I just realised it is already New Year in NY so happy new year for 2010! HAVE A FAB GEAR AND GROOVY 12 MONTHS!

oh yeah, and let's get story time going again. By the way, I will have some biographical writing up on my blog in the next day or so. I have put a couple of things up there in the last month.

Hiya. Maybe you can find a drum teacher who isn't into real estate? The whole wagon thing is pretty serious for me, my not very good health anyway would be shot to hell by any full time return to fun substances and drinks. I have only fallen off a couple of times in 15 years and never for more than a day or so, but my first day of being good again, Saturday, was pretty fraught. We travelled back early from Ventura, and although I planned to rest in the day, it never really happened. When I went to the party to jam in the evening, a dickwad drunk racist got on my back about driving all immigrants into the sea, how Spaniards are educated Mexicans and how the English are a bunch of faggots. I tolerated this drivel for a while, but have you ever been in the scenario where the objectionable drunk insults and offends you on the one hand while thinking you are their best friend and constantly following you around on the other? That was my fate, and the only way out was to come home before 9, the earliest I have been home from a party since my age hit double digits! There was a big temptation on my part to play hide the contents of the tequila bottle but I didn't, and I seem to be back to my fluffy world of fruit juice and diet soda! (Yes, I know that's bad for me too!)

I wasn't a mad keen Pinter fan, but 'The Birthday Party' and 'The Servent' are very good. Joseph Lossey made a movie of 'The Servant' with Dirk Bogarde and (I think) James Fox which is excellent. I never saw Pinter on stage as an actor, but I have seen Krapp's Last Tape as part of a Beckett festival some time back. I think that the British actor Billie Whitelaw was in it, She was great as I recall, and comedy actor Warren Mitchell was in Godot.

I am not welcome at my local community theater anymore, nor would I want to go. There is one guy who would want to be involved in some kind of reading for Pin ter there, but I doubt it will happen. Back in the late fifties, this theater was actually cutting edge for it's status and location, they even performed some Beckett at a theater fest in 1959. These days it is Seussical the Musical and please check your creativity in at the door. I am directing some teenagers in a trifle at The Lindsay Theater, 15 miles away from here. The kids are so enthusiastic, I couldn't turn it down. We will be doing a short pre-show, a musical ghost story written by me. We start rehearsal on Monday and I have to finish writing my piece (not to mention four or five songs to go in it). These kids have had little or no exposure to Theater other than the enthusiasm of a local English teacher who also runs this theater. He is a whizz at Grant writing so the place has some useful lighting and sound equipment. The kids are up for this, and I will enjoy it I know. A month to rehearse and 4 performances is about the right amount of time for me. I will be out gigging with a changed and expanded band again by late February.I would love to read the piece you submit to the NY Fringe Fest. I will fin ally get another book out in 2009, I have two things on the go

Hope you have a festive New Year and that 2009 turns out to be one to remember for all the right reasons. Have a great year my friend.

Christmas was good, and featured an unexpected temporary return to booze which was both scary and nice. On the wagon again, back in Bumfuck, CA and getting ready to jam the night away at my bass players party. PLUS, I recorded three Bogart movies on TCM Christmas night so Sunday will be a black and white vision of happiness.

You're so full of YAY! I love you. You're so full of it.

And the same to you!

Happy Crimbo and a kickoutthejamstastic New Year!

Hey there. What's shaking?

Hey girl!

I download all the Mackey shows as I don't have FX on my cable roster, and I hadn't got round to watching it yet (Too many 'Sarah Jane mysteries' from the UK to get through) but some bastard did a verbal spoiler so I kind of know. I would have rather he was blasted to death by a swat team really. I knew a kind of Vic M in London, he was a cop on the take who had a reel to reel video recorder at home about two years before VCR's were commercially available. Nice guy though

i'm back! and i've missed you!

Leaving my band maybe, but not playing. I have been asked to join an alt. country band who work a lot. Not exactly my music, but they are good at what they do and the money is very good at what it does. It can go a long way towards helping me pay legal fees so that I can get my residency problems sorted out. can also work on my own music and hopefully get a writing project going.

As for MTC, I have a backlog of mixes I want to do. I am doing a Henry VIII banquet one for the contest but I am nowhere near finishing it yet. Anyway, like I said before, it is good to have you back.

Just got back from a coastal trip myself. Drove all night so I am a bit spaced right now. It is very good to hear from you. I am a bit under the weather but that seems to be the way of it these days. A spate of Christmas gigs are coming in. I am leaving my band once they are done, but I need the money. I am glad you are going to get down to writing, that is what I need to do too. I did my first blog entry in about seventy years last week, but that is hardly going to be pulling in the Booker prize now is it! I imagine you will be glued to the telly tonight to see what happens to Vic M. I am hoping he gets away with everything but I suspect that it will all end bloodily.

Come home soon

Hope nothing else shit has happened. Things seem to be turning a corner for me, I seem to be getting offered music work from all sides, though I don't feel up to doing tons and tons. Take care

Bloody hell. I am sorry about your friend, glad that your Dad is back home. A heart blockage was part of my problem when I was in hospital a year back. I had angioplasty and am doing much better as a result. As for your job, I have to ask, was any head kicking involved?

I am still not feeling too great, and am having the usual tests, X rays, faith healers etc. I am still playing, I have a gig tonight, although I just learned that my other guitarist is "unavailable" for three weeks. Ah well. Enjoy your new found freedom!

Can't wait to get my hands on Black Ice! It's apparently GOOD STUFF.

You are missed. Hope you are ok

How are you? Stayed in a haunted inn last night after a gig. The only thing that came back to haunt me though was last night's tri-tip sandwich!

There was this Indian girl at my school whose name was Priti Buch (pronounced Pretty Butch) On the first day of school my friend was standing next to her, and when a teacher asked "Are you pretty butch?" he said in a deep voice "No, but I am!" Priti was pretty cool too as it happens, very quiet, but a demon at racket ball.