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12/20/02
Hello, once more! Why the quick update? Why it's because Lott has resigned, he's done!

First I wanted to change up the 'autobiography' page and add a 'quick' and a 'long' page. Pick your poison. Plus I wanted to add a couple of new links. Look at the 'National Coalition Against Censorship'. Great sites with lots of info. Also look at 'From the Wilderness', a great political site! Great articles. Try out 'StickerGiant'. Not only have I bought alot of them, I've also laughed at alot more.

Well, that's it for now, bless ya all. Have a Happy Holiday and stay tuned for "a new axe" and also the unveiling of the Wet Willy Music Store, with shirts, stickers, mugs, ect ect!!!

peace and light

12/13/02
So, what's the secret word for today? Why it's 'Resign'. Read on, and learn about what a wonderful word this can be.

Yes, it's Friday the 13th, and a whole lot of spooky creatures are pulling a 'Jason' and rearing their ugly heads. Good news all around on this 'unlucky' day! It's damn lucky for me, read on: First, <a big yippie!!!> Kissinger has stepped down or <that's right> resigned!!! Now, this came today, this after long lulls of 'Evil-doers' having their way in the world, finally some good news. Now that's good tv.

And also, we have the whole Senator Trent Lott case picking up steam. One giant hellacious "Hell Yeah" from yours truly. He says he will not be giving up his leadership post, but as a restless public starts to speak out, ask questions and watch his little glasshouse collapse on him, only time, and his growing opposition will tell if he'll have to hang his ugly head in shame and resign. Let it be known that Lott voted against celebrating Martin Luther King with an official holiday. Here is a guy praising a man (Strom Thurmond) who ran on a segregationist platform. But, he "denounces racism". For a man who openly criticized Farrakhan for being a radical, he'll have to face up and answer for his own bullshit.

And as the Karma wagon goes round and round we have the horrible, abominable people in the 'Churchies'. Cardinal Bernard Law resigns! Pedophile archbishop will hit the bricks!   Good riddance and good luck in the here after. A couple of quick thoughts: How many of these sick human beings are still in the churches? And for every priest, cardinal, bishop ect ect that we do find out about, and all the lives they have ruined, how many will we never know of or hear about? Do we really have to argue about whether we should let these rapists have a "second" or "third" chance? Cardinal Bernard had 450 claims filed against him! 450!!!

Shame on the Church/Vatican for hiding, shielding and protecting these criminals! Pope John Paul was "deeply saddened" by Law's resignation. Ah, how sweet. Hundreds of evil transgressions and the guy with the funny hat is saddened by a sexual abuser! Pleaaassse!

I am a very spiritual person, but that spirituality has nothing to do with organized religion. I am a recovering Catholic.

I'm also not trying to condemn all priests, pastors ect, I'm positive that there are deeply religious humans who do want to speak, teach and live the word of God. But for all of you out there who have or are, willingly abusing the trust once so openly given to the clergy and have decided that it's not only okay but acceptable to sexually and mentally abuse anyone let alone children--I hope you enjoy your reservations, good for an eternity, seated in the hottest part of HELL!!! For all the rest, we're keeping an eye on you.

Ain't Karma a Bitch?

peace, love and light, have a Happy Xmas!

11/27/02
Well, hello, this very Turkey's Eve. What's up? What's happening? Let's see: Speaking of turkeys, we've had the Elections and of course the brand spanking shining new Homeland Security Department. Kissinger is back too! I'm glad I love hockey, cuz hell is freezin' over!

War is big business, oil is an even bigger business and so is touting 'we'll get 'em' rhetoric. So, let's let Georgie play 'Cowboy', letting his spurs 'jingle jangle' while the 'bad guys-with black hats and long handlebar mustaches', tie America to the tracks. Wake up Georgie...Osama and the Al Qaida's are still around, the economy sucks, and we've come full circle back to Bush vs. Iraq II, the sequel? I don't get it, but I kinda do...

We will go to war no matter what happens with all the inspections.

Bush needs a war bad, he's frothing at the mouth. Let's do some simple math: Bush (Texas Oil man) + Iraq <oil rich country> + (maybe) economic boost + supply of fossil fuels for the hungry new world government. Now, you may think, "Your reaching here man, You've gone nuts". Have I? Homework assignment: How many other countries have nuclear or biological weapons, either ready to go, or in development? China for one, North Korea for twosies, one of the original 'Axis' of Evil', but are we trying to disarm them?

