Lovemonkey Studios Blog

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

Category: Personal

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 […]

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! […]

The update is coming, I promise…

And if this works, it means I can blog from my phone, which is pretty awe­some. And as another test, that’s the awe­some Span­ish tor­tilla my wife made yes­ter­day. And I need to stop using the word awesome.

December 30th, 11:19pm.

I’m cur­rently in Puerto Rico spend­ing the hol­i­days with my wife’s fam­ily. She and I spent a few days on Ponce, the city where we got mar­ried. On the night of Decem­ber 30th, we were in our 3rd floor room in the Hotel Melia when the fol­low­ing hap­pened at 11:19pm: Need­less to say, this was […]

The Ultimate Road Trip Guide

I like hyper­bole, so I admit that the title above is a lit­tle over the top. This isn’t the Ulti­mate Road Trip Guide (URTG from here on), or even close. These are just a series of thoughts and guide­lines I had while tak­ing a Thanks­giv­ing road trip to Florida. 1) Why am I qual­i­fied to […]

In which I write my annual Mopey “I miss Fall” Blog post

I miss Ithaca right now. I’ll go ahead and say it. I know I write the same blog on this par­tic­u­lar sub­ject every year (2006 is here.) And now that I’ve looked through my old blog entries, I don’t seem to write about it every year. I was totally sure I had. I didn’t want […]

Where the Hell have I been?

I’m back! I’m so sorry I’ve been gone so long. It hasn’t been inten­tional. I had some tech­ni­cal issues with my blog. I don’t really need to dis­cuss them here, let’s just say it took awhile to get worked out. I’m pretty sure the Russ­ian Mafia was involved. Any­way, it wasn’t the worst thing to […]

A Sad Day

Can any­one guess what this is and why it makes me sad?

A few notes on Politics

I read this very inter­est­ing arti­cle in the New York Times about the way the White House is chang­ing under Obama. The fol­low­ing quote caught my eye: “Under Mr. Bush, punc­tu­al­ity was a virtue. Meet­ings started early — the for­mer pres­i­dent once locked Sec­re­tary of State Colin L. Pow­ell out of the Cab­i­net Room when Mr. […]

Turning Lemons into Lemon Popsicles

Quick Note: This post was mostly writ­ten almost a month ago, but it took me a while to fin­ish it. Then I fin­ished it, and it took me a while to get around to post­ing it. So finally, here it is. I was fly­ing from Austin to Kennedy to Burling­ton for Christ­mas with the LMF […]