Lovemonkey Studios Blog

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

Month: March, 2008

Tomorrow, I might be on TV

I’ve been mean­ing to write this one up for a while. Right after I got home from Christ­mas Vaca­tion, I played a gig with Adam at the Red Eyed Fly. We had been told there was a real­ity show from the BBC com­ing to film some­thing there, but we didn’t really know what show, or […]

Obligatory SXSW post

So it’s South by South­west time in Austin, again. As all the major paper “blogs” report, Austin is now full of hip­sters, look­ing for the next big thing. I put “Blogs” in quotes because I don’t think a major paper can actu­ally have a blog. For exam­ple, the Chicago Sun-Times has twenty blogs listed on […]

Follow-up

I for­got to include a few things from the other night. 1) One thing that really cracked me up was the guy who was giv­ing us instruc­tions over the PA sys­tem. If you’ve never heard Barack Obama said with a Texas accent, you haven’t lived. I believe it’s pro­nounced Buh-Rock. But to this guy, it was […]

The Most Important Vote of my Life

For­give the hyper­bole. But let me brake this down for you. I’ve voted in four pres­i­den­tial elec­tions. I turned eigh­teen five months before the 1992 elec­tion, so I got to vote in that one. I voted in 1996, 2000, and 2004. But none of my votes really counted. in 1992 and 1996, I was liv­ing in […]