shawn avery

i got a few cool shirts... a weekend trip to the u.s. virgin islands ... and an ashbory bass ... pretty fantastic. silicone strings. super short scale / piezo pickup / fretless / it is from the future...

today is my birthday. i'm 34 . 5 years ago, i had a small party at my then girlfriend's apt, which included my mom and some close friends. after the party, we went to workplay to see that other guy from uncle tupelo. he sucks. 10 years ago, i had to go to traffic court on my birthday, and i got railroaded by a cop who totally lied about me making a turn. my dad had died a week earlier, and i had a party at downtown disney/orlando with my room mate, mom and my gf at the time. i dressed really strange back then. 15 years ago, i turned 19. i was living in my stepfather's apartment that was annexed to the rock club he owned. i was working at the mall. life was good. i had a great party at home with all of my guy and girlfriends. my hair was super long. good times. 20 years ago, i got my first new, chrome, rock drum kit. my first band rehearsed in my bedroom on my birthday... lot of teens and adults did some heavy drinking. all of my best friends were there. i had a mullet. i...

friday night. dj set at speakeasy. all rock set. good crowd. had some nice responses to the local rock tracks i played. had a few technical glitches, but my troubleshooting saved the evening. saturday, alison and i went to atlanta and i played with the spots at a coffee shop called community grounds... it was their opening night. we basically played in a back room covered with soft chars and curtains. we played much better than we did at workplay. i think we found the entire performance completely effortless. it was hot as heck in there, so i wore a t-shirt. classy. also... also, i think i got the ebola throat virus from all the smoke at speakeasy. here's some pics from alison's cell - the dj set in birmingham, followed by the spots gig in atlanta: ...and there's also an inside joke that you won't get.

im playing a rock oriented dj set at speakeasy this friday night. the idea is to make speakeasy an after party venue for artwalk 2008. i'll start a little before 10 and end the set sometime after midnight. 1/3 Octave Frequency Charts ** Audio Octave Ranges Frequency Range When Used Produces This Effect When Used Too Much Produces This Effect 16Hz to 60 Hz Sense of power, felt more than heard makes music muddy 60Hz to 250Hz Fundamentals of rhythm section, EQing can change musical balance making it fat or thin makes music boomy 250Hz to 2KHz Low order harmonics of most musical instruments telephone quality to music 500 to 1KHz horn-like, 1K to 2KHz tinny, listening fatigue 2KHz to 4KHz Speech Recognition 3KHz listening fatigue, lisping quality, "m:, "v",...

the police played their final show at MSG in NYC a few weeks ago. they played somewhere around 150 show, to over 3 million people and earned at least 300 million dollars. nice work if you can get it. i sat the reunion out. i've seen sting before. twice in '94, once in '96. and i've seen stewart.. in '94... and hung out with vinx for a while. if they had reformed 10 years ago, i'd be there. they played fantastic, but i like my favorite bands as they were, and i don't need to have them come back to entertain me... or charge me $200 for the honor of seeing them play. having said that... here's some fantastic clips from the golden days of the blonde trio. this clip is epic. campy, satirical... playing crappy instruments and faking the song, while actually singing... one of the most impressiv esingles of the past 30 years... intelligent, political and painfully catchy. and god... what a look. anyway... here's one to blow minds . stings first successfu...

The Case Against Obama - In His Own Words - by Lorie Byrd | townhall.com It would be hard to make a better case against a Barack Obama presidency than the one Obama has made in his own words. The most memorable thing about Obama’s speeches is not generally what he says, but rather how large and enthusiastic the audiences are. If voters pay attention only to the symbolism and get caught up in the excitement of the Obamessiah and his throngs of fainting disciples, he stands a good chance of winning in November. If voters pay attention instead to the things Obama is saying, the case against an Obama presidency will be clear. Obama’s youthful appearance is often cited as one of his biggest assets, but when he opens his mouth he doesn’t always come off as presidential or even particularly intelligent. The political figure who perhaps has received the most ridicule in the past twenty years is Dan Quayle (due largely to a misspelled word on a flashcard he read during an appearance at a ...