Buddy's 30th, My Slacking

Did the ghetto bowling for a buddy's 30th b-day tonight, good times. Talked to BACM, good to hear he's tracking on. Get in town soon.

If the new JOB wasn't rocking and rolling I'd give some of you a little bit more. Sorry about that.

Would love to see Stone Temple Pilots Sunday but no tickets, egads.

Will try to post more.

J

FW Weekly Music Awards, T.O. Owens, Expensive Benchwarmers & Studio Desk

The Fort Worth Weekly holds their annual music awards show(s) this Sunday from many downtown bars. Here's the schedule with my picks in bold.

8.0
9pm -- Pretty Baby
8pm -- Calhoun
7pm -- Collin Herring
6pm -- Pablo/the Hemphill 7
5pm -- The Campaign
4pm -- Stephen Pointer

BENT LOUNGE
9pm -- Stella Rose
8pm -- The Great Tyrant
7pm -- Titanmoon
6pm -- Stumptone
5pm -- Telegraph Canyon
4pm -- Jefferson Colby

FLYING SAUCER
9pm -- April Geesbreght
8pm -- Elizabeth Wills
7pm -- The Burning Hotels
6pm -- Black Tie Dynasty (acoustic)
5pm -- PrinceRodriguez
4pm -- Blackland River Devils

PADDY RED’S
9pm -- KatsuK
8pm -- Goodwin
7pm -- TTXQ
6pm -- Merkin
5pm -- Lifters
4pm -- the cut*off

SCAT JAZZ LOUNGE
9pm -- Whiskey Folk Ramblers
8pm -- Josh Weathers Band
7pm – Rivercrest Yacht Club
6pm -- Maren Morris
5pm -- Panther City Bandits
4pm -- JZ & Dirty Pool


Apparently T.O. Owens has missed another day of Cowboys mandatory training camp for 'personal reasons'. Hopefully nothing too serious. Here.

Ran across this Forbes article listing the highest paid benchwarmers by sport. Our own Frank Cat of the Rangers made the list though he's a pretty decent utility outfielder. Overpaid? Maybe so.

Here's a picture of the main desk in my apartment project studio. I got a LCD monitor recently and it really opens up the desk space.


Thought of the day: "If I am tardy to work again, am I re-tardy?"

I Golf For Fun

I played another round this last weekend at SugarTree just outside of Weatherford. First off I'll disclaim that I'm a pretty bad player; Second that I don't take much of the game that seriously, otherwise, I'd be paying to go postal. SugarTree is a pretty solid muni course for $40/round. Short but well kept. I'll definitely play there again.

I don't write much about my father on this blog (Happy Father's Day) but he is an avid, good golfer. I opened up my big mouth yesterday describing my Saturday round and he mentioned that I need to take a few lessons first. I hear ya Dad, I hear ya but I go out there to have fun. I've been competitive at most everything in my life to this point, can't I just go out there and hack it, enjoy the company and get some sun?

Back to work...

A Nice Random Entry

Mobile Phones:

Much to the anticipation of many fanboys out there, Apple unveiled the iPhone 3G yesterday and will be sold beginning July 11th. Apparently the major additions were 3G capability, GPS and a 'lower' price. What Apple failed to mention was that monthly data plans will increase by $10 every month.

I'm really not sure if I want to opt-out of my contract for one of these bad boys. My phone bill is around $90-100 a month currently and if I get an iPhone it would probably increase to $120/month or so. Any plan over $100 seems a little excessive to me. Besides, RIM is supposed to release the Blackberry Bold and Sony-E with the Xperia. Both will impress I'm sure. I guess I'll hang onto the phone I have now and see.

Music:

I haven't been to any live shows as of late but you need to check out The Rivercrest Yacht Club if you have a moment. Apparently, via Ken, Lucas White will be taking over drums for the group. If they're anywhere close to as good as their MySpace clips live, I'm so there, especially with the talented Lucas on board. Nice guy, better drummer :)

Sports:

Yesterday Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 600th homerun, virtually assuring his hall of fame induction. This is the guy that I thought years ago would shatter all the homerun records but due to various injuries, he will not. I also think Griffey is one of the most naturally gifted players I've ever seen play, unfortunately, his legacy will be cast around as one of the 'steroid era', which he probably never put in his body. Bittersweet moment indeed.

Check out a great forum here along with LoneStarBall for excellent baseball analysis.

Good Luck with your new job Jake

So Much Happening

Apologize to the poor people that read this blog. I've been an absentee parent lately because I've had so much happening.

A buddy of mine and me took a trip down to Port Aransas/Padre Island/Corpus Christi this last weekend mainly to clear the head, hit the beach and play a little golf. Never has a sunburn felt better. We tried Pyrat rum for the first time, not bad. Went down pretty smooth but I think the store owner pulled a marketing gimmick on us because it was quite expensive. Cooked jerk chicken the first night, red snapper the next and finally went out the last night for some pork chops/ahi tuna. Very nice.

Another announcement in the world of DFW Sports, Music and More is that I am being promoted at work (probably not for blog posting). My new position will begin next week and I'm pretty pumped about it. I need to find more time for writing music though...been so unmotivated.

Cowboys camp anyone?