Category: Music

  • Thinking out loud

    In My Back Pages, billmon explains why he reopened the Whiskey Bar and what motivated his continued approach to blogging: So what are you supposed to do when high officials in your own government – in power, right now – brag publicly, if anonymously, about committing (or at least enabling) bestial war crimes? What do…

  • From MJ's lips to my pate

    IMG_0043 Originally uploaded by minjungkim. When I arrived at the Gawker party after leaving the Blogger party I told Min Jung I was feeling sort of unkissable, surrounded by so many people spotting her trademark lipsmack. She averred that bearded men are hard to do, so I whipped off my new Blogger-swag cap and leaned…

  • Mr. Sun on teh funny

    Mr. Sun: Humor on the Web – what I’ve learned and where I’ve learned it is an online version of Mr. Sun’s presentation from this past week’s SXSW. All of the advice is good, but the last point must become your mantra: When in doubt: robots and monkeys.

  • Gourds last night, the Resentments tonight

    Went to Stubb’s barbecue last night with Syrup and her beau to hear the Gourds and Old 97’s. Tried to eat there but there was 45-minute wait so we went to Jaime’s across the street and I had – wait for it – tex-mex again! Shrimp enchiladas were excellent, as was the top shelf margarita.…

  • Don't mess with Oakland

    I told B I was going to wear my A’s cap in Austin at SXSW because it’s sunny there and I’d need an eyeshade and she thought that maybe Texans would be offended but I said that was silly. We can all represent our home towns without giving offense, right? Anyway, here I am blogging…

  • Awkward silence

    For some odd reason both of the outgoing mail servers that route mail for me from my various addresses are stalling out repeatedly at the moment. This means I have about seven or eight messages in my queue that aren’t being sent out. This means that I may be trying to reply to email from…

  • We can rebuild it

    I tore down the monolog at x-pollen and built it back up as a new standalone blog. It was a fake blog before. Now it has its own blog number in my system and for the time being it will only update when I update it manually (at least until I get a crontab working).…

  • Blog is beautiful

    Jerry Brown is blogging. He is also running for attorney general of the state of California. He is also the mayor of Oakland. I voted for him in the California primary in 1992. He still has the generic TypePad design. Welcome!

  • Hot on the heels of ping spam comes referrer spam

    Referrer spam, by which a spam domain gets visibility on your list of incoming links, is the cutting edge of blog spam these days. Jay Allen explains how to fend it off with a perl plug-in for MT-Blacklist (MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse: Using MT-Blacklist on referrer spam). Laura “limon” Lemay has another approach to staving off…

  • Here comes the trackback spam

    First it was wiki spam over at The Power of Many and now it’s a wave of trackback spam at all of my Mediajunkie sites! (Blogistan contributors may despam recent trackbacks)

  • Hurry up and wait

    I woke up at 4:30 am on Monday for a 5 o’clock pick up to get to the airport by 5:30 for a 6:15 flight. As it was Monday morning, the security lines were incredibly long, but I had no problem making my flight (on Sky West, which shuttles for Delta). My plane on both…

  • By the time I'm over Phoenix she'll be rising

    I’m headed to Albuquerque early this morning for a pop culture conference that starts later this week. I’ll blog from the site assuming connectivity is adequate.

  • and on Friday

    I practiced chord forms (E, A) up the neck I cleaned the bathroom, specifically the toilet, but used too much of the spray stuff so the room was thick with it and the floor is now sticky. I spent most of the day digging through a year’s worth of unfiled stuff in my room /…

  • I felt busy…

    …but it looks like I didn’t get as much done yesterday as I had intended: Thursday, February 3 dropped off rent practiced changes to “Friend is a Four-Letter Word” by Cake Scales and modes, pick and fingering exercises Practiced harmonized scales (D form, E form, A form) I must have forgotten to note something, though.

  • Yesterday

    Feeling productive: Wednesday, February 2 work on modes practice melody licks on guitar get money order for jazzfest tickets blog about state of the onion chat chat about the state of the onion iChat AV w/dad (birthday) make petrale sole with sauce bercy and salad and baguette

  • Songs in the key of January

    A random sample of stuff done this year excluding confidences, of course: Wednesday, February 2 worked on modes practice melody licks on guitar IMd with culture kitchen diva Liza Sabater Tuesday, February 1 paid for Moon over Briones picture grocery shop leftover soup for dinner play guitar and uke with Dan try, but fail, to…

  • State of the Union chat

    Feel like snarking back at the president or celebrating the Iraqi franchise or critiquing the production values of the pageant? I’ll be here: Join in a State of the Union BackChannel Chat, Tonight | Personal Democracy Forum (reblogged from The Power of Many: How to sit in the peanut gallery for tonight’s State of the…

  • Oakland District 2 Council seat candidate's night

    A month or so ago my city council representative, Danny Wan, resigned to take a better-paying position with the Port of Oakland. Justin Horner, the chief of staff for city councilmember Jane Brunner, is one of the candidates for the seat in the special election. He’s also a neighbor of mine. He came by knocking…

  • My arms are killing me

    For a few months I’ve been wondering why my upper arms have been aching. Did I lift something? Is it referred pain? Today, it dawned on me. I’ve been practicing guitar and ukulele for about an hour or so a day for almost a year. No wonder! Now I don’t even mind. It’s just like…

  • It wasn't Flickr's fault

    OK, my bad. I take it back. The various tools for uploading photos to Flickr seem to be working just fine. It was just a hiccup. Then again I don’t like the random bunch o’ photos I get in the sidebar here as much as I’d prefer perhaps the most recent. In other news, I…

  • by popular request

    go, little speed racer, go!