The Solexist

I am going to try to learn a song every day, chords and lyrics. I want to be able to play it in front of people– that’s the level of mastery I’m working towards. First one: Come on up to the house by Tom Waits. The progression is very satisfying, Tom is Tom, and the [...]

I cannot believe Dexter is a Wolf Cub. If you’re not down, that means he has moved to the second phase of Cub Scouts. Tiger Cubs are supposed to be 1st graders or 7, Wolves are supposed to be 2nd graders or 8. Dexter is 6 but of intermediate “grade”, so he got in Tigers [...]

Tony is just so amazing.   The way he makes his quick changes seem so effortless The way he used to sing when he used to be able to sing The way he calls the band His style His rhythm playing And of course, the breaks Mancrush! And by the way, how does Jerry Douglas [...]

Getting around to reducing some debt:   yeaaaah ebay!

Today has been the greatest day eveaaaaah… We received an offer on our house. A terrible offer, that leaves us in the hole, but nonetheless an offer. Complications included, but hopefully they will work themselves out.

I think a lot about things right now.  I think I’m going through a major change in my life.  You see, about once every six months to a year I go through a change where I’m’ obsessed about a different thing.  There are certain things that always burn in the background, but there is always [...]

Wow… This movie is messed up. It’s like  a cross between Jesus Christ Superstar’s 70s weirdness and the violent rape and creepiness of Deliverance, but then everyone is brutally murdered at the end. I have never seen a horror movie so scary that wasn’t supernatural in nature.  All the people in this movie are “normal,” [...]

Couldn’t get through the first 30 minutes. However, I sensed there were some dramatic plot twists that I missed because I wasn’t paying much attention, so that tends to take away something from the experience…

I was reading about Representative Laura Richardson and her famous $1300 a month car you pay for as a taxpayer. I browsed over to her website to see exactly how hard Rep. Richardson is working for us.  I naturally gravitated to the Service Academy link on her main page, as a Naval Academy graduate, to [...]

I am reading a book called Psychiatric Slavery, which is about psychiatry more than anything else, but it has an absolutely classic quote in it. In 1950, Dean Russell wrote Many present-day Americans are trying to avoid this personal responsibility that is freedom.  They are voting for men who promise to install a system of [...]