Mute Math
Last night we joined our friends Brandon and Amanda to go see Mute Math at Slim’s in SF. We had a great time hanging. During the course of the evening Jackie noticed someone really familiar on the other side of the building. Lo and Behold, Mr. Brian Leport! It was cool to see Brian there too. The place was packed or at least it felt like it was from where we were standing. After some interesting opening acts, a really large guy passing out in front of us and some dude spilling his beer in front of us Mutemath finally hit the stage.
The ambient music started and Drummer Darren King came out energetic as usual, lookk at the crowd then duct taped his headphones to his head. If you have seen him play then you know how necessary this is. The rest of the band made their way onto the stage the over-sized light-bulb above illuminating the stage and then lead singer and keytar player Paul Meany comes flying in standing on top of his Rhodes. Back-lit appearing only as silhouettes the band breaks into their first song of the set “Typical” and the show has begun. It was a lot of fun.
As to be expected, they freakin rocked. Great show.
Amazon readying DRM-free music service
Amazon is rumored to be readying its own music store for launch next month, which will reportedly sell unprotected MP3s in hopes of cutting into the iTunes Store’s market share.
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Gil
I saw my cousin Gil off to the Marines on Sunday. It was not easy. This morning I woke up thinking about him. I was in the bathroom with him as he shaved his long “rock star” gotee just before he drove off. We laughed as it all came off. He is now 2 days into his duty. His world has completely changed. He is out of grasp and out of reach and really there is nothing anyone can do. It hit me this morning.
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Music Video of the Week
From one of my favorite bands. BTW my buddy Brandon told me they are coming to SF
MUTEMATH–”Typical”
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6 Months and counting…
It’s absolutely incredible how fast time is flying by right now. My wife is nearly 6 months and it’s all just so hard to believe. She feels great and looks great! 
She tells me that she can feel the baby move quite frequently now. I still have only felt it a handful of times and each time just blows me away.
Lately we have been meeting alot of couples who are married and or expecting too having dinner with them and just talking more. I’ve always been this guy who was always doing something staying so busy that it seemed like I never had time for this kind of thing. What a shame. But now I’m discovering how much I enjoy the community thing and how much I need the slower paced lifestyle. 2 years ago life was moving so fast from one event to the next, eating altoids for dinner and living on little sleep that I never really got enough time to hang with friends and to really develop the relationships. It’s amazing how much has changed just in such a short time.
I always thought the dream was to do what you love and make a living doing so. Now I feel like the dream is to do what you love with people you love and really live…
Netflix offers DVD Streaming
Netflix rocks but now it’s even better.
Netflix has just launched the “watch it now” service which is included in your Netflix subscription allowing subscribers to stream DVD’s at any time. How great is this? Netflix has one of the if not the largest online database of DVD’s available via the web for streaming. Too cool.
Musician takes homemade album to top of iTunes charts!!
The homemade album has proved a unexpected hit with iPod fans who had downloaded it from the iTunes website in their thousands – knocking Take That and Kaiser Chiefs from the top spots.
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