How come nobody told me? It’s been almost a year.

http://www.smallbrownbike.com/

Yngwie Malmsteen is some cheese-metal shredder dude.

His website is amazing for two reasons.

1. It looks like a myspace page, but is not a myspace page

2. It features the artwork for his latest album (which apparently was designed by a 12 year old in 1986).

That’s all.

From the NY Times:

“Livonia, Mich., recorded the highest rate (of participation in the 2010 Census), 85 percent, among places with 50,000 or more people.”

That’s pretty exciting!

Well, my buddy Greg just linked to this site by a guy who spends his free time messing with people on Craigslist.

This one is hilarious.

Some of them are less funny. Maybe I should’ve linked to those first, then that one. Oh, well.

I think this might be a joke, but I can’t tell. Maybe it’s an outward expression of an inside joke.

Drummer from the Sword posted this:

I’ve totally lost my mind and decided to offer drum lessons here in Austin.
My rates are very economical starting at $40/hr.

I am only interested in SERIOUS students who want to WORK and learn how to really destroy on both the mental and physical planes.

Here’s my email:

wingoschool@​gmail.​com

DO NOT:
1.) REPLY TO THIS POST.
2.) ABUSE THIS EMAIL ADDRESS - ONLY THOSE SERIOUSLY INTERESTED IN INSTRUCTION SHOULD CONTACT ME - THIS IS NOT FOR FAN TRIVIA.

Best Regards,
Trivett Wingo

Happy Bidding!

Come to the Lager House Saturday, and see if a local bidder wins it.

You probably haven’t heard, but Ted Weber passed away last Friday. 

He was a speaker builder, the founder of Weber Speakers, and quite an innovator when it came to guitar tone. I’ve got 3 of his California Series speakers in various speaker cabs. They sound great.

Here’s a link to is obituary. 

The best part is that he was a hobbyist. Unlike Seymour Duncan or Bill Lawrence who were better known for their playing, before they started designing gear, Ted Weber worked at GM most of his life. He built a few guitar speakers for friends, and then things took off.

Coincidentally, Weber Speakers is in the midst of a 10% off sale.

Did anyone see the most recent episode of “So You Think You Can Dance” on Fox? They all had Party Rats on. Seriously. They had full Party Rat outfits. It was awesome. I am jealous.

If so, you might be interested in this.

Child Bite will be performing with Young Widows tonight at the Lagerhouse. We’re all pretty lucky, because Young Widows rule.

Do me (and yourself) a favor, and just check them out. Even if you can’t come tonight. Just go here and check out “Old Skin,” maybe even watch the video. It’s a short song, only a 2-minute investment.

Let me be honest, I wasn’t thrilled with them at first. Clance talked them up a ton, so I was pumped to listen to them, but not sold upon my first few listens. But then that awesome thing happened, where I kept finding myself wanting to hear them. In the last month, I’ve gone to their myspace page and listened to the same five songs almost daily. So, needless to say, I’m very pumped to see them tonight, and to buy their record.

And that’s another benefit to not illegally downloading or pirating music (a practice I decided to put an end to in my life). That buildup. I haven’t felt that build up for a while. Because in the past, pretty much every record was immediately available to me, but this one isn’t. Clance has it on his ipod, so I got to listen to it on a recent weekend outing, but generally, it’s been something that I’ve really wanted but “couldn’t” have. I checked a couple record stores, couldn’t find it. I could order it, but it’d take a couple weeks, and I knew I was going to see them anyway. So I’ve been forced to wait. And it’s awesome, and I’m excited like a teenager.