Archive for October, 2009
Quote Of The Week: Maurice Sendak
Posted in Quote of the Week on October 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SoCal Zombie Outbreak Reaches The Grapevine!
Posted in Uncategorized on October 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My friend Lisa from Castaic sent me some photos of last night’s Zombie Happening down there. Up here in Clovis we are still safe, the only zombies sighted were all staggering around the intersections and crosswalks promoting a Halloween Megastore over by the mall. I drove another block and spied a lone zombie limping across [...]
Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Blue Oyster Cult, Harry Stinson, Kenny Vaughn, Marty Stuart, Paul Martin on October 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Marty Stuart is a thoughtful, driven man. Make no mistake he has talent down to the bone, but he knows talent will only get you so far and Marty Stuart wants everything. He wants your soul baby.
Driven? Consider the year 1970 and an 11 year old Marty asking his mom to buy him a bright [...]
Quote Of the Week: Howard Roberts
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Howard Roberts on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Got a sound in your head? Play it with heart, and it’ll come out of your hands. Hear it? Play it. The only thing stopping you is you.”
Howard Roberts
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2009
Posted in Nothing Says California Like, Outdoors, Showbiz on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We had a great day in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The weather was sunny, the crowd was big and friendly and the music was for the most part incredible. We just breezed right in to the foot of the Golden Towers Stage thanks to the efforts of some gracious friends that had gotten [...]
A Moment Of Silence: Amy Farris
Posted in A Moment Of Silence on October 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Getting ready for our annual pilgrimage to San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival , we were saddened to learn of Amy’s passing from friends. A beautiful musician.
“She could do it all,” Alvin said. “She was a great string arranger. She would multitrack the violin and viola and everything else and suddenly you’ve got the L.A. [...]
