The Bass Geek

Radio Radio has Spinto Band, Tally Hall and De Novo Dahl this very evening. Also, Earl Greyhound is coming Wendesday, June 4th - not this weekend, but definitely exciting enough to mention.

Sam’s Saloon features Mellow Down Easy tonight, Whitey Morgan and the 78’s along with Javelinas and The Pine Box Boys Saturday, and Goes Cube, The Last Domino and The Post Script Sunday.

Deano’s Vino has John Harden Pope tonight and Wilson and Company Saturday night.

This is the last weekend for Victor/Victoria at the American Cabaret Theater this Friday and Saturday night, along with a Sunday matinee - if you show up to that one, you can help me erase my notes in te score and pack up my amp. Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Part of the wonderful challenge of putting together a tech book is that the playing field is always changing - programs update, new versions come out, etcetera.  It can be a bit difficult to manage.

Now multiply that by the five versions of Vista I have to account for my current project, and all the fun should become clear.  I’m writing using Vista Ultimate, which includes the whole shebang, and I’m trying to take into consideration all the features and such people might not see.  Joy.

Also, the new IMN podcast is up.  Download it here or listen at the site.

So I’m picking up some CDs at a local record store (special order placed on Memorial Day took two days to arrive - these guys are geniuses) when I notice it.  Less than a few days after FezFest ‘08 (pictures of which can be found here, courtesy of Nuvo and Krissy Bertram), I run across “Sitar Beat! - Indian Style Heavy Funk, Vol. 1.”

From 2006.

Truly, there is nothing new underneath the sun.  Serge Gainsbourg even makes a few appearances.  But as far as I can tell, no fezzes.

So that’s what I’m digging on right now.  That and new stuff from Esperanza Spaulding, Santogold, King’s X, and The Blacksoil Project.  And the sitar stuff?  Yeah, it’s the heavy funk.  So there you go.

My fair district gets a decent write-up in the Post, so I truly expect the massive throngs of vacationing D.C.-ers and suburban Virginians (Virginianites?) to make their way here.

No, really. I do. The Fountainview Inn is over there, and I’ll help with the bags.

‘Cause I love the bulleted lists:

• Fezfest ‘08 was phenomenal, and I loved being able to play to venues within the space of an hour.
• I missed having the computer with me for the Playboy Psychonauts show, but I thought I covered ably with the other effects I used.
• I’m a wiz at hanging light fixtures.
• At the same time, I’m the world’s worst house painter.
• I get unreasonably excited about “Law and Order” marathons on TNT.
• It’s more difficult than I suspected to find the works of King’s X, Dio, and Esperanza Spaulding.
• New Metalocalypse?  Awesome.