Lovemonkey Studios Blog

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

Month: December, 2008

Things you see in Puerto Rico on New Years Eve

Puerto Rico is going to be a fun place to spend New Year’s eve, and the island takes on a very fes­tive qual­ity. Here’s a few exam­ples of some of the things I’ve seen. 1) When I was here last sum­mer, I ate a won­der­ous thing called Lechon. A Lechon is a whole pig slow roasted […]

Global Warming!!

I’ve been writ­ing a series of posts over the last month about strange things that keep hap­pen­ing to me, but this might take the cake. I was walk­ing in down­town Burling­ton today when I saw a squir­rel run in front of me. He was car­ry­ing some­thing large and dark in his mouth which caught my […]

The Best Christmas present ever!

So pic­ture the scene: It’s Christ­mas 1987, and a 13 year old gui­tar player is hop­ing for a new gui­tar. He’s cur­rently play­ing two dif­fer­ent gui­tars. One, which was his first gui­tar, was a Bent­ley Series 10 with an Eddie Van Halen paintjob. The other is a 50 dol­lar Cort knock off of a Gibson […]

Coldplay part 2

So the Cold­play thing is turn­ing out to be a pretty big deal. The youtube clip I posted the other day has gone up to some­thing like 1,700,000 plays. Satri­ani has spo­ken pub­licly and said that he con­tacted Cold­play months ago, but never got any kind of response (accord­ing to this arti­cle from NPR.) So […]

Coldplay stole a song!

From Gui­tar Hero Joe Satri­ani, of all peo­ple. A trained ear can usu­ally tell this kind of thing, and it’s too bla­tant to be coin­ci­dence. You can see the com­par­i­son below. The jury says Guilty! I never really cared for Cold­play, and I think I like them even less now! I hope Satch gets a […]

Just like the Television Wormhole…

Do you know that weird thing that hap­pens when you aim a video cam­era at a Tele­vi­sion which is mon­i­tor­ing the video cam­era? It looks a lit­tle like there’s a open­ing to another uni­verse or some­thing, right? I think that’s the point of this post. I saw Ari­anna Huff­in­g­ton on the Daily Show last night, […]

The Weirdness continues…

This after­noon, I was dri­ving down high­way 290 in Austin on my way back home, and I saw some­thing I’d never seen before. It appeared that a whole box of Christ­mas orna­ments that had fallen out of a truck and shat­tered all over the road. I couldn’t tell what it was until I saw one […]