So what of Henry? Henry Kissinger, bald face obfuscator and falsifier. He and 'Tricky Dick' Nixon were very much involved with the 'super, massive and not so secret bombing' of Laos and Cambodia in '73. Three quarters of a million peasants and looker-ons were killed and it left Cambodian society in tatters. Welcome Pol Pot and his Khmer Roughe party, thank you for killing another 1 1/2 million more people. The infamous 'killing field'. Genocide and War Crimes. Bangladesh, Chile, East Timor <East side!!!!>, Vietnam. Oh the list goes on and on....

Why do we want a liar on a truth finding group?

I will say that George Bush Jr. does a great George Creel!

Anyway, I wish everyone well, take good care and don't worry about the 'Big Brother' thing....yet.

peace and light

10/04/02

The Pledge of Resistance

We believe that as people living
in the United States it is our
responsibility to resist the injustices
done by our government,
in our names

Not in our name
will you wage endless war,
there can be no more deaths
no more transfusions
of blood for oil

Not in our name
will you invade countries
bomb civilians, kill more children
letting history take its course
over the graves of the nameless

Not in our name
will you erode the very freedoms
you have claimed to fight for
Not by our hands
will we supply weapons and funding
for the annihilation of families
on foreign soil

Not by our mouths
will we let fear silence us

Not by our hearts
will we allow whole peoples
or countries to be deemed evil

Not by our will
and Not in our name

We pledge resistance

We pledge alliance with those
who have come under attack
for voicing opposition to the war
or for their religion or ethnicity

We pledge to make common cause
with the people of the world
to bring about justice,
freedom and peace

Another world is possible
and we pledge to make it real.

Hey hey hey, what's up? Down? Just getting ready to start the weekend, I'm getting ready to start it with a contribution to a great cause-the cause and effect (affect) of "Not In Our Name: A Statement of Conscience"". PLEASE read it HERE and send it to everyone you can: friends, family, college papers, local news agencies, tv stations, print it up and pass it out, ect and make a contribution to the cause. October 6 and 7th is the groups "Pledge to Resist" campaign. This group consist of artists, musicians, painters, writers, authors, actors, directors, activists, comedians and everyday common folk (like me-how about you?) who are not afraid to voice their opinion on Bush's Push, for War or any of his supposed fight against terrorism "for freedom's sake" bills which will threaten a truly free society. Big Brother is not just a tv show ladies and gents, it's as real as rain. Do you really want a big bad government regulating your right to free speech or your right to just be free. The Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights were not written on an etch o' sketch! Ratifications and bills pass very quickly when you're not reading the newspapers, when you're not reading the total bill that is being passed. They become law, they steal a little bit more from you and I . I'm not buying the "Aren't you willing to give up some of your Constitutional Rights to be safer?" ploy. The "it's a necessity, that we take away freedoms for the common good". If it smells like bullshit, it usually is bullshit. Don't bend over and pick up the 'proverbial' soap.

Make no mistake, I am a Patriot, a very proud American but I will not support a war brought by a man that stole the Presidency, that shares his father's ideas of War for Big Business, his closed minded opinion that if you do not support a war, then you are not "patriotic" stance. Who in the hell gave the pyromaniac the Zippo? I am in no way shape or form a 'Lemming' ready to walk off a cliff. Are you? This is a country 'by the people, for the people...' not 'government of corporations by corporations for corporations...' to paraphrase Rutherford B. Hayes.

Seems like we have mind's like a sieve. We forget "Sponsored by" US, arming of guerillas for political gain and overthrowing of other countries governments. Bombing of hospitals, both foreign and domestic (Oklahoma, Waco, ring a bell?). The Bush administration speaks of protecting us all from terrorism yet is only to well versed in terrorizing it's citizens with this very campaign. Reminding us that Nuclear attacks, homeland bombings, hijacking, shoe bombs, belt bombs, dirty bombs, anthrax in the mail, computer virus', biological agents, small pox, arsenic in the water supplies, and on and on an on, can happen at anytime! But...just go on with your lives. Much like Hollywood, Washington always needs a new enemy. Can you say, DC Shooter? Disgruntled americans? What new domestic disturbance or 'rogue element', will be political fodder in the the next well thought out plot twist, scripted to support our need to defend against and defeat: terrorism?

