Filed under: General
it snowed here last night… so begins winter two back in the homeland… hah…
for the record – i’m not so much smitten with the snow…
the basement (and music room therein) is soon to be embarked upon but is as of now unfinished… as evidenced by the backdrop seen below – you’ll notice the “wall” treatment looks strangely reminiscent of an allied van lines moving blanket…
but being a smidge extra inspired as i mentioned in my previous post i thought i’d post a pic of my guitar-type amigos… i’m by and large a pretty non-material-possessions-influenced feller… my wedding ring and music stuff seem to be the exceptions… i’m pretty gosh darn attached to these… and i think they look kinda cool in a row (moving-blanket-wall aside) now that i got a couple of those guitar-hanger-thingies…
so i’ve become a very big fan of the “podcast” since getting my first ipod a while back… i’ve also become a huge fan of the “video podcast” since upgrading to the video version of the ipod this summer… i dig the fact that they’re free, my favorite price, and you can find such a wide array of subject matter… the wild production value variance often makes for lots of added interest as well…
i’ve been poking around and checking out lots of them-there new-fangled video-type ones lately… and as a “musician”, if i can call myself that, i’m really jazzed by some that i’ve found…
the most inspirational thing for me as far as music-creatin’ goes is seeing live music… and the more intimate the setting the better…
that being said… i’m totally into the interface from spinner.com… awesome roster of acts that drop by to play 3 or 4 songs and then do a little mini interview… my fave thus far would be spoon… a band whose praises i have been singing for a while now… and a band who love-of-my-life k and i narrowly missed going to see live a mere two weeks ago… next tour for sure…
anyway… this whole spinner deal has got me pretty jazzed… fun to watch… and inspiring at the same time… methinks a new bushrod song or two are on the way… perhaps an opportunity for some cross-continent collaboration mr. lacey???…
Filed under: Friends
best wishes from toronto folks… sorry we couldn’t be there… looking forward to a debrief of the day once folks have recovered…
Filed under: Friends
best wishes from toronto folks… sorry we couldn’t be there… looking forward to a debrief of the day once folks have recovered…
Filed under: Friends
best wishes from toronto folks… sorry we couldn’t be there… looking forward to a debrief of the day once folks have recovered…
Filed under: Aquarium
we got wave two of new fish today for our newly-designated cichlid tank…
a ruby red peacock (aulonocara (rubescens)) …
a trio of electric blue johanni (melanchromis cyaneorhabdos maingano)…
and some african non-cichlid catfish called synodontis multipunctatus… which are very cool…
and along the way on our aquarium adventures i’ve discovered cichlid-forum.com… a very good site dedicated to these new pals of ours…
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Filed under: Aquarium
as we’ve now moved to the stylin’ african cichlid based tank i thought i’d keep track of what we’re adding and we’ve got in there…
cichlid-wise… last weekend we added 2 demasoni (pseudotropheus demasoni)… 2 yellow labs (labidochromis caeruleus)… and a pair of hap ahli (sciaenochromis ahli)…
and the only non-cichlid addition of the week … a redtail black shark… (epalzeorhynchos bicolor)…
and our evidently super-hardy leftover pals the plecos (hypostomus plecostomus)are still in there doing very well…
we’re going back for cichlid-addition round two on sunday… the plan is to add 6 more followed by another 6 the following week… at which point we’ll be fully stocked for the short term…
