Inbox

A quarter million emails and I don't need to read any of them.

LOU

New Tattoo

Here is my new tattoo that I just got on the 26th. I wanted to get my pitbull Phoenix tattooed on me. I know I post enough pictures of him so most of you know how much I care about him.

Jeff at Electric Voodoo in Vacaville did an amazing job on this one.

Here is the picture I took in to have tattooed.

Here is what came out.

Here is the two together.

LOU

Skittlebrau

Watching a terrible Bruce Willis movie from 1996 and enjoying sour jelly bellies and Pacifico.

I'm feeling kinda low.

LOU

Working With Mike

I've had a hell of a weekend. I was doing a gig at Dimitri's club and the band was supposed to play until midnight. They just kept going an going. I had agreed to help my friend Mike the next morning and had to get up early.

I started complaining to the owner that the band was running really late and showed no signs of stopping. (Not only do I have to stay later for these thing I also don't get paid anything to have to stay late. Apparently some people/musicians give it away for free.)

I was getting quite agitated and let Dimitri know I felt it was unfair and I needed to put my foot down on this stuff.

Anyway with 5 hours sleep I met up with Mike and went to his clients house and help mount a TV to the wall and install an "Around Sound" system. This is a term Mike coined as it could not be hooked up properly to be surround sound and the folks that bought it didn't seem to care.

It was a very humbling day for me as I saw a very nice house and people that were very wasteful with their money spending it on things like this sound system when they either don't care enough to do it right and it's more for show/effect. It made me appreciate the things you have and also made me feel better about all the time I pour into my own projects in order to do it right.

I also wanted to thank Mike semi-publicly on this blog for the work.

I then had to go back to Dimitri's for the Sunday night blues Jam which ran late last time and sure enough ran late this time. And after I lowered my price so Dimitri would hire me more often. It seems it may have backfired as I'm working more hours per gig but getting paid less. I hope this is a trend I can either stop now or walk away from.

So thanks again Mike for the work and the lesson whether you meant to give me one or not.

LOU

Netflix + Lou = Best BFFs Forever

Netflix rocks!

I just signed up for the blu-ray access on netflix and the first disc I got (Die Hard) was cracked and would not play properly. I thought maybe it was just this disc, so I reported it damaged and requested a new copy. The new one arrived cracked as well. So I call up Netflix to ask if this is a common problem. I'm on hold for less than 2 minutes and the guy Chris tells me that the post office is probably running them through their sorting machine and it's cracking the disc. Very likely as the cracks were the same size and in the same place on the discs.

I was content with reporting the issue and waiting for another copy. Instead Chris says they'll send me 2 more discs from my queue immediately as well as the new copy of the broken blu-ray. How is that for customer service. All this for about $20 a month plus unlimited online video streaming.

Why doesn't everyone have this service? It's half the reason I was able to cut my cable completely .

LOU

Sunbathing

I caught him outside just basking in the sun.

LOU

New gig

I recently picked up a reasonably steady gig at this place called Dimitri's lounge in Suisun City.

Mostly mixing jazz and blues. I got to work on the show with Lenny Williams of T.O.P. fame. I couldn't believe that guy can still sing as well as he can. It's a good gig and I'm liking it just fine, if only I could get the guitar players to hear with their ears and not the backs of their knees and turn it down. But then I could probably figure out time travel or some other seemingly impossible feat.

Anyway Mobility undercover (Greasy Kids Stuff) played a gig their and it was a real pleasure to work with these guys outside work at a real nice club.

LOU

Trip Wrap-up

So once again I've been slacking on the updates. I'll finish my tale of our trip down to March AFB.

After finishing our gig at the base I was helping Brandon move his gear over to the O club so he could play for the cocktail hour. He took a spill on the way out trying to tell me to watch his step. It turns out he broke his foot but he still managed to make it through the gig. HARDCORE!

Brandon wanted to go to the hospital so we went to the nearest VA hospital and waited literally an eternity.

The picture says it all. Niko said something about one of the prisoners that was being transported from the hospital ,obviously beat up, and commented "it's just one cage to another" talking about the van that housed the prisoner. I then dropped all of my prison wisdom (None) on Nate and Niko. "That's 'ow it is bro!" To which we could all not stop laughing or saying to each other. It has an accompanying gesture seen in the following photos.

I spent way to much time dicking around in a wheel chair that day and we didn't get back until like midnight.

When I went to return the van so I could go home the folks at the trans-yard had me wash it.

So to conclude 20 hours in a van, 4 at the actual gig, 6 at the hospital, with sleeping and hanging disbursed in between.

That's 'ow it is bro!!!!

LOU