Terrorism sounds a bit broad, doesn't it? Well, the definition needs to be, doesn't it? Just a word with a ton of leeway that allows 'Big Brother' to look into your houses, cars, computers, bank accounts and ground you like a stern mommy that will no longer allow you to read "That filth", watch programing that is not sponsored by "good lordy values" or listen to "that naughty satanic music".

Government shouldn't mean: babied, watched over, inspected, spied on, legislated, regimented, despised, vexed, pursued, spied upon, repressed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, evaluated, censored, commanded, kept an eye on, taxed, admonished, prevented, reformed, corrected, hustled, beaten up, falsely imprisoned, searched, mocked, betrayed, ridiculed, exploited, compartmentalized, pressured, robbed-by eminent domain or being lied to, or should I say politically promised to?

So let's hear it from some other free-thinkers:

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"Why of course the people don't want war ... But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ..Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."
-Hermann Goering   sourcee:: The Nuremberg Trials

To criticize one's country is to do it a service and pay it a compliment. It is a service because it may spur the country to do better than it is doing; it is a compliment because it evidences a belief that a country can do better than it is doing. In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste but its effect, not how it makes people feel in the moment but how it makes them feel in the long run. Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism, a higher form of patriotism, I believe, than the familiar rituals of national adulation.
-J. William Fulbright <t;

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
-Thomas Edison

The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. Freedom is something you're born with, and then one day someone tries to deny it. The extent to which you resist is the extent to which you are free.
- U. Utah Phillips

The beauty of the democratic systems of thought control, as contrasted with their clumsy totalitarian counterparts, is that they operate by subtly establishing on a voluntary basis--aided by the force of nationalism and media control by substantial interests--presuppositions that set the limits of debate, rather than by imposing beliefs with a bludgeon. Then let the debate rage; the more lively and vigorous it is, the better the propaganda system is served, since the presuppositions (U.S. benevolence, lack of rational imperial goals, defensive posture, etc.) are more firmly established. Those who do not accept the fundamental principles of state propaganda are simply excluded from the debate (or if noticed, dismissed as "emotional," "irresponsible," etc.).
-Noam Chomsky

Support freedom, true freedom!

peace and light

09/18/02
Hey Hey Hey! Just a quick hello. What's up out there? Here? I just keep playing the guitar, running and just loving music. What can I say? It's hard to explain truly 'loving' music. It just takes over my mind, heart and spirit. You know what else charges those creative impulses? Listening to great musicians. I'm getting ready to see Sheryl Crow and Michelle Branch this sunday. I will also be seeing a classical monster named Elliot Fisk. This guy is beyond a doubt, one of the scariest guitar players in the universe. I have a cd of his, playing Paganini's 24 Caprices! Now...it's otherworldly. Hey, Lenny Kravitz, ya care to do those covers??? I thought not!

Also, I've been loving the new live album from my Queen-Ani DiFranco. I've traveled far and wide to witness this incredible guitarist, poet, musician, bandleader, composer, jokester, ect ect, live for years now and it's great to hear another live album from her. (Yes, she's prolific enough to have two live double albums). What can I say about Ani? If you know me, you know I'm very rarely at a loss for words...haha...but Ani always leaves me tongue tied. I heard somewhere that 'Metallick-everyone' were considered the ultimate road dogs....Ani's toured upwards of 200 shows a year for going on 12 years! Move it on over, new dog coming in, what am I saying, Ani's always been the ultimate road dog. "So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter" is another of her two cd packages, it has some absolutely wonderful music from her touring band of the last couple of years. You have to hear 'Self Evident', it's a tone poem about not only the World Trade Center bombing, but also hits you with doses of politics touching on W. Bush's stealing of the presidency, our nations dependence on fossil fuels, retribution, Oklahoma bombing...what a fearless artist.

In this day and age, so many grown ups and kids alike equate, loud, distorted and low detuned guitar and it's dreary lyrics with heaviness. It's sad that "substance" isn't apart of the equation. Ani is all about substance. But she's infinitely more powerful with just her acoustic guitar and her voice as MegatallicaDeath is with their whole stage show, fireworks, explosions (ask Hetfield about those) and walls of amplifiers!!! That's a fact. Any big stadium Metal act will wither and lose it's mighty stage balls if they go straight and play unplugged. They all become sickly, pathetic and anemic bobblehead dolls at their finest. Ani's the Greatest, kicks holy ass, sings like an angel yet rocks like a punk! She wears the thickest press-on nails that they make, 'action strength, as it were', and she still needs to wrap them with electrical tape so they won't break off! Has a swing on her that makes Townsend look like a little leaguer! haha Thank you Ani, for the 15 plus albums you've released, the live one that just came out and the studio one to come out soon!

