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First footage from “Masks” by Pat Smith, Audio by me…
Hi All - here’s a sneak peek at the new film I’m working on with Pat Smith. This is the first time any finished footage from the movie has been seen anywhere… so tell your friends!
What’s “Masks” about? Eco-parable, psychodrama, or art-house horror movie? I guarantee only one thing: you won’t guess the ending.
Get stoked to see the finished movie in 2009, and stay tuned for more production news.
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A new review, from the dawn of time
I just ran into this review of my first EP, “Rich Girls” -
“Imagine if Bono decided to record a totally different sound folkie art album without the consent or help of The Edge. That
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Photos from the Cayucos Surfrider Show, inStar and the Bluff Rats!
Behold! Some photos from the recent show supporting SLO Surfrider - inStar played a set as a power trio (with the excellent addition of Wyatt on drums), and the Wadsworth Bluff Rats played too…
visit instarmusic.com and
http://www.myspace.com/thewadworthbluffrats
and slosurfrider.org for more!
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New Show! Oct 25th, Surfrider Free Fall Show with Shane Stoneman, Tropo, Mrs. Brown and more
Hey, just confirmed a New Show! Oct 25th, Surfrider Free-Fall Show with Shane Stoneman, Tropo, Mrs. Brown and more, in Central-Coast-tastic Cayucos, CA. We’ll be playing outside at the Pier (or in the Vets Hall if it rains). Lots of original art work will be for sale, and the usual great vibes and music of a Surfrider event. Come on out and enjoy the day.
We’re playing at 11:00 AM. Special treat - Wyatt Lund of SIKO will be joining me and Jordan, layering crushing funky drums over our loops, guitars, and pedal-boarding. This is going to be fun…
We’re hoping it will be like this, but sunnier… or with more pyrotechnics
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Show this Friday: Surfrider Party, with Jordan Martin
Hey, quick note to those on the Central Coast - I’m playing Friday (power-duo with Jordan Martin) at Surfrider’s new monthly event @ the SLO Down Pub in Arroyo Grande. It’s a great place - local and organic beer and booze, food, good vibes.
Surfrider is having a meeting @ 6:30 - you should come, they have a bunch of cool projects you can learn about and maby help with - and Jordan and I will go on afterwords, @ 7:30PM. Bass, flute, guitar, bongo, synth pedal, vocals.
Directions
MySpace Event Page
Horace the surf-swine says “Volunteer for Surfrider!”
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Live Oak Show was super-fun - see photos
Just got back from playing the Live Oak festival near Santa Barbara - man, that was fun. [ Thanks to Tyson and his brother for the excellent sound and lights, and Shevon for the head's-up about the
opportunity. ]
Jordan and I had a great time putting out a whirlwind of sound as a two-man army. We did it sans-drummer, so the two of us collectively played: guitar, bass, flute, loops, pedal synth, bongo, and voice. It was a work-out, but I’m liking this approach. Wonderful chill vibe, with thousands of folks camping under the trees. We’d play this event again in a heart-beat.
See photos below… Most images by Shelby Bohl, a few by me.
Poster
Here’s where it was…
Escort Leading us in…
Westys!
Welcome!
Got our Passes…
Excellent snacks, we were starved.
Enjoying a fancy American beer.
Stage Two
Tyson setting us up…
Sound check…
Starting Show…
Switching things up for Jordan’s songs, me on flute bass and pedal synth.
This kid was rocking out!
Great lighting
Setlist:
- Snow and Dust
- Georgia Straights
- Move On (Stella)
- Pacifier
- (switch to Jordan on guitar)
- Instrumental
- Broken Glass
- (switch back)
- ‘85
- So Gone
Came to the show? Say ‘hi’ and get some of the music you heard over at http://www.instarmusic.com
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Played in Big Sur @ the Henry Miller Museum
Driving through Big Sur this week, I chanced on an awesome open mic @ the Henry Miller Library and Museum, and got to play a few songs. Great pl
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Two New Shows - Live Oak Festival and Sustainabliltiy Festival
Hey there - so, I’m confirmed to play the Live Oak Festival on June 14th (Saturday). Playing with Jordan Martin on Bass (he’s moving up front from drums!) and Mark Folkrod on drums (he’s good! plays with lots of interesting bands!). This will be fun!
You should come!
Here’s the website: www.liveoakfest.org
Here’s an extra exclamation point: !
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A simple way to create a table of contents in Blogger.com
This is highly off the music topic, but it might be useful for someone.
I wanted my music blog to show one article on the main page, and then an table of contents of ALL the posts on the blog so visitors could click on them to read more.
This was AMAZINGLY difficult to do: Blogger.com by default shows ‘recent posts’, but these are subgrouped by month - and you have to click into the month to see the actual posts. Slow and boring, and while you can turn the month summaries off, there’s another problem - Blogger doesn’t show ALL the posts, just the last 10 or so.
There are a number of fancy hacks out there (like this one) that show you how to create a zoomable / flies-in, flies-out Table of Contents, but I just wanted a simple, always there list of all my posts.
Solution:
Feedburner’s Buzz Boost service. Feedburner is owned by Blogger (which is owned by Google), but it functions as a separate service. [ Seriously, why the division? ] Sign up, and enter your blog address as a ‘feed’. Then, click on the Publicize tab. Then click on Buzz Boost - this handy feature gives you a scrap of HTML so you can republish your blog anywhere you can paste in the BuzzBoost code. If you configure the BuzzBoost to display ALL the posts, with NO content (just the title) as shown in my example, you end up with… a table of contents!
Take the HTML from FeedBurner and post it back into your Blogger.com template, for example over on the sidebar if you’re using the new fancy Layouts mode. Note (n00bs) that you don’t just paste the code - you go to “layout”, create an HTML widget, then paste the code in there.
In my example, I created an HTML widget called “Older Posts” into which I inserted the BuzzBoost code.
What you’ll see is (awesomely!) that you now have an always updated TOC for your site - no need to screw around with fancy template hacks. It works! Problem solved, enjoy. Why Google/Blogger/Feedburner don’t make it easier to create a TOC, I don’t know.
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