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 […]
by david on December 31, 2008
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 […]
by david on December 27, 2008
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 […]
by david on December 24, 2008
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 […]
by david on December 10, 2008
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 […]
by david on December 7, 2008
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, […]
by david on December 4, 2008
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 […]
by david on December 2, 2008