peace and light

09/02/02
Wow, got this update sent within a month! Now that's a turn for the better. What's up in the NM region? Went out to the Diablos last game yesterday, with my older brother Fern and his sons, my nephews <duh> Bubba and Myles. Great time at the old ballpark. It's only been in the last couple of years that I have started to watch baseball again. I, for whatever reason, very much started to dislike baseball. But, Fern being a baseball fanatic has rubbed off and now I catch as many games as I possibly can. My team back in the day was the Dodgers, with Garvey, Cey, Lopes ect. Now I'm a Yankee fan! (Cheer or Boo here...) I had left baseball behind once I saw Michael Jordan play. I became an expert on the triangle defense, I could virtually read Mike or Pipp's mind and KNOW when they were going to steal, clamp down on or just put away opponents! I would yell for someone to rotate just as Michael would be doing the same thing. If I tuned in late for a game...I could tell, before the score would come on the screen, just by looking at the layout, what quarter it was, how many minutes had been played and whether they were up or not! Really I could. I also knew that at anytime, anytime at all, if Phil Jackson needed me to fill in on the coaching staff, I could have done it. Now that's a sports fan huh? Tex Winter is a genius. Ya gotta read 'Sacred Hoops' by Phil Jackson, it's a great read. But once Michael Jordan retired, I had to find another sport...so I chose Hockey!! Yeah, the Colorado Avalanche Rule. A desert rat? Hockey? Well, I got to see, meet and somewhat hang out with the worst team in the NHL when I was in NY-the Binghampton Whalers! I eventually made my way back to baseball, it's a great sport.

Okay, I'm still playing guitar like a fanatic. I'm still very much inspired from seeing Joe Satriani, which is always a good thing. When you love guitar playing as much as I do, you sometimes lose focus on where you sit in the Musical Circle. I will be putting some licks on the site, I just happen to suffer from the J.D. Salinger School of Promotion. :)

I've got some neato sites to add to the links page. First off we have the 'Html-metronome'. This site has an internet metronome and you can use it off their site or download it onto your computer. It's pretty cool and comes in handy for those of us that really like using such things to improve our chops and time.

Oh and for a laugh and a half, check out "The Fart Farm", it's a site I stumbled upon whilst looking for .wav files for my computer. These are actual farts sent in by readers! How cool is that? I was laughing so hard that the screen on my laptop was shaking. Now I'm of the mind that Farts are extremely funny. If you don't dig the fart scenes in "Dumb and Dumber", "Van Wilder", "Blazing Saddles", "American Pie", "Head Over Heals", "Deuce Bigalow", ect ect ect, than maybe this isn't your cup o' tea. Anyway, we'll talk to you all soon I hope.

peace and light

08/13/02
My My My, it's been another long spell since I've posted any new info. Just been working and I had changed my internet browser to Explorer. I erased Netscape and lost my web design software. So there you go, now....

I'm getting ready to go to the Joe Satriani concert in Albuquerque with my buddy Eric . It'll be a great show, hope to meet the guy again. I'm currently watching Maury Povich, and they're having another of their, "Paternity Revealed" shows. I really don't watch tv, per se, but I usually have it on when I'm at home and playing guitar. It's just a cool way of distracting my conscious, a Zen deal. Well, I very much love the stupidity of some of this great nations idiots. This day being a great opportunity to witness these boneheads. Once again, a female idiot goes all out, legs apart, into a sexual liaison with some complete loser! Ah, how romantic. She gets knocked up and she then has to run that mental list (Epic to be more exact) of all the guys she's been penetrated by. She, as well as, these other dump stations then bring their pathetic story on tv, they have to admit to this mind fart and also confront the knucklehead that will swear up and down that he doesn't know what she's talking about.

The magic and suspense filled moment is the reading of the paternity test. Okay, if the guy is the irresponsible dolt, then hopefully he'll get slapped with child support and the usual legal mumbo jumbo that he deserves, justice done, right? The guy is one of the usual suspects: Rapper-Hip Hop wanna be, or he's the 'lucky he graduated third grade' trailer sailor who has a mullet and the screwed up facial hair that never quite grows in. The messed up part is when the 'little princess for a night' gets all up in arms, blames one idiot, swears on her mother that he in fact, is the only one she's ever been with!   Test says....He's not the father. Little good girl, never been with anyone else, turns out is quite adept in being the town slut! Yet, the sperm donor, come on, he sure as hell isn't a man, jumps up and down, acting even more like an idiot, and off he goes, with national tv exposure and endorsement that he is in fact a immature jerk. Now the young, ehmmm, lady, has to once again, rack her brain, not against a headboard-yet, but to 'think', about just which one of the lower metro area she's been with is indeed the father. What a pathetic display of humanity.

