Oh and by the way, pete - I've added you to the admin list so you can get at the page code and mess with things
If anyone has any email addresses for people they would like to see invited to join the page send'em to me I will send out invites.

Hey I have too heard of the Foo Fighters! And I think they're basically OK - nice to see a band that isn't overly hyped. As for Japanese bands, well J-Pop music generally makes Brittany Spears look like Janis Joplin - I never tire of complaining of how bad the worst of it is. The most popular band in the country has had their own weekly tv show for about ten years now, and each member also appears on other shows regularly (at least one tv appearance by a band member every day) SMAP as they are known cannot sing, cannot dance, can't play instruments (one guy plays guitar on stage, and even a three chord wonder like me could do better) don't write songs, and for a band of five guys, are generally prettier than the girls I dated in high school. In North America they woul‚„ have been teen idol flavor of the month and gone is less than a calendar year (New Kids on the Block?)
That said there are still some cool musical things happening here- my favorite being a singer songwriter named Masayoshi Yamazaki, slightly affected but solid singing, a great melodic songwriter, kinda bluesy, good guitarist and great live performer.

Mike - Murakami is very cool!

Kevin,
you haven't heard of the foo fighters? before I give you a hard time about that, tell me what japanese bands I should know about but don't. not one of teose grrrrl bands with a lot of shrieking. foo fighters have a couple of good songs and a bunch of boring ones, kinda straighforward hard-ish rock. their frontman is dave grolsch who was the drummer for nirvana. he writes and sings better than you'd expect from a drummer but still.
new stuff that i'm listening to these days: the delgados (scottish band with deceptively sweet melodies and harmonies, mostly acoustic, and brutaly depressing lyrics) and radiohead. not sure why the uk kick except that they do downer music really well.

Hi folks.
Not sure who is here other than the venerable Hamish and, of course, Kevin. But I say good morning in any case....
Reading: Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Listening: various artists, Do You Know The Difference Between Big Wood and Brush
Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Web: memepool.com

Mike

A new blogger and old friend writes:
Hi Kev

How does one post to the 'shed. I'm keen to let the world know about a great book that I am reading about the ancient relationship between man and eel (no kidding). I read a similar book about cod last summer!

Cheers
Hamish

Hamish, just respond to the invite I just sent you and you should be able to jump right in with minimum of fuss. As far as the relationship between Man and Eel is concerned I think they have laws against that sort of thing.

This week's topic: New pot laws are coming to Canada!

Well, I just sent out a bunch of invites to people to join the woodshed, and more invites will be sent out as I collect valid email addresses.
Pete is your email working or is it still screwed up?

What I'm reading this week:�@Soul Circus by George Pelecanos - an excellent hard-boiled detective novel set in the poorer part of Washington DC
What