You might remember a while back that the good people at the Caroline Collective were putting on those Bandcamp things; it’s been a few months since they’ve done any of ’em, I think, but this coming Sunday, January 31st, they’re putting on something they’re calling Bandcampus: BOOKING PARTY. The idea is to help out bands […]
Absolutely non-music-related, but still, this is amazingly cool. At one not-too-distant point in my life, I went on a seriously heavy travelogue-reading jag, devouring books by smart, quirky people going places nobody in their right mind (or, at least, nobody I actually know) ever goes to. Not all of it was great, I’ll freely admit […]
Decidedly non-music-related, but this guy’s my dad’s personal hero, right up there with John Wayne. Travel guru, TV star, author, & all-round strange guy Rick Steves will be speaking this coming Friday, November 14th, at the University of Houston Cullen Performance Hall. I’m not entirely sure what the heck he’ll be talking about, but he’s […]
Okay, not literally, but that’s kind of the idea. Y’see, yours truly will be hopping on a jetplane at the end of this month to fly to beauteously hot Tucson, Arizona (which is a lot neater, somehow, than it was when I was a child & was forced to spend my summers there). There I’ll […]
Ah, yes — home sweaty home. Been back a week or so, actually, but I’ve been feeling a bit weird about the Internet thing and music in general (more on that in a sec); sorry it’s taken me so long to finally crawl back online. It’s strange to be back in H-town, I have to […]