Now, like I said I love seeing people doing incredibly stupid things. I love those skateboard and bmx weiners that bite it on a railing, stumble into traffic and get run over by a garbage truck! Now that's great but these shows also run on...ta da..."Stupidity"! How do I know this? Well, if that retarded "kick flip to yogi, with a banana split fakey-or whatever lame ass, look I'm the jerk that shoved a board up my butt on the coping and I get to name it something stupid", trick just happens to succeed, who cares. It gets on tv because he bit it and his colon shot out of his mouth when he hit the pavement! Name that move sucker!

Then of course, there is "Cops". Oh yeah, now that's a show about nincompoops! So here we have a show that not only focuses on how stupid these people are when they're home, we get to enjoy them getting pulled over, getting in trouble, being stupid, when you know damn well, they were stupid wherever they had just driven from! Get it? Stupid is as stupid does, the box in your living room is just filled with this great stuff! They call them bloopers...I call them Gold. Thank all you stupid 'daredevils' and 'daters' out there who suffer extreme humiliation and broken bones to entertain us all.

Well, the above is another of my little Rants. If you know me you know I can take off on a dime on most subjects. I might even be able to, in the great tradition of the Fat Albert cartoons, make you laugh and hopefully help you learn something before I'm done. I'm thinking about starting a "Rant" section. So that I may be able to exorcise these demons from time to time. What do you think?

I'd also like to bring up a topic of a certain someone that thought he was 'cute' to write me a little email, and tell me that I should-<let me lower my IQ about 100 points> "Get some fans, or shut up" type of thing. I strained to get through his misspelled rambling of a note. Well, my little buttnut, you've since tasted a bit of my Verbal Judo and I haven't the pleasure of a response. Here's the deal. I'm doing this webpage as an open letter to my friends, my cyberfriends and to strangers that happen by. It's a personal space that's open to anyone. For future professional reasons it will become more of a 'business card', but also a meeting place for people that want to know a bit about me. That's it... I've had the pleasure of MANY people that had a laugh or two, friends that read some things that they didn't even know. It's like a room that I let people step into and look around. That's all that websites are: places. You go and visit whatever group you like, and you look at their content or you don't, simple as that. Speaking of lack of content-What Mr. Minus doesn't understand can fill the Grand Canyon, but I'm glad he stopped by too. Didn't I see you on Springer? No, really, JM I thought that was you, the topic was "Transvestites: Should I tell my girlfriend or just wear her panties?" I knew it!!! Dude, you rocked!

Well, here are a few sights I've added to the links page. We got 'Phat Glass', they're the people responsible for piercing my nipples! haha Thanks to everyone over there. Kenny for my right nipple and Jason for my left. It's a great place, the people are very cool and to Tick, I'm very much in love with you! :) I'm also including 'Body Jewelry' and 'Amber Moon' for all your hoops, barbells, ect. 'Body Jewelry' is a way cool company that I bought some barbells from. 'Amber Moon' is a company that offers this body pierce stuff at wholesale prices. I'll let you know about the quality and service.

I've put up a link to 'Noise", this is a site that I contributed to way back in the day. It's a cool sight that explores noises that are made on the guitar, without effects. I'm under the 'Moggio's Bag of Tricks'. I used to use the 'Moggio' handle (an incredibly hard Frank Zappa song) for everything. It used to be my email address on Bigfoot. So don't write there, just come back here and write me. I've emailed Mark to change the address, but for now, write me here.

Also a link to the artwork of David Merriem. Great artist, I downloaded and viewed all his work. What a great talent. What else? Oh yeah, 'Rank People' has closed down, now replaced with 'Hot or Not'. The same concept and content. Vote away. Hmm, Oh, yeah, not for everyone but there's also 'T-Shirt Hell'. There are some wonderfully terrible shirts for sale there. I'm going to be sporting alot of these. Check them out, if you dare.

peace and light

05/02/02
Hello Web-dwellars. Not much in the way of updates other than a couple of funny additions to the 'Hot Links' page. These are actually kind of old, but they are good for a laugh.

