Twisted Acres

I traded in my Honda element for a Subaru Impreza, and I'm getting noticeably better mileage... 27/28mpg as opposed to 21/22. I miss the extra space, but that's the trade-off I guess. I hear that it'll soon be cheaper to fill your tank with Gentleman Jack, Moet White Star, or Cristal than with regular unleaded.

Sounds like a hoot, Louis, and PLEASE wish Rosie a happy 21st for Patti and I!

Mart! I'm getting an error message when I try to unzip these (tried the download twice, same thing both times). Any chance of a re-zip/re-up?

Sorry about that Maudie... I've re-zipped and re-uploaded it, here's the link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/yh5fo9 ... let me know if it works!

As recognizable a television voice as there has ever been. Always loved to watch "Wide World of Sports," especially when the Globetrotters or Evel Knievel were on. I had that entire opening monologue from the show ("Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sports... the thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat... the human drama of athletic competition...") memorized as a kid.

It's amazing, what a different age it is, back then we had but 7 or so channels to choose from, and on a Saturday afternoon in winter time, if you weren't out hurling snowballs at a bus, you were watching Jim McKay.

Rest in peace, Jim.

Sharing is caring, so... my little bitty bitter end show, 6/4/08 mp3s

congrats, it's all-the-more an amazing accomplishment in the age we live in! The one thing I don't mind about paying a mortgage is the fact that you can write off the interest... doesn't quite make it fun enough, though...

The greatest generation, indeed.

Seconded. One of a handful of dates in world history that should never, ever be forgotten.

CONGRATS Tim!!!!!!!!!!! (from yet another oldie)

Hey Matt, thanks so much for making it down to the Bitter End, it was a wonderful night of music, and John Popper showed up to do his thing with Chris Barron, whose bass player, Brett Bass, is one of the nicest guys I know. This was the end of a weekly Wednesday night residency for Chris, and the start of one for the Josh Dion Band, who asked us along to open for them. It was great fun and the place wound up being quite mobbed. I had to leave to get a crepe!

So kind of you to make it down, Matt, it was really great to finally meet you.

Can you imagine that in this day and age? Eight innings from a kid in his first-ever start? Amazing... Smoltz is a throwback. Wouldn't be something if he is in fact done, and Glavine and Maddux happen to hang it up after this year? 5 years from now, they'd all be on the podium together in Cooperstown. Shit, they should just put all three of them on one plaque.

"Winning with Flowers" is very catchy. Nice tune, Martin.

Thanks so much! Live it's fun because Eric Katerle takes a very jazzy turn on the guitar solo... it's neat-o.

I'm playing tonite (8pm) at The Bitter End on Bleecker St. in NYC, opening for

The Josh Dion Band (9pm) and Spin Doctors singer Chris Barron (10:30pm) ... oughta be a fun night if you're in NYC. Josh is an amazingly talented drummer, and they put on quite a good show. Chris is... well, Chris.

my stuff

Hennepin is the f'ing BEST. Brewed by Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown, NY! Ommegang opened in 1997, brewing in the Belgian tradition. They were so good at it, that Duvel bought them a few years back, saying "just keep doing what you're doing so we can learn from you..." imagine! The biggest Belgian brewer of all buying a little-bitty brewery in Cooperstown so that they could learn from them!

http://www.ommegang.com/

Where's Mart? It's time for my annual trip to the ballpark ("Irish Night"), and it's the Giants vs. the Mets. It's on!

So glad you were there to see Oliver Perez get spanked around mercilessly, then thrown into a dumpster filled with scorpions. Man that guy is vexing. I'd trade him for a popcorn machine at this point. Sanchez for the Giants looks like a great young pitcher, though... Hope y'all had fun, Maudie!

I immediately thought of The Strangeloves/Bow Wow Wow's "I Want Candy" as a song whose lifeblood was that BEAT.

I'll be racing over to Arlene's straight from our weekly Campfire show on 6/22, Daveed! Have fun at the CD release show, I'll be root-root-rootin' for ya!

He's just a shell of his former self; fatherhood has softened his edge. But he's still the best.

Thanks so much, guys... been spending a quite relaxing day with Patti (she took the day off)... drove down to Point Pleasant for some lobster, and then went to the Legendary James P. Walsh's house to hang with him and the family... now off to bed. Too many margaritas! Yes, Paul, the crepe on MacDougal St. was the perfect way to begin a birthday, thanks to you and Kailin for that!

holy shit I can't begin to imagine what it must cost to fill up a mid-sized boat these days...

Talyor 110 with a LR Baggs M1 active installed

 

I play part time in a cover / jam band with some co-workers, but use my gear mostly for home recordings.

Welcome aboard, Carlo!

I've gone ahead and installed LR Baggs M1As into both of my Breedloves, and into my Gretsch Rancher Jumbo. What a phenomenal-sounding pickup. Got a board recording from a show I played this week at Rockwood Music Hall in NYC and couldn't believe how rich the guitar sounded. Happy as a clam with that pickup.

Beyond disappointed in the boys... Willie might actually have to go. Wow.

That Sportscenter top 10 of Manny had me in stitches this morning.

Manny is such an incredible character; sports needs more folks like him... I love him! Can't WAIT for his HOF induction speech! Hugging everybody...

Happy birthday, you taaaallll drink of water you!

Holy SHIT those throwbacks are CHOICE!!! I wonder if the Rangers just called over to the Nationals and borrowed their helments for the day...

God bless the memory of everyone mentioned here, and bless those who miss them. Help us to learn to live with the pain caused by the void, and perhaps help it ease a bit. Let the memories and laughs and joy that come with thinking of and talking of those we miss appear as often as they can. Help us to live, to really really live, to live for them, and to live for us, knowing that we'll be back together real soon on a day so great that we are not meant to comprehend it.

Not to bring God into it (and hopefully not to offend anyone), but for me, it's the faith that God will bring us together with those we dearly miss that helps me push through life.