Muskblog: the sad, pathetic truth

What can I say, they gave me a day pass. My coworker made me go into the alley so she could photograph me. The drug dealers liked my costume. Wonder what Otis will think? This will undoubted add to the seasonal popularity of my website. Apparently now they want to [...]

Apparently I’m overdue in updating my blog, well some might not say so, but I notice the traffic, the strange traffic, which still outnumbers any attempts I’ve made to affect positive change in the world.
I’m back from watching Shogun Rua be robbed by some judges of the world title he rightfully won, but rather than [...]

Everyday I lie in bed thinking. Sometimes for the entire day. Certain themes and questions are overwhelming, they haunt me. They affect me everyday, they affect what I say, what I do, what I write. I know this and I want other people to know this as I don’t think it [...]

This is my favourite style and one I’ve been trying to approximate a lot over the last year or so. R. L. Burnside was a big discovery for me. Seeing him as well as JJ Cale and Bruce Cockburn prompted me to ditch the pic for good.

My Chinese guitar teacher indeed most teachers [...]

So last night I headed to the Biltmore early and alone. I didn’t take a picture of the tour van with the Texas plates but it was pretty easy to tell who’s it was. Austin Texas’s own, though all the members were born and raised in Canada, but Grady had returned to town, [...]

While on Main Street I saw a gig poster for local show that caught my eye. It is headlined by the Mahones but also playing are the Popes, Shane MacGowan’s other band. The Mahones are from Kingston Ontario and famously took their name after the Pogues had to drop Mahone from their name [...]

So I couldn’t sleep after totally wasting my weekend. I ended up making an iLike Music Quiz and reading old Gordie Johnson interviews. Then I decided to indulge myself and go to the Gretsch Guitar website.
I’ve never actually played a Gretsch, I guess I’m waiting until I can afford one. I promised [...]

Today was Main Street Drift, it also was the 3rd year of Darren’s Immortal Brush Competition. This was the first year I was in the store for the announcement of the winners and the first year I didn’t enter a thing.
The first year I entered every category but one, and I may have even [...]