Well, i was going to post these yesterday, but never got around to it with work and everything else.  So here’s some tunes for you to listen to.  Hope you enjoy.

• Waiting
• Desperation
• The Boneyard
• It’s Not Unusual (that’s right a little Tom Jones for you)

And if anyone’s interested, i set up www.cafepress.com/sweetwoodgroove so you can go and git you some duds.

So sometimes you’re just trying to help yourself out and you cause that much more of a headache for yourself.  I was trying to upgrade the minimal blog software that I had installed here while I was out in Chicago.  I did a fine job of adding in a wysiwyg editor and everything was working wonderfully, until i looked @ the front end and realized that I’d hosed up everything there.  So I figured, well, that’s easy enough I’ll just re-upload the file that I’d overwritten.  Nope, can’t do that, I’d deleted them.  Okey dokey then, i’ll just go re-download them from the creator and then re-upload them.  Nope.  He’s deleted them from his site over the last month.  So now wtf do I do?  Well, I install WordPress and go from there.  So if you’ve noticed over the morning that there’s something screwy here, then now you know why.  Friggin’ technology.  I tell you what!  Now of course the design’s a little off as well, i’ll need to clean that up asap but in the meantime at least it ain’t broke (what’s the old addage, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.  or is it what can go wrong on a monday morning will go wrong on a monday morning.  or I can get a good look at a piece of steak by sticking my head up a cows ass but I’d rather take the butchers word for it)…  Ok, enough.  I’ll be posting some music from friday night later, if only i’d just written the HTML to show it rather than deciding i wanted to save myself some time I wouldn’t have these issues.

Oh, and update your RSS if you’ve got it, this one’s different…

Wow, listening to the radio this morning actually proved useful for work… http://www.designsnack.com Some amazing design work on there. If you’re feeling like you’re bogged down in crapola design, have a look there and feel worse about yourself. If you’re looking for a little inspiration, check out some of the sites on there and it should get you a little excited about designing.

Wow, we woke up yesterday morning and had a little bit of snow. No big deal, but it snowed all day yesterday and all night and it’s still snowing. It’s fairly warm outside so as soon as you’re down the hill (about a mile away) it’s just raining. Up here, we’ve got this though:

Here’s the view looking at the house:

And finally, here’s the driveway…

Well, i’ve got a new band that I’m pretty excited about. Sweetwood Groove is going to be making our debut this friday @ the Summit in Hereford PA. You can get a sample of some of the music here. (I know, I know, it’s myspace, but what can i say… It’s free!) I’ve been playing with these guys for a little over 3 months at this point, in that time we’ve written 8 or so new songs together and tweaked ones that they had as well as some of the ones that I’ve had over the years as well. Style wise, it’s fairly similar to stuff that I’ve written in the past, but a little more complicated. Tim, the other guitar player has a great jazz sensibility so there’s a lot of that thrown in there. We’re going to be looking at doing some recording for a demo here in the next couple of months. I’ll keep you posted on what’s up there. In the meantime, i’ll be recording the show this friday so you can enjoy what you heard, or you can hear what you missed.

Sheesh, I just can’t believe it’s November. We’ve been working on all sorts of ideas for fun stuff to do w/ standingstone, but just haven’t been able to find the time. Keep an eye out for http://www.melonchoice.com though, it’s gonna be a hell of a lot of fun. The new band that I’m working with finally settled on a name. Sweetwood Groove will be playing our first gig Nov 16. I set up a MySpace page, (i know, i know, it’s cliched at this point, but F it, it’s free) http://www.myspace.com/sweetwoodgroove I got the new Bruce Springsteen CD, Magic. Damn. Damn. Damn. Is that guy good. I’m enthralled with the disc. Check it out. If you’ve got somethign that you want to recommend to me. Let me know. I’ve got a gift certificate for iTunes that I want to use, but I just can’t seem to find anything that is grabbing me. Things that have been on constant rotation of late, Springsteen’s new one, The Hold Steady’s Boys and Girls in America, Soulive’s There’s No Place Like Soul and a couple of others.

http://weyerbacher.com It’s a sad state of affairs, but it’s great to see the brewery being so honest.