Real Name: Tim Lara Member Since: July 20, 2005 Last Signed In: November 29, 2008 Profile Views: 833 Blog Views: 4849 Another NaNo WriMo done... NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH IS ALMOST A WRAP I don't follow trends, I set them... Here's my new stance What's in a name? I wish it was NEWS to me PAX 2008 Apparently no one checks these things You can take me out of Texas, but you can't take Texas out of me... Tropic Thunder... RIP Isaac Hayes July 05 August 05 September 05 October 05 November 05 December 05 January 06 February 06 March 06 April 06 May 06 June 06 July 06 August 06 September 06 October 06 November 06 December 06 January 07 February 07 March 07 April 07 May 07 June 07 July 07 August 07 September 07 October 07 November 07 December 07 January 08 February 08 March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 January 09 
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It's been a surreal couple of days.
For some strange reason, I keep running into people I have not seen in about 11 to 12 years. They are all from my youthful past.
Some are from previous bands, my first guitar player now works in a department store, and an old bass player drifts into a local show looking very "Austinian 6th street" to replace his former "the closet attacked me" look he wore so well. It is strange to see them, we have everything and nothing to talk about.
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The Nowhere Heroes are a punk rock band out of Shiner Texas. They are a great bunch of kids all around high school age. They have played all over Texas, and tomorrow night, in a small humble venue, they will play their last show.
I guess they will pass on with the rest of garage and punk rock bands that start and dissolve over the years in our local area. They will have their fliers and demo CD’s left behind as proof they existed. I find this both sad
and exciting. The band is going on to...
British schoolchildren and theatre festival audiences are being exposed this month to an updated rap version of "The Canterbury Tales" as told by a Canadian.
There is so much wrong with that sentence... I don't know where to begin.
(Thanks Mark, for bringing this to my attention)
Some time last week, I wrote a little something about how your favorite
music store chains sell certain wall and floor space to record companies.
How fitting that less than a week after the fact, record label giant Sony
BMG has decided to settle in a case that has uncovered the record company
offering payola to radio stations in exchange to play certain songs by the
artists on their label. According to a probe that was launched by...
I just saw the new movie trailer for "Walk The Line". It's a movie about Johnny Cash. I can't tell you how happy that makes me.
I have a special place in my heart for the man. He has chronicled my life without ever knowing me. During my outlaw years, I became (or so I like to imagine...) the people in his songs. During my years of traveling with a band (we're still out there), his road songs were up and on the stereo. Every time a girlfriend left my life for good, well, he had a song...
I’ll be leaving to Austin to go see a concert tonight. It is one of many that I have attended since I first saw the magic of a live band years ago. Every time I get ready to go to one that is out of town it takes me back.
Back to when I was young, and Rock and Roll was still new to me. We gathered the crew and were ready to leave by the time school got out. We always piled into someone’s car and made sure we stopped somewhere for gas and something to eat before we hit the city...
The next time you are in your local music store take a good look around. The whole place is designed to get you to buy something (no big suprise, although you would have to admit some of the subtle ways they do so is pure genius on the floor planner's part).
Perhaps the most interesting thing about a music store is their "Top Seller display". Different stores call them different things... "Hit Walls" "Top 20" etc... but did you know that the way the artists are selected to be on the...
I read a lot. As often as I can, although with my current lifestyle I am not a very fast reader. If I am lucky, I can finish about 30 novels a year.
That being said, life is too short to read bad books. Currently, I am reading the latest installment of the "Harry Potter" series. It came out 5 days ago, and I'm only on page 335 of a 652 page book.
Of course it seems anything worth a second look these days seems to be shrouded in contoversy. Harry Potter and friends are no exception. Looking...
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