Saturday, September 30, 2006

Louie, Louie!

Sherri and I just got back from Old Sacramento. We saw Louie C. K. at the Punch Line last night, and it was about the funniest show we've ever seen. Louie tells jokes about his life, his marriage, and does a lot of self reflection and introspection which is what makes his act so funny. He tells it like it is, and he is just a regular guy, so I relate to his humor, and I think pretty much anybody my age could. Anyway, we approached him after the show and talked to him for a minute. We found out that his show on HBO, Lucky Louie, is not going to stay on the air for another season, which is ridiculous since it is the best sitcom ever made. He said, "What are you gonna do?" and seemed to be taking it in stride. I got my picture taken with him, and got his autograph, and we said thanks and goodnight. We went back to the Delta King, sat on the deck and drank some good wine, and talked about the stuff Louie talked about, like a time when he cut a guy off in traffic and got chased down by the guy who pulled up next to him at the next red light and told him to "suck a bag of dicks." He riffed on that for a while, saying stuff like, "What does that mean? How do you picture that? Is it a plastic ziplock bag with a bunch of dicks in it like chicken parts? Do I put the whole bag up to my mouth and suck the side of the bag, or do I take each one out, suck it, then toss it aside into a pile like a bunch of edamame pods? Or is it a paper bag with a bunch of dried up dicks that you buy from some Chinese guy on the street? Gimme one of those long red ones hanging up there... are they all in a paper bag, like a bunch of baguettes sticking out the top? Do I have to make them all come?" He just kept going, and the whole audience was cracking up. He went on to talk about what his sex life is like now that he and his wife have two kids, what he would do if he had 55 billion dollars like Bill Gates, and lots of other stuff. So, we were still talking about him today when we were walking around Sacramento checking out the capitol and the stupid K street mall waiting for the sushi place to open, and after we ate lunch and were about cross the crosswalk back to the parking lot to get the car and drive back to Stockton, we looked up and saw Louie crossing the street towards us! I said,"Is that Louie?Hey, we saw you last night." He said, "Yeah, I remember." We talked to him for a few minutes and Sherri asked if he'd pose with her for a picture and he said, "Sure." It was a trip! He is such a cool dude, and I really think he's about the funniest guy going these days. I signed a petition on line and wrote to HBO to try to save the Lucky Louie show from going off the air. What a great time we had!

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Substance D

Scanner Darkly is a really cool Philip K. Dick story, and I got the audiobook off demonoid! It has Paul Giamatti reading it, the guy in American Splendor and Sideways. Get it! See the movie, too!

Sunday, September 17, 2006

Torrents

I learned about torrents recently, and my friend, Todd Reynolds told me about dimeadozen.org. I just found out about demonoid.com, and I found Peter and the Wolf on there, the prog rock one with Eno as the wolf and Stephanne Grappelli as the cat. If you don't know about torrents yet, you should check these sites out. They are out of sight!

Oktobriana

I never expected that Oy Vague would become a live band, but someone named Kasha wants us to play at her party, so I am uploading some songs we might play so Pat can learn them. These are songs we played back in 2003 at the beginning of Oy Vague. Duncan suggested these since they are pretty simple, and will allow us to do our thing with a minimum of pre gig stress. If you can't unzip them or want cds instead, let me know. http://rapidshare.de/files/33504633/oktobriana.rar

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

See Emily Vague

Oy Vague played at Steve Hohn's party on my birthday. It was supposed to be a birthday party for his dog, whose name is See Emily Play. Here is a link to the rapidshare files of the gig. Get it then unzip using the freeware program, winrar. Get it from CNET Download.com!Put it on your mp3 player and space out. http://rapidshare.de/files/32926171/See_Emily_Vague.rar.html

Thursday, September 07, 2006

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

On September 19, 1982, I played Tommy Lee Huttner on the pilot of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers with the likes of McGuyver, the hairy guy from 30 Something, and Lil' River Phoenix. I played in a fiddle contest against one of the brothers. So I had only seen this once when it first showed and this was pre VCR for me and my family. I was curious about the possibility of getting a copy of this rare piece of historical footage, so I started looking on the internet. I finally found a guy in Georgia who found a complete set of the only season that someone had taped, labeled, then gave away to the Salvation Army! This guy tried to sell the whole set for $89 Buy it Now on ebay, but it didn't sell, so I emailed him asking if he'd sell me the pilot for $10. He said yes, then put it up and sent me the link. When I went to buy it, it had already sold! I emailed him telling him the story of how I was the kid playing the fiddle at the end of the episode and asking him if he'd copy it before sending it to the buyer, and he said he'd do it, and he sent it to me for free! I will try to figure out how to put it on You Tube and put it here on this blog. It is 2 of my 15 minutes of fame.

Monday, September 04, 2006

It's A Butte!!

Here is a picture I took while riding my bike around Camanche. I did some photoshop effects on it. It's a butte! Today is Sherri's birthday. We went to lunch at Sho Mi sushi restaurant with the kids and Ruth and Rob. It was great! We are all sushi hyped now. I can't believe raw fish tastes so good! We are watching Nip Tuck season three now. It is so trashy, but so good! I actually feel guilty for liking that show. Sickness! We went to Chico to visit Allan and Katherine this weekend too. It was lots of fun. We went out to Sierra Nevada Brewery for dinner, then went back to their house and played Cranium which is like charades, pictionary, scrabble, and trivial pursuit all in one game. The next day we went for a bike ride in Bidwell Park. It has been a nice Labor Day/ birthday weekend.