Casa Vista post 1

So apparently their is this thing called "music blogs". According to a reporter for the Austin Chronicle they are all the "new rage." I read about it on wikipedia and then I figured it was time to get in on the action. Call it "That Reverse X-Rays Kid," or call it "the lease is already signed on Rancho Relaxo but that was taken" (ranchorelaxo.blogspot.com ... lets see if this blog gets better). Really what made me excited to do this was the discovery that there are now blog aggregates that you can link to like Rotten Tomatoes, except for music blogs. Once this gets going a bit I will do that (elbo.ws and the hype machine are the two that wikipedia had listed)

So where am I tonight? I played music with Taft and some of his friends for the first time. They have a nice set up on 28th and a half. They've got a piano but the highlight was these Gibson acoustic guitars. Those guys have a Dylan vibe and can all sing. They are playing their first show proper at the Parlor in about a week, but I dont think they have a name yet. There was a party at Jenny Alvorado's tonight that the Strange Boys played among others but I couldn't go because I had my second to last shift of work for Jimmy Johns. I locked my keys in the car on the job which was embarassing. Shane went and said it was cool.

Tomorrow morning (eer...in a few hours) my mom is going to drive me to Fort Worth where we are going to watch my Uncle Martin compete in the Van Cliburn piano competition. He is in the amateurs bracket but its already a big honor, because they only accept 75 amateur contestants to be juried. I think he must be practicing alot because he is going to play the piece that he won the Dallas High School piano player competition with back in the 60s and hes played it for me before but there were parts he couldn't get through. I'm excited, he goes on at 1:30.

I have mp3s I want to post here soon once i figure out how. One in particular that my recently ex-roommate and all around awesome guy Jeff Cooper ripped off my vinyl for me. Its a dub track off KTW Dub by Junior Dan.