First up, I'm a guitarist, I've worked very hard to do some of the weird things I do on the instrument, but yet I could have saved so much time if only I would have gone through R. Bud Philson's "Learn to Play Air Guitar". I could also have saved thousands of dollars on equipment because it also comes with a FREE Philson Stratoblaster Air Guitar. I feel like quite the ninny. Knock yourself out there kiddies!

Secondly we have 'NitPickers'. Now this site is another in the long line of sites that could very well keep you glued to the screen and giggling unmercifully at all the screw ups and arguments between it's members. So if you have a favorite movie or are just watching one and notice something that is a bit off or just done wrong, this site will allow you to post it for the whole world to see. Ever see a microphone come into a scene? Everyone's seen a movie with a character that gets thrown off a building only to have the shot cut to a 'dummy' with it's legs all akimbo, just flailing all the way down! It's a blast of a site, especially if you are a movie lover or happen to see one of these weird little mistakes. Check out early Jackie Chan movies...they are based in New York City but when you look at the background...hey those are the mighty mountains of Vancouver Canada! NY is an expensive place to film in....haha

Well, that's it for this teeny tiny installment of 'What's New...'

peace and light

04/08/02
Well well well. What's been up? Delays, topped with reschedules with a side order of forgetfulness is what's been currently on the menu. Hey, I have to say that I have been sick. Oh yeah, sick sick sick. I contracted a very unhealthy (actually very healthy) dose of adult chicken pox! Man, throw in a kidney infection and you have a real wicked combo platter of viral invaders. But, yes, I made it...well, let's hope. Don't want to count my chicken pox scabs to soon!

Okay, I'm updating the 'Hot Links' page to include a couple of sites that left me absolutely laughing with joy that can only come from the bottom basement floor of the ol' belly.

First there is 'Groupie Central'. This is a site run and contributed by actual groupies. The stories and ehmmm....sizes of a myriad of rock stars are all on their little site. Who would have thought that the innocent and dreamy boy bands aren't so innocent or dreamy? One story has a girl asking Justin Timberlake if Brittney really is a virgin? The heart throb to a million airheads responds: Her mouth isn't. haha Hey, that's kinda cool! :)

Second we have the hilarious and famous "Long and Short of It". This is a page of exactly the same mirth from above, 'cept it's got all these rock guys stats and stories under their headings. Who would have 'thunk' that Mark McGrath from Sugar Ray likes to get pissed on? The "Long and Short of It" is hosted by another very funny and utterly fun and cool site called "Metal Sludge". It rocks! Try out their '20 Question', go to the "Metal Sludge-Exposed" page. The Kid Rock pictures alone have made me a fan of these sludgy people!!! Everyone has skeletons in the closet but Kid Rock and Fred Durst will have to knock down a wall and get permits for the expansion.

And lastly, is that a word? We have "What's the Worst Car of the Millennium?: The Results" . This site was just a really fun cut down on some cars we've all had some connection to.

That's it! Hope you check out these sites and laugh as hard as I did! You guys rock!

Until the next update or serious life threatening illness, bye.

peace and light

02/16/02
"Ain't it about time?" haha Yes, yes it is! What can I say, I've been busy. Let's see, what's happened since the last of the slow updates? Christmas, New Years, my birthday, met guitar genius, Eric Johnson. That was a blast! Just enjoying whatever life has to offer me. But my 'trusty sidekicks', I have returned-ready to burn!

I'd like to take a moment to thank Eric, Daniel and Manuel for the great time at the Eric Johnson show and for a fun time watching myself lose money on the SuperBowl. So thanks guys, truly an unruly trio, like the 'Three Amigos', the Musketeers, well no, more like the Stooges! Thanks

I did do a little 'net surfing' and found a couple of sites worthy of mention: The Mia Hamm Foundation is a non-profit, national organization dedicated to raising funds and awareness for bone marrow diseases and the development of more opportunities for young women to participate in sports.

And also we have "NAF/Pro-Choice.org" Now, this particular 'soapbox' is as narrow as it is large. My own feelings or experiences may differ, but one thing that doesn't is my belief in a person's right to choose. I spent a very long time on this site, much respect to the men and women that want to help and educate others.

