Happy birthday with candy corn
Today is both my wife’s birthday (XOXO! HBD2U!) and Halloween. Yesterday baby Hailey finally got to come home. Amy and I spent most of the past week going back and forth to the hospital to see Hailey, but it has all been worth it. She was released from the NICU yesterday and is at home (Read more…)
All new music just this time
Lately I’ve been getting a lot of emails from people that want me to post some of their music. I can honestly say that I’ve listened to all of it and some is good and some is not so good (bad). Let me share some of this new music with you and just maybe you’ll (Read more…)
Short and sweet
Sun Kil Moon has a new record coming out November 1st. It is an album made up entirely of Modest Mouse covers. Now Mark Kozelek has already released and album of Bon Scott-era AC/DC covers, but on this new album, Tiny Cities, he reinterprets Issac Brock’s songs and makes them his own. I’ve only heard (Read more…)
Billy Reubens played third
Seattle based Rocky Votolato is not your typical singer-songwriter. He is a touring musician and a father of two. His music is honest, comforting, and familiar like your favorite pair or old jeans. You know, the one with the hole in the pocket. He began playing in the emo-punk band Waxwing in 1996 and although (Read more…)
A white sox winner
Can You See the Sunset From the Southside? Chicago White Sox fans certainly can. The sun has set on their magical season and despite the fact that I am a Cubs fan, I can’t help but get caught up in their amazing post-season run. They won the World Series. That is amazing. It might also (Read more…)
A heaping spoonful of emo (vol. 6)
I just had a baby (see previous post) and I haven’t felt this “emo” in years (LOL). That’s why the sounds of these two bands are just really getting me today. Get Up Kids were from Kansas City and throughout their career played music that began as simple poppy post-hardcore but (as they matured) became (Read more…)
Hailey Elyse is here
Yesterday (Saturday) afternoon my wife and I welcomed the newest addition to our family into the world. Canon EOS Digital Rebel, 50mm fixed, 1/100sec at f/1.8 Haily Elyse was born at 5:42 PM CST on October 22, 2005. She was 19-1/4 inches long and weighed in at a whopping (to us at least) 5 lbs. (Read more…)
Jeff Tweedy live at the Vic
Here is a picture from my trip to the Morton Arboretum to see what little fall color was there. Canon EOS Digital Rebel, 28-80mm, 1/4000sec at f/4 OK. I’ve finally gotten a chance to post the entire 35 songs from the Jeff Tweedy solo performance (featuring Wilco) at the Vic Theatre in Chicago on March (Read more…)
Looking down and to the left
Baby Update: Amy is being prescribed a healthy dose of bed rest, but has been taken off of the Terbutaline (SP?) so at least her heart palpitations have ceased. We are still playing the baby waiting game. It could be tonight or it could happen two weeks from now. Who knows. She is hella uncomfortable (Read more…)
