Lovemonkey Studios Blog

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

Month: November, 2006

Will Rogers, Guitar Sage

I’ve been in the mid­dle of assem­bling a effects ped­al­board, which I’ll write about at some point, like when it’s done. In the mean­time, I’ve been cruis­ing a bunch of pedal sites for infor­ma­tion, and I found this at at site called ANaLoG­man. So I thought I’d reprint it for your enjoy­ment. The Wis­dom of […]

Happy Feet!

Pic­ture if you will, two movie Pro­duc­ers sit­ting around, brain­storm­ing ideas for movies. “Hmm” one of them says, “I have an idea for a movie. How about we take Moulin Rouge, but make it about Pen­guins?” “Awe­some!” says the other. “How about we add a lit­tle bit of Lord of the Rings too!” “Totally fab! Maybe […]

Six Degrees

I played another show with Alli­son at Nuno’s last Thurs­day (The one before Thanks­giv­ing) and this one came out pretty spe­cial, so I wanted to write about it. For one, we got there a few hours early to set up and rehearse a bit, which really made me happy. It was nice to be able […]

Ben Folds Concert Review Pt. Deux

So on fri­day Novem­ber 3rd I embarked to my sec­ond Ben Folds con­cert in a year. I saw him last Novem­ber at Bass con­cert hall on UT cam­pus, and you can read that review here. But tonight’s show was again at Stubb’s. Let’s start with two quick facts about this show: 1) It was cold. Maybe […]

My Favorite Quote Ever!!

I was watch­ing an episode of a new show the other night called 30 Rock. Not 3rd Rock, there are no Aliens. This is one of the two new shows about a Sat­ur­day night live style TV show (but not Sat­ur­day night Live, both shows go out of their way to point that out). The […]