Mr. Lazy

I'm so tired this morning that typing is a physical challenge. Here are a few items of note that might interest some of you.

First, the $6 billion dollar wonder - Add it all up, and you'll find the Olympics is going to cost us 6 Billion (so far, anyway). Poorest urban …

A Little Barbarian

Sometimes, when you're doing vocals, you end up adlibbing stuff and cracking up everyone in the control room. Well, I thought I would share an example of that with everyone. Of course, this is just rough sounds with me doing a very horrible German accent on top of it. …

Not The Brightest Of Men

Am I surprised that the Pope did this? Not really.

"The Pope has lifted the excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church of four bishops appointed by a breakaway archbishop more than 20 years ago.

One of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre's appointees, Briton Richard …

Stuff

Have saved some interesting stuff to my delicious, so check it for some reading if you'd like.

Who dresses the band 'The Killers'? And who told them that fur coats ala Jim Morrison were cool? Then again, I am so out of touch with what's cool that I've no right to comment.

Too True

"I was born in a country but I live in a HOMELAND now." - Gore Vidal.

That's Rock & Roll

NEW! From the makers of Groupie Hero.

Obama Orders The Closure Of Guantanamo

Well, it looks as though the detention facility at Guantanamo's days are numbered. So too, according to the Obama Administration, is the use of 'harsh interrogation practices', though that is something we will never know given that many detainees that endured such …

Lightning Reflexes And A Steady Hand

Ride The Lightning

Inauguration Day Open Thread

Going to go on another posting hiatus. Too much work to do, a little under the weather, feel like I'm in a bit of a vice. As always, feel free to use the comments to discuss whatever you'd like, especially today's historic inauguration. Be back soon.

Pulling Bodies From Rubble

With the ceasefire now being observed by both sides, the full measure of the devastation of the conflict is coming into focus. According to the United Nations, half a million people have been without water since the air assault began. An estimated 4,000 homes have been …

Hamas 'Fires' Back

If political one-upmanship leads to a cessation in hostilities, I'm all for it. Israel, having announced a unilateral ceasefire, has no doubt been waiting for Hamas to respond with further rocket attacks due to the fact that despite the ceasefire, Israeli forces remain …

Recording Update

I'm tired, probably more so than I have ever been after two weeks of tracking. Things are progressing nicely, and I truly believe that this record may very well take a lot of fans by surprise in some ways. We've definitely run into some difficulties though, such as …

The Ceasefire Play

The Israelis are on the cusp of announcing a unilateral ceasefire in Gaza. From the standpoint of humanitarian assistance reaching beleaguered Gazans it very well might be a positive, but the reality of the terms of the ceasefire are another matter altogether.

Under the …

Love And Rockets

Do you really think the Israelis care? For all intents and purposes they have gotten away with an invasion that, compared to the recent Georgian conflict, has received little to no serious international condemnation. In fact, the United States has remained a staunch …

Birds Linked To al-Qaeda Attack Plane

Yesterday, in the skies over New York, birds believed to be linked to al-Qaeda attacked US Airways flight 1549. Thankfully, due to the actions of veteran pilot Chesley Sullenberger III, the plane completed a textbook emergency water landing in the Hudson River, after …

Nothing

Work has been consuming me so I haven't the time to update. Please use this as an open thread until regular posts begin again. Best.

Updated: January 14, 1:23 PM PST.

Over 1000 dead, almost one third of them children. 5,000 injured, roughly 1,600 of them children.

The …

A Meteor To Kiss The World

After finishing all the bass tracks for the record last night I decided to drive home for my day off. Sleeping in a proper bed was a relief, to say the least. A little laundry, a lot of not moving, you get the picture. Tomorrow I'll head back into town to start on …

Day 6

It's entirely ironic that I am recording a record about the city in which I have lived for my entire adult life having left it last month. I have lived a transient this week, sleeping on a couch in an empty apartment, wandering unconscious across the street to the …

Day 4

The United Nations is suspending aid operations in Gaza after one UN worker was killed, and two others wounded, when a UN forklift truck was targeted by Israeli tank fire.

"Our installations have been hit, our workers have been killed in spite of the fact that the …