What made your day today?

[nausearockpig]

I use to play and hang with these dudes. Now on Letterman. Crazy shit.

That was pretty rad.. I think you may have made a tactical error moving to Japan.. you're gonna be like Jason Everman....

[guysmiley]

I use to play and hang with these dudes. Now on Letterman. Crazy shit.

That was pretty rad.. I think you may have made a tactical error moving to Japan.. you're gonna be like Jason Everman....

Well, I wasn't in this group, just opened for them many times and we know each other. They always dropped my band name in interviews, so they were very nice to me. Yeah, believe me I feel like I'm missing the scene back home.

[nausearockpig]

I use to play and hang with these dudes. Now on Letterman. Crazy shit.

That was pretty rad.. I think you may have made a tactical error moving to Japan.. you're gonna be like Jason Everman....

Well, I wasn't in this group, just opened for them many times and we know each other. They always dropped my band name in interviews, so they were very nice to me. Yeah, believe me I feel like I'm missing the scene back home.

Someone put their performance up on dime:

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-deta ... 8855&hit=1

That would feel amazing. So would being on tv I guess...

[Xizen47]

Yeah, believe me I feel like I'm missing the scene back home.

I bet,, Portland has a great music scene.. Builders and Butchers, Morning Teleportation, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Portugal the Man, Red Fang etc. etc...

Doug Fir is one of my favorite places to see a show...

[perkana]

This has been very entertaining, click on an specific genre and have fun!
http://research.google.com/bigpicture/music/

[nausearockpig]

I use to play and hang with these dudes. Now on Letterman. Crazy shit.

So for shits and giggles, I had a look at the "auditions" section in my local area and see this... read thru the influences..

http://www.ozjam.com.au/audition679/a-s ... ey-player/

Edit: Their poor grammar puts me off...

[guysmiley]

Damn, those guys blew up more than I thought.

[nausearockpig]

Damn, those guys blew up more than I thought.

You be all Everman... Kidding..

Is cool though that they're reaching out all over the place. Give em a hug for me!

[Pandemonium]

So I did a extended weekend trip to Florida for a wedding in Miami and my wife and I took an over-nighter and stayed in Cocoa Beach near Cape Kennedy up the coast so we could do the full day tourist thing at the space center.

This was my second visit to the Cape, I cannot emphasize how amazing the entire launch complex/space center is, it really was a remarkable time in the 60's when they put this whole thing together in less than a decade to get men to the Moon and carried it through the Shuttle era. I paid for the full tour inside the gigantic Vehicle Assembly Building where they stacked the Saturn rockets and space shuttles - kinda weird that it's now basically an empty building with no one working there. Saw a few alligators in ditches and ponds and weirdly a number of roadkill pigs on long stretches of the highway up the coast - I guess they are a growing problem in Florida.

Miami was .... ok. It's kind of like a grungier version of Hawaii, hotels on the beach as far as the eye can see and bad traffic even now during off season. Took an afternoon while the wife and all the other girls got their hair and makeup done and cruised and walked some beaches, don't think I have a need to return. The wedding itself was at the Bride's parents home who obviously are pretty wealthy - the place was very beautiful, like a large plantation. Interestingly, it was very cool, much cooler than here in Southern California, especially at night where it got down to the high 30's. Here's a few shots:

The Saturn/Apollo exhibit:


Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building looking up 500 feet to the ceiling.


Welcome to Miami:


Hotels, hotels, hotels:


The... uh, locals:


Your humble narrator coming up on 55:

[Larry B.]

Regardless of the year and your wardrobe, you just scream 80s. Nice pictures

[guysmiley]

Playing a solo show. Probably 10 years in the making.

[Larry B.]

[chaos]

Your humble narrator coming up on 55:

You look distinguished.

Regardless of the year and your wardrobe, you just scream 80s.

I don't see it.




With a dark tie, you would have a Secret Service vibe.

[clickie]

Red tie for a wedding..now thats a powerful statement..

[Pandemonium]

Red tie for a wedding..now thats a powerful statement..

My other option was my usual beach bum attire:

[creep]

i think i'm the only guy that still smiles for pictures. i need to stop doing that.

[wally]

new workaholics tonight.

[creep]

new workaholics tonight.

it was my first time watching it tonight. it was pretty funny. i was cracking up when her water broke.

[creep]

the mavericks surf invitational is on today. they are expecting up to 40ft waves.

you can watch here at 8am pst. i have to work so i will miss it but the finals are on tv so i am recording that.

http://www.mavericksinvitational.com/

[Japhy]

the mavericks surf invitational is on today. they are expecting up to 40ft waves.

you can watch here at 8am pst. i have to work so i will miss it but the finals are on tv so i am recording that.

http://www.mavericksinvitational.com/

Yep, yep, yep!!! On-line from 4pm UK time... that's my whole evening sorted. Big-wave surfing is magical / brutal to watch.

[Matz]

fuck I'd love to see that, but it's 5am here....so little sport I can get excited about these days, but stuff like this is cool...and formula 1 in a couple of months ..

[Japhy]

fuck I'd love to see that, but it's 5am here....so little sport I can get excited about these days, but stuff like this is cool...and formula 1 in a couple of months ..

Where are you man... not Denmark? It starts in like 45 minutes (they've just officially called it on) so that's 5pm up there isn't it? I can't wait for it to start!

[Matz]

ah cool, its' on right now. I misread Creep's post as 8pm

[Warped]

17 years married today - and i have to make love to myself (the hubby still in rehab)...

[Larry B.]

17 years married today - and i have to make love to myself (the hubby still in rehab)...

Congratulations! I hope everything is going well... and you know, today it could be a good time for a trip to the nearest 'toy store'... if you catch my drift...