First session

At the fantastic new Conrad Prebys Music Center, we had our first full tracking session in the new recording studio. (By they way, does that make all of us that use the music center “Prebysterians”…?) Anyway, …

Great Weekend…!

What a great weekend. Besides getting a lot of work done in the studio mixing Jeff Denson’s album, I had friends visiting to play gigs. Steuart Liebig, Bill Barret, Tony Atherton and Joe Berardi (The Mentones) …

Session with Jeff Denson and Brian McLaughlin

Saturday, March 21, I had a wonderful session with Jeff Denson (doctoral student here at UCSD) and Brian McLaughlin (awesome drummer from LA) at UCSD’s lovely Studio A. Our engineer was our friend and fellow doctoral …

Pu-erh Tea Markets hit hard…

Pu-erh tea is a joy for me, I drink it almost daily…and have for over ten years….so this news was shocking, from The Scotsman: *******************************Devastation left by Pu’er madness of green tea bubble Published Date: 15 …

Friday, Feb 13…

Unfortunately I will be bowing out of the gig Friday night due to a horrid case of the flu…BUT you all should go and see it, what a great band….I’m really bummed to miss it, 13 …

Bad week for drinking and playing chess…

My friend, and fellow grad student, Przemyslaw Bosak and I went out to drink some beer and play chess last night (highlights: Pliny the Elder, Allegash Black, and Pizza Port’s Hop 15 in cask). Luckily it …

What’s he got against zero-gravity chairs?

The list at the end of this post reminds me of the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge…I was reading a Lakoff text when I ran across mention of Borge’s Celestial Emporium’s taxonomy, that animals are categorized …