Year: 2008

This pirate is cool!

Since I am setting up the new photo galleries as well as reinstalling my old gallery from the old daveryder.com, I’ve been looking through a LOT of photos. And because I haven’t really said much about the biggest joy in my life – my son Muggy), I thought I would post a scary pirate photo. This pirate is cool!

WordPress Sociable Plugin

I added Joost de Valk’s Sociable Plugin today. It is MOST excellent. I just thought I’d share that with you. Ok I’m sorry that was a really weak pun. Cartman would just kick me in the nuts…but seriously, it works ,was easy to install and looks nice. He shoots he SCORES!

Kent Hall – your song fucking rox

Kent Hall is our “professor on the drumkit”. Kind of a Jekyll and Hyde – he’ll go from “soft and beautiful” to “now let me rip your head off” on the songs, and make it look easy. I always think about Carlos Santana talking about Michael Shrieve during an interview where he says something like, Kent Hall – your song fucking rox

Colesauruszilla Rex

BTW, we are doing an album of low-brow comedy named “uh that shit is not funny”, and the album features our highlarious bad mofo Don Cole on the cover, here it is it cracks me up:

Tascam 38

Here’s a graphic representation of my original Tascam 38 I made with Paint Shop Pro, click it to see the full size wallpaper: (BTW, I still have that tape recorder, but it hasn’t worked for over 12 years – I recorded so much with it, the tape heads wore down to the point that you Tascam 38

Roger, Wilco

I’ve been listening a lot to Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot lately. It’s a great CD, but not SO great as to account for all the critical raves. So part of the listening has to do with trying to figure out WHY it was so well received, and why I like it so much. And I Roger, Wilco