Lovemonkey Studios Blog

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

Month: May, 2005

A tribute to my favorite Dive Bar

I’ve been think­ing about this blog post for a while. Some peo­ple like Ritzy bars, with pretty walls and clean bath­rooms. Some peo­ple like Dive bars, with stained walls and bath­rooms that make you need to go get vaci­na­tions just to go it. I like both. I’m happy in either one really. As long as they have […]

Screw the stupid friends Blues jam!!!

God this pisses me off. I went to Friends on 6th street on Sun­day night. They have a blues jam there, and I’ve played once or twice. I fig­ured it might be nice to get out and play a lit­tle, being that I’m not gig­ging much right now. So I get there around mid­night, and […]

Screw ACL!!

So I live in Austin, TX. Great, famous music town. One of it’s crown Jew­els of music is the show Austin City Lim­its. 30 years old now, it’s had every­one and their cousin grace the stage. And I’ve never gone. I didn’t even know how to get tick­ets. The process is part trea­sure hunt, part […]

Mozart’s 4/30 — This is Re-god-damn-diculous

Orig­i­nal post May 2nd, 2005 So look­ing for­ward to a good show at Mozart’s, hop­ing to redeem a bit from the last one. Didn’t help that I was really exhausted. Had a late night fri­day, and had a early ses­sion on Sat­ur­day. Didn’t bother me too much, because I thought the ses­sion had to be over […]