Hah!! These guys are just like me….checking out guitars at the guitar store….except…they play better than me…some, at least. Other than that…they’re just like me!!!

Man….what could be more interesting than watching rock stars check out some new guitars? Me….buying some shoes? Maybe it’s not so interesting. It’s fun to window shop….and they’ll let you plug in all these guitars and play some weird stuff….really … Continue reading

RESTRUNG

You turn your avocation into a vocation….in a way that feels like there’s no real division or separation between your life and your work….and you build these basses that are works of art….and eventually you find success doing it. I stumbled on … Continue reading

space pants

Here’s a performance by Peter Dinklage from a recent Saturday Night Live episode. Good grief. That’s some funny stuff. How can our heads hold all the stuff that washes through our world? Maybe our heads don’t really need to hold … Continue reading

when the fire starts

I couldn’t sleep last night….caught up in worry. When it gets to the point where you’re adding worrying about not getting to sleep to your list of worries, I think that things have gone a little too far. It’s a … Continue reading

look at your neighbor and say, “joy to the world!”

Look at this church!! I don’t know that we clapped all that much at our church. The Scandinavians at the Lutheran church were more laid-back. And…laid-back is still my style. But….this enthusiasm is pretty great. Now, we’ve visited some churches … Continue reading

Everything’s frozen. That’s what a freezer does, right?

OK….here’s the deal. The defrost cycle in the freezer comes on, melts any ice that might have formed on the coils at the back of the freezer, the water drips down into the tray below the defroster….and then, hopefully, flows down … Continue reading

why you gotta be so…..snarky?

Awwwwwww, man. Snarky Puppy! How’d they fly under my radar? Here’s a video they did that features a great vocalist named Lalah Hathaway. I think it’s from a series of performances they released on a couple of CD/DVD compilations called … Continue reading

Mo’ Bass!!! Mo’ Bass!! (and….the other guys in the band are pretty great, too)

Here’s the bassist from yesterday’s video, Michael League, and his band, Snarky Puppy, from Brooklyn, NY. This video is from a performance at the Asheville Music Hall….from 2013. The video is from the same YouTube channel I mentioned yesterday….Barry2theB !! … Continue reading

hallelujah!! it’s the bass!!

OK….here’s the deal: looking up “Asheville musicians”, I came upon this video. This lady isn’t from Asheville. This video is from a live performance that took place in Asheville, NC back in 2014 at the Asheville Music Hall. She’s from … Continue reading

cheap, cheap, cheap

No matter how much money you have…..you want more money. Mo’ money. Funny how that goes. Unless…..you figure out a way to not have anything and are able to just enjoy the breeze. Who can do that, though? Here’s a … Continue reading