Music
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Johnny Cash
MySpace is streaming the soon be released final Johnny Cash album this weekend, it’s here http://www.myspace.com/johnnycash. It’s the final Rick Rubin/American record.
It’s being released on July 4th.
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Cracker Soul
Saw Cracker at the Variety Playhouse last night in a very wonderful show. They only did two songs off Countrysides, but that’s my only complaint.
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Sunday rapid fire
- Create Visio diagrams programatically
- An interesting interview with Frank Miller
- Creepy pictures from North Korea
- A new studio album from Ramblin’ Jack Elliot!
- I rode past this last week.
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New gallery – HoundogRadio.com party
Not my best work, but some of them turned out well. I only got shots of the A-Sides and the Luxury Kings. -
Last night’s open mic
It went very well. I didn’t win, but everything was well received, and the playing and singing were good. For some reason the bass drops out in the monitors, but other than that, it was good fun. I did Magnolia Wind, Left Alone, Waitin’ Round to Die, Red Clay Halo and Walkin’ Cane.
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Quote of the moment
“Money doesn’t talk, it swears”.
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Victory was mine (somehow)
I did the open mic last night at Limerick. I played a rather weak set of Walkin’ Cane, my Tom Waits’ song, the new one (Left Alone) and Raining this Morning. Somehow I won.
I’m going to be practicing the songs instead of the flatpicking all week now.
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The power and glory of YouTube
In case anyone has wondered what I’m trying to do on the guitar, this video of Doc and Merle Watson says it all.
Also, check out these videos of the Velvet Underground (with Nico) doing acoustic versions of Heroin and Femme Fatale in 1972.
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Last night’s open mic
Not so good. I couldn’t hear my guitar in the monitors, and my playing was a bit off because of it. It was a noisy, but nice crowd. The previous act was having problems too. Evidently the problems were only noticeable to me. I did the usual material.
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Friday rapid fire
- Reno 911 is popular in Iraq of all places. It seems they think it’s real.
- A nice collection of flatpicking tablature, all in Tabledit format.
- Hounddog Radio seems cool.
- View System Uptime.
- A nice article on using curves and levels in Photoshop.