Tag: music

Words, words, words, have you heard

23 July, 2014 (12:00) | Little Things

A few months back, I drove past a auto body shop called “Pair o’ Dice” and I thought that was a terrible name for a business.  Clever?  Sure.  But you’ll have to explain the name to every customer – let alone direct traffic to your website properly.  As I’m thinking more and more about the […]

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But the day that I die will be the day I shut my mouth and put down my guitar

13 September, 2012 (12:00) | Daddy Log

I’m sorry, Dad. There’s going to be a lot of things I should apologize to my dad for.  this will be the first one, that I’ve at least fully realized anyway.  Growing up, he had guitars that would just sit in cases and he’d never play them.  Once I got out on my own, I […]

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Hall’s Rule of Social Order #194

30 April, 2012 (12:00) | Hall's Rules of Social Order

A musical act should be rated against this rubric to determine their quality: Band’s name – 3% Band’s aesthetics (clothes, make up, hair, physical attractiveness, showmanship) – 7% Ability to attract listener’s attention (lyrical hooks, real life publicity, etc) – 10% Instrumental proficiency – 23% Originality/inspirational quality of lyrics – 26% Ability to perform live […]

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Hall’s Rule of Social Order #61

12 March, 2012 (12:00) | Hall's Rules of Social Order

There are only 3 requirements for a successful event or party: Something to eat Something to do A place to go to the bathroom   As soon as one of those is not present, the event will end.

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Kallie in Cali – A lonely husband’s log – Day 2

21 December, 2011 (21:58) | Personal Update

Today didn’t go quite how I wanted it to go.  I lost structure and got distracted and demotivated a lot.  We’ll see if I can get better for tomorrow. 7:30 am – Wake up for an 8:00am workday start from home Noon – quick jaunt to the local post office to send off some last […]

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The WHO – a LEGO brick mosaic

1 December, 2011 (12:00) | LEGO© Creations

This was part of a challenge this year to make something homemade for 5 people.  Adam’s always been a big Who fan.  Probably took 3 hours to design, build, and then glue.  

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