Monthly Archive for December, 2006

5 good albums

the following are examples of 5 wonderful albums i purchased this year. the links go to the album they are from. lots of great music out there - find it.

darc mind track 1 - visions of a blur

cold war kids track 3 - tell me in the morning

tapes ‘n tapes track 3 - insistor

tv on the radio track 5 - wolf like me

built to spill track 1 - goin’ against your mind.

Shows 2006

February 3, 2006 girth and ghidra @ blue moon tavern
February 10, 2006 sum mo’ records presents superfly live @ lofi
February 15, 2006 the atomic bombshells
@ the triple door
February 19, 2006 the suffering fuckheads @ sunset tavern
February 23, 2006 reggie watts @ the triple door
February 24, 2006 The Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey & The Dead Kenny Gs @ Tractor Tavern
March 3, 2006 Crack Sabbath @ The Rainbow
March 7, 2006 dengue fever @ chop suey
March 9, 2006 greyboy allstars @ the showbox
May 8, 2006 das rut @ high dive
May 12, 2006 Bobby Previte’s Coalition of the Willing @ The Tractor Tavern
May 15, 2006 das rut @ high dive
May 19, 2006 The Young’s and Bill Patton and the Credentials @ The Rendezvous
May 20, 2006atma & PK and the Electric Army @ TosT

May 22, 2006 das rut @ high dive
May 29, 2006 das rut @ high dive
June 2, 2006 NOMO @ Tractor Tavern
July 29, 2006 ween / flaming lips @ redrocks
August 24, 2006 Skerik’s Syncopated Taint Septet @ Tractor Tavern
September 22, 2006 mmw @ the moore
upcoming

Books 2006

January 2006

    arthur c. clarke & stephen baxter / the light of other days
    ken macloed / engine city
    ian m. banks / the algebraist

February 2006

    john perkins / confessions of an economic hitman
    haruki murakami / south of the border, west of the sun

March 2006

    haruki murakami / Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
    haruki murakami / Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
    geoff ryman / Air: or, Have Not Have
    elizabeth royte / garbage land: on the secret trail of trash
    John C. Wright / Orphans of Chaos

April 2006

    Charles Stross / the atrocity archives

May 2006

    haruki murakami / a wild sheep chase
    margaret atwood / oryx and crake

June 2006

    steve rinella / the scavenger’s guide to haute cuisine
    sherman alexie / ten little indians
    tom reiss / the orientalist
    jane jacobs / the death and life of great american cities
    David McCullough / The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
    vernor vinge / rainbows end
    charles stross / Merchant Princes #3: The Clan Corporate

in progress

the economist

I’d like to thank whoever sent me a subscription to the economist. Ha ha, I also think it’s a fitting issue to get first, “Happiness.”

I love this magazine but in the past haven’t got a subscription because it is quite spendy and it is a whole lot of reading to do in a week. I buy it once a month or so and immerse myself in it. Now I’ve got steady reading for the next year. Once again, thanks!

heat miser

halloween 2004

born again

This incident led me on a search for a new benz. There were times where I felt I was going to sell myself short and other times where I thought nothing would ever come my way. Granted, it was only two months, but I get impatient when I know what I want yet I can’t get it. Hopefully, this will serve me well. I was able to find and purchase another Mercedes 300D, it’s a year earlier than my first one but only has 210,000 miles on it. This beauty is cream. The lady I bought it from was the original owner. She used to have personalized plates that said “GYPCLDY”.

We’ll give it another try and hope that an unfortunate accident does not befall this classic.

benzbenzfrontback

iowa

I went back to Iowa for a few days. Was able to pack a good amount of stuff in. I saw the family and got to hang out with Jadelyn (my niece). Currently, the complete entertainment package. We went up to Iowa City for a day to see Brad, Robin, Joe Dixon, Angie, Carl, Mena, Nellie, and Harris. Good Times. Was able to catch a Hawkeye game. The two shots of the game represent the exact moment before it all fell apart. Late in the first half up by four, the next play was a 62 yard pass for a touchdown. Sigh.

bamawinning almost losingtexas holdem homejadelyn and megan the family

And a quick video (I should rotate it but take what you can get.)

halloween

Better late than never. Posting has been a chore for one reason or another, here is a flurry of posts to get caught up on things I have done over the last month and a half.

The first set is halloween. I was a reborn elvis back fresh from a USO Tour in Iraq. megan was modest mouse and the man in the mask is el diablo verde. no one knows his true identity and i think no one really wants to know.

scary

good times disco

down for the count el diablo verde