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Right on down the line…

October 22, 2012

Wow Monday is really, really bright.

Moved Kahuna’s amp out of the closet and into my office. Looks cool and is much easier to get at when he wants to play, but the best part is now I have more room in my closet for boots!

Actually it is more like now I have room in the closet to actually put my boots inside. It isn’t that I have so many boots, it’s that everything (non-boot related) in the apartment we don’t have space for winds up in our closet. We went so many years without closets that I think we sort of view ours as a spare room, instead of the place you hang your clothes.

Credit for finding the featured vid goes to Cassie Taylor. She was tweeting the vids she was watching this morning and she shared Three Stripes on a Cadillac by her dad, Otis Taylor.

(If you pull the blog on a feed you can check out the video here)

Okay, so I found this:

Please tell me Kate is wearing thigh-high boots because that would be so awesome…

Then I died of squee overload.

- Kit

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The Week in Music…Blogs – July 21 to July 27, 2012

July 28, 2012

I pretend this is moment Jimmy read my tweet.

Last night I watched the StageIt concert with Jimmy Buffett and it was so very cool.

The StageIt crew (along with Evan Lowenstein) set up in Jimmy’s dressing room at Comerica Park in Detroit.

Mike Utley hung out and Matt Hoggatt showed up to sing one of his songs.

Jimmy sang Tin Cup Chalice and Boat Drinks. He also read tweets aloud as they went by and now everyone watching knows I was eating soup right before the show.

( I didn’t know Jimmy would see the pre-show tweets or I would have, you know, sent something clever or cool…or just not weird)

The show was a lot of fun and Jimmy raised over 20,000 for charity. Yea!

In the world of music blogs -

Emma Warren from Music and Words by Emma Warren described the opening ceremonies of the London 2012 Olympics and went over a good bit of the music played for the event.

Eddie Baranak from The Sights is keeping a tour diary. His latest entry has quite a few photos and general ‘on the road’ stuff.

American Blues Scene interviewed Big Llou Johnson on his new album, They Call Me Big Llou, his acting, B.B. King, the Just Blues Music Awards and his radio and announcing work. The entire interview is available to steam from the site as a podcast.

Autopsy IV from ninebullets.net asks the readers to Gimme Your Top 5 Of The First Half Of 2012 and also lists his choices.

Rachel from Adobe and Teardrops interviewed singer/songwriter Hannah Aldridge on her music, her family and her new EP, Wanderer. Rachel also streamed two tracks from the EP.

I am going to finish up with the new Gaslight Anthem vid:

- Kit

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I was hangin’ ’round town, just spendin’ my time…

July 8, 2012

Ryan Bingham not only drives your grandpa’s car, he uses your grandpa’s cool Fender amp as well…

- Kit

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It’s a beautiful day for a ball game…

June 14, 2012

Michael Wacha - One of many brand new baby redbirds acquired in the recent draft.

- Kit

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Iron Man lives again…

June 4, 2012

Sooo…Robert Downey, Jr is standing approximately two (2) hours away from where I am sitting at this very moment. Okay, okay – I assume he is standing. He could be sitting or running or banging on prop movie metal with a prop movie hammer. The point is…uh, I know had a point.

YES, the point is if I had a south facing window I could stare directly at the movie sets. I can’t see them of course (refers back to the two hours away statement) but that doesn’t change the fact that they are there.

Iron Man 3 is filming in Wilmington, NC well…right now. Sigh. I knew the whole “if I can’t go to Gulf Shores for vacation I don’t want to go to the beach at all” thing would backfire on me.

Huh…Kahuna popped in for lunch and according to his phone compass (I know, right – but I love him anyway) our big wall-o-windows faces SE so I actually can stand in the sunroom and look SOUTH to Wilmington!

Hey RDJ, I am watching you!

Er…that came out way more creepy and stalker-y than I intended. Great…now if I ever accidently run into him at the market while on an emergency goldfish cracker run I’ll feel all awkward and weird. Not awkward enough to let him have the last bag of goldfish, but still…weird.

Most guys have cars...Stark has flying armors.

I wish we had a little more info on the villain or villains. I am cool with pretty much anyone except the Living Armor ’cause that storyline creeps me out. I also wish Marvel would release more pics and such but they like to relay info on their movies a drop at a time.

- Kit