I come to you today after flying back from a fantastic vacation in San Diego. I went there to attend the San Diego Ukulele Festival, of which I will have more to write about later. Tonight, set to the music of Julia Nunes on a CD I picked up from the artist herself, I bring […]
As I’m sure is the same with many of my working class friends, we budget our expenses based upon a paycheck that comes every two weeks. The financial month is 28 days. The actual month is 31 days. Consequently, every so often, we get a “three paycheck month”… this is one of those for me. […]
I’ve covered more songs on uke than I can remember. What inspires me to cover each song can have as much to do with the merits of the song as it does with any of many other random factors. The time of year. What other people are talking about. Or, is in today’s case, something […]
Every year for the past however many it has been, I record Christmas carols and post them on You Tube. The video below is my first of this season of 2011. Some notes: 1. I did not mean to imply in the editing of this video that Bliss the Cat is Baby Jesus. 2. Ta […]
At about 3 PM, I got a voicemail I’ve been waiting a week for. It was from Val, the store manager at Guitarville. My new ukulele had arrived and I could come pick it up. Unfortunately, the store is only open until 6 PM (note to Guitarville: you’re a retail store, not a bank. You […]
Over the weekend, I got the bad news. The pre-amp on my tenor ukulele was not fixable. I think I was somewhat at fault, as it hasn’t worked since I replaced the connector for the 9V battery. I explained this to the nice guys as GuitarVille shop when I brought it in, and I was […]
I am saddened that my ukulele repair skills did not prove to be all I thought they were. A month or two ago, with the help of a friend who owned a soldering iron, I was very proud that I fixed the battery connection on my uke. See, it has a battery-powered electronic pick up […]
So what did you do with your two hours of no Friendburst? Me, I worked on a cover of one of my favorite songs. It’s a cover of a cover, as a guy named Mat Weddle made a somewhat-famous YouTube cover of Outkast’s Hey Ya! Of course, he used one of those big, 6-stinged bass […]
I’ve never truly understood bicycle shorts. I suspected that those who wore them probably did so for some semi-erotic reasons under the pretense of what?… better aerodynamics & freedom of movement? Why else would any self-respecting dude wear what amounts to spandex in public? I finally understand the function of bicycle shorts. They’re to keep […]
