Lovemonkey Studios Blog

The life of an Austin working musician, recording engineer, general music whore, and Breakfast Taco fiend.

A few short thoughts on Texas weather

I’m watch­ing my favorite local weather man (Whatssup Bur­ton Fitzsim­mons? You’ve lost some weight, so you bet­ter get that suit tai­lored. You’re look­ing like David Byrne circa Stop Mak­ing Sense) And he had the fol­low­ing infor­ma­tion: 1) Next week is going to be drier than nor­mal. 2) There’s a cold front com­ing in this weekend. […]

How does this always happen?

It’s amaz­ing. All of a sud­den three months have gone by with­out a blog entry. I don’t mean it to be so long, it just hap­pens. Some of it is, I’m sure, the rise of Face­book, and to a lesser extent Twit­ter. I don’t use Twit­ter a ton, but it does seem like blogs are […]

I love total randomness.

Some­times, things hap­pen that are so amaz­ingly ran­dom, it’s hard to believe it actu­ally hap­pened. So here’s my cur­rent exam­ple. On cam­pus at work today, the film teacher walked by me, and was say­ing to his stu­dents “wow, it’s hot. It’s like Texas hot.” As often hap­pens to me, this made a scene from a […]

The Minotaur and me…

I’ve had some unusual things hap­pen to me while cycling, but this is going to rate as the weird­est. I was rid­ing my moun­tain bike around some trails on the cam­pus of the school I work at, when I came around a cor­ner and saw this: As I stared at it, and it stared back at […]

Anthony Bourdain: Concert Review

Ok, so it’s not a Con­cert Review, but I did go to see Anthony Bour­dain last night, and it was a fas­ci­nat­ing expe­ri­ence. It’s hard to describe how some­one could be so snarky and yet so inspi­ra­tional all at once. As the lead­ing pro­po­nent of “Food Porn” (not at all a dirty term. Trust me. […]

Ahead of the times, as usual.

I’ve had a few moments on this blog where I’ve writ­ten about things and then seen them appear in major media, and it’s hap­pened again. This time, I’m 4 years ahead! On June 23rd, 2006, I wrote the fol­low­ing arti­cle on my addic­tion to break­fast tacos as well as reviews of my favorite local taco […]

Blogging backstage

I’m cur­rently sit­ting back­stage for another musi­cal gig. I’m play­ing lit­tle shop of hor­rors for my school, and hav­ing a blast. It’s funny, I haven’t played a musi­cal in 4 years, then I book two in five months. It’s been really fun because also in the band is trevor and jes, whom i play with […]

Beatles Review: With The Beatles

With the Bea­t­les was the sec­ond Bea­t­les album, released six months after Please Please Me. This was a proper multi-track record­ing as opposed to the one shot record­ing of Please Please Me. Inter­est­ingly, this album fea­tures the same ratio of orig­i­nal songs to cov­ers, with 8 orig­i­nals and 6 cov­ers. With the excep­tion of Beatles […]

I Promised myself I wouldn’t cry…

Tonight as I was dri­ving home from get­ting my car fixed (new radi­a­tor, thank you to my old one for just ooz­ing and not actu­ally blow­ing up) I started lis­ten­ing to a album I pro­duced back in 2003. I hadn’t lis­tened to it in a few years, and I really enjoyed it. And it’s country! […]

Rockin’ whatever…

Last night, I played at a pizza place called the Rockin’ Tomato. Their tele­vi­sions were show­ing snow­board­ing, so I was watch­ing the fly­ing tomato. Any other tomato metaphors to be had?