Lovemonkey Studios Blog

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

Month: October, 2007

Fayetteville, Arkansas

So we didn’t win. Again. I’m not sure what to say. We played well. Really well. I guess I’ll do another chrono­log­i­cal type of thing. This hap­pened, at this point, a week ago. So yet another 7am flight. We flew to Hous­ton and just barely made our con­nec­tion. We didn’t even have time to get cof­fee, which […]

Happy Halloween!!

Three Points! part Deux

Due to the national mass media’s shock­ing igno­rance of my amaz­ing ath­letic feat yes­ter­day, I’m going to give every­one a lit­tle per­spec­tive. Ok, so here’s the view from my bal­cony. The Dump­ster is inside the wooden cor­ral. To be fair, when I made the throw, one of the doors was open. Now, here’s the view from […]

Three Points!

You won’t believe this, but I just threw a moldy pear off my 3rd floor bal­cony, across the park­ing lot, and into the dump­ster! Noth­ing but, well, dump­ster. I’d guess this a good 100 feet, plus 30 feet down. So there’s more than just arm strength involved! There’s a tra­jec­tory to take into con­sid­er­a­tion. Not […]

Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival

I’m cur­rently in a plane from Mem­phis to Hous­ton, and I thought I’d use my spare time to catch every­one up on the events of yes­ter­day. After I posted, we all took quick show­ers and got on the way to Tunica, which was about 45 min­utes from where the fes­ti­val in Helena was. It was […]

A Shot at Redemption

I want a shot at redemp­tion Don’t want to end up a car­toon In a car­toon grave­yard” Paul Simon — “You can call me Al” So you remem­ber all that stuff back in June when I went to Mem­phis and played this blues bat­tle of the bands? If not, you can recap it here, as well […]