Okay, here is a very funny and totally cool site, it's O. J. Perry Fecteau's website. I can't for the life of me remember how I came to find his page but it's one of the funniest "Guy" sites out there. It's hilarious, smart, crude and so far from 'political correctness' that I couldn't pull myself away. The man is very talented and should find a wider audience.

Well, that's about it for right now. I'm looking at a few other sites that will make the 'Hot Links' page but that will just have to wait a 'tad'.

peace and light

12/22/01
'Hey man, like dude, why has it taken so long to update this page?' Well, I've been busy with the holiday season dude! haha Why else? So what's new? Two links in the Hot links page. One is for the 'Make a Noise Foundation'. A charity founded by Steve Vai and Richard Pike. It's a charity that will raise money and awareness to the ever shrinking support of music in todays school systems. It provides musical instruments, music education, cd libraries and musical culture to young musicians who cannot afford to do these things for themselves. Much love guys.

Next is the 'With Arms Wide Open Foundation'. Founded by Scott Stapp of Creed, its goal is to protect the well being of children by seeking to ensure healthy, loving, nurturing bonds between children and their parents through funding existing service providers. Check it out and leave a little something in the donation jar...

Well, happy holidays to everyone. The 'sounds' are on their way! Just in case you were wondering aloud or in quiet, whatever. My guitar licks, sounds and riffage will be up for display very soon. haha Thanks to those of you who have 'dared' to write me.   And Yes, Julie, the 'cactus' story is true!!!

peace and light

11/12/01
The 'gear' page is up. It reeks of "These are some of my favorite things". Yes, it does. These are some of my babies. I love them very much. I just wanted to get them up and share them with everyone. Oh, how sweet I am...

Oh yes, I added a site called 'Rank People'. Now this is a very entertaining site in that people are encouraged to 'Rank' you on a 1 to 10 scale. Ever go to those county fair auctions? Yeah, it's a human meat market. Voting is anonymous, so you are encouraged to really vote how you feel about these assortment of 'mugs'. I got in the ol' psychology of it all. I kinda fell into my 'everyone's special' frame of mind, as not to hurt any feelings. But! Hey! It's anonymous, so I let the numbers fall where they fell! haha The caption on the title page says, "Can your ego handle it?" No...hell no! haha

peace and light

11/06/01
Why hello yet again everyone. I have updated the Bio section of my site and have replaced it with something much more attuned to my self inflicted 'perfectionist/control freak' tendencies...It has become an Autobiography! haha I didn't say it was any good. It's just self-penned. I originally tried the 'fluff' bio. The one that everyone uses to put themselves over as being accomplished artists. 'Raspberry noise here' I decided to go the other way.

People ask me all the time how I got any good on the guitar...well, it's not about how, it's more in the why? Why the hell did I fall ass first into that cactus patch, on Easter vacation, when I was about six, in front of tourist galore, and then having to have my parents pull down my pants in front of everybody, getting water poured on my butt so that they could yank all the thorns out? I was pushin' the boundaries man. That's why! The go where no man has gone before thing. The road less traveled thing. Why did I start playing guitar? To push the envelope as best as I could. It's a freakish quality to want to manipulate air molecules all day long. I'm a person who is not content to play the first 4 measure of a hundred different songs but play whole songs written by me. There is a difference. My self expression comes from happiness, sadness, audacity and matter of factness. There you go. I needed an outlet. I'm a playful sort, you'll get that soon enough. It's a part of every part of myself.   You people that know me, know this, you people that are here now, go there now!

Yes yes, I will soon be putting up the ol' shots of my gear. More links to come as well. Until next update...

peace and light

10/22/01
Hello again, this is the "What's New..." section and will have whatever updates are made and also any "Coming Soon" warnings/happenings/plans that are making their way onto, into or around my chunk of 'NetLand'. I added a new 'hot link' in the Karma section, it's a direct link to United Blood Services. Just a quick word here...I don't preach or intend to tell anyone how to do whatever it is you want or don't want to do, but check out some of the charities and such on the Karma section of my 'links' page. It's a great way to help people or support causes which do alot of good. Believe me, it's very easy to forget about helping people until you find yourselves in a bad situation, then you wonder why it seems like 'No one cares'. Now go on ya knuckleheads and check them out! Putting my time and money where my mouth usually is, I've put these links up because I'm a member/supporter of all of them. Life's to short to not care...

peace and light

10/18/01
I've updated the "Ani DiFranco page, as well as, the Julie Wolf Page. I will be writing more this weekend. The guitar sound files are being written (in case you were interested)

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