Guitar Lessons & …

The kind people of Unclutterer.com are showcasing my home studio as their Workplace of Week this week.  Check out their site for all of you Uncluttering needs.

Here are some concerts that I plan on attending. You should too:
Saturday, December 1 @ 8:00 pm:
Jazz Composers’ Alliance Orchestra
AT EMMANUEL CHURCH IN BOSTON
Friday, December 7th @ 11:00 PM:
Jupiter One
Great Scotts (The Pill)
Friday December 7 @ 7:30 PM:
Fluttr Effect The Trio
Serenata Chamber Musicians Winter Solstice Concert
Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church
155 Powder House Blvd Somerville, [...]

Heather Hughes, my good friend, poet, & housemate, has two poems up on Prick of the Spindle this month.  Check them out:
Contact
love, occasional

Come out and see my favoritist band ever: Jupiter One, this Wednesday at the Paradise Lounge!!!

I’ve been a little preoccupied with moving the past couple of weeks. Here are some things that have happened since we’ve last blogged:
I had a wallet made for me… Paddy Hartley, a visual artist in the UK, makes handmade, limited-edition wallets that use illustrations from atomic civil defense and public information films, experimental [...]

I’ve been on a nostalgia kick lately. Spring cleaning has turned into a walk down memory lane.

One of my old classmates from Berklee, K Ishibashi, released an album with his band, Jupiter One, a few years ago. Two of the songs are available for download through iTunes. I cannot get these songs out [...]

Valerie & I had some fun this week. We put together a semi-elaborate April Fools prank and launched her new website. I’m really excited about her new design and proud that I could help make it happen. After learning so much about Wordpress for her site, I think I’m going to do [...]

I’ve been re-reading my old transcription book from Ralph Towner and enjoying the fact that I’m getting better every 5 years as a guitarist. I remember this book used to be impossible for me. Now it just merely kicks my ass.
I ordered Ralph’s second transcription book, and received in the mail today. [...]

I’ve never liked the idea of the “Desert Island Discs” question. It always seemed too silly and hypothetical for me.
Well, something changed inside me this evening. I was listening to Bill Frisell’s “Have A Little Faith” album, and thought about how much I loved this album. For the first time, I realized [...]

On December 29th, some friends and band members of Fluttr Effect suffered a fire at their home/workspace/artists’ loft.
Troy & Vessela’s place escaped fire damage, but was badly flooded from hours of firefighters extinguishing the fire. Most of their instruments survived but other equipment, books, clothes, bed and rugs were destroyed.
If you would like to [...]