @ las tortugas, last sunday morning 10-28

angel from montgomery (john prine)
just like heaven> (the cure)
don't let it down
? 'water, wind and wine' -tg on harp and guitar
16 tons (merle davis)
where the forest was
'i wish i was innocent'
i've got a truck
edge of the world
blackbird on a wire
love reveals
brokedown palace (hunter/garcia)
drink of streams




taped & posted by AG of jambase

can you believe it's november

nacho thinks it's been a loooong week


going to a japanese steak house is like taking a bath in sesame oil

inadvertent hieroglyphics

widespread panic question

Take 5: This is your second show in Asheville this year. Why did you decide to bring this special Halloween show here to town?

John Bell: For Widespread Panic, Halloween is a major holiday, so we like it to be someplace special. Asheville has grown on us over the years. We could tell that’s where the good vibe was going to be. We keep secret what we’re going to do. I don’t even tell the boys what I’m going to wear before the show. It’s the one time we get to play make-believe and do a lot of tunes that we wouldn’t normally play.

lotsa parties

chubby hands seek twigs, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

went to a few looooovely get togethers this weekend full of cute babies, fascinating folks, super music, sweet treats & drinks, and good times all around.

first time playing, totally nailed it

it burns

what's the difference between mental and spiritual?

baseball card

i just found this card i made a few months ago for a boston red sox fan i know but forgot to give it to him. it's the colors of a red sox game. i think it's good luck in times like these.

shantaram

shantaram california, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

i just read this book shantaram by gregory david roberts & found it wildly entertaining and informative.

the main character escaped from jail in australia and went to bombay india to live there as a fugitive, where he got into black market crime and set up a free medical clinic to treat his neighbors in the bombay slum. strangely enough the author did just the same thing in real life.

his description of the bombay slum where he lived was eye-opening for me in that it was very orderly and clean and tidy and all the thousands of inhabitants were peaceable and neighborly with each other. some parts of the book were too graphic for me describing the ways he was beaten and tortured in the indian jail, but i just skimmed those paragraphs without forming mental images & just said 'thank god it's not me, thank god it's not me'.

he met some fascinating characters along the way & the book gives great insight into bombay organized crime and indian culture in general. i have no desire to go to india myself at this point, and i appreciate the way this book took me there in a third-party way.

the book is 950 pages and i read it in 3 days, that's how quickly it flows. thanks to the mappy camper for suggesting it, i highly enjoyed reading this.