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Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, I can now die happy. Last night I shook Harry Shearer’s hand, and listened to him sing one of the funniest songs of political satire I have ever heard in my life. It’s called “Addicted to Oil” and is done in the voice (and, happily, with the mannerisms) of our very own Commander In Chief, George W. Bush.

Yep, that Harry Shearer.

Harry was at Mississippi Studios last night, supporting his lovely, talented and also very funny wife, whose name is Judith Owen.

I was there because (more…)

Hopelessly self-absorbed I guess! Here are a couple more, since I uploaded them to my server, I suppose I have to post them to the blog, right?

Now, Paige wouldn’t have known this, because she hardly knows me, but this is just the kind of photo I would take (more…)

Silence from the pixel pen of ThirdRail Productions for a while now…I’ve actually been concentrating on writing new music and have been pulled away from the blog for a little while. And, I’ve been thinking that I may mess with the format a little bit, just to see how that treats me.

Anyways, a friend of mine by the name of Paige came by the other night and used my newly cleaned Canon EOS 20D to take some photos of me playing guitar. Not that this kind of thing has really been the focus of these posts (at all) but…you know, what the hell.

And I tagged this with “Rockstar (more…)

A couple of weeks ago, I decided it was time to get out of town for a bit. Initially, I thought it would be great to drive down the coast to someplace warm(er), like Monterey or San Diego (Sandy Eggo if you’re Steve Poltz). However, I decided because of time constraints to just limit myself to Bend, Crater Lake and the National Redwood Forest. This was my first time doing a totally solo road trip since 2001, and it felt good.

While I did bring my camera, my first priority was to just experience the trip without too much emphasis on capturing everything on pixels. Thus, there are less photos per day on this trip…but there are still some good ones I think.

The photos in this first post are not going to be in any particular order.

Here is sunset on the third day of my trip, as seen from the Redwood National Park scenic coastal drive, near Klamath CA:

Here’s what I did according to (more…)

The gimmick of the “Question Jar Show” is…well…the Question Jar. Once Scrap and Mike finished sound check, they put a big glass jar out on stage with the idea that folks could write questions on a piece of paper (almost wrote “scrap” of paper…oops…sorry Scrap) before the show. The jar was filled by audience members before both sold out shows, and they got very nearly to the bottom of the jar in the course of each 90+ minute set. It was a great way to create intimacy between performer and audience - at least it worked really well for MD.

This is *not* the question jar:

Funny and engaging, both MD and Scrap took (more…)