Just got some e-mail with really bad news: My standing gig at Southside 815 with the JohnDC All-Stars has been canceled. I’ve had that gig for oh, at least a year and a half now. Worse, that was my sole standing gig — and as a result, after next week, I will have no gigs on my schedule. That will be the first time this has occurred since at least 1993. I’ve gotten close a couple of times, but never have I looked at a blank slate. Looks like it’s time for me to hit the open mic circuit again and find some musicians.
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Archive for September, 2006
Football update
8-6 this week. Stomped like a grape. Told you.
New posts Randy 26 Sep 2006 No Comments
Gaaaaaack!
People really aren’t paying much attention, but my St. Louis Cardinals are in the midst of one of the greatest choke jobs in the history of baseball. They lost again tonight, blowing a three-run lead in the 7th inning, and now they’ve lost seven in a row at the worst possible time. Meanwhile, the Astros won again and sit an unimaginable game and a half back of the Cards.
St. Louis has won more World Series than any National League team, but the cold reality is that the Cardinals have been to only one Series in the last 20 years and lost that one horribly. At this point, I’m almost rooting for them to fade away, because I can’t imagine how badly they will be beaten in the playoffs. All those losses this year to the Cubs in Chicago are really hanging over the Cards’ heads now, and it wouldn’t shock me at all to see them lose the division and finish as a .500 team.
New posts Randy 26 Sep 2006 No Comments
Redesign
My site was definitely looking rather 1997-ish, so I decided it was time for a redesign (easy to do, considering there are only three flat pages on the site and this blog, which is driven by Community Server software and is skinnable). Thanks to Open Source Web Design, the change took all of about an hour. Hope you like it. I’m up to at least a 2001-ish look now.
New posts Randy 24 Sep 2006 No Comments
Old school
In the mid-1990s, I played in a band called The Confabulators. I’ve been dubbing my old VHS tapes into my computer, and so here’s a YouTube video of the ‘Fabs playing three songs: James Harman’s “If the Shoe Fits” and Eddie Cochran’s “20-Flight Rock” at a blues festival in 1996, and good ol’ Elmore James’ “Dust My Broom” at one of our first-ever gigs at the old Emerald Isle club on Capitol Hill in 1993.
New posts Randy 23 Sep 2006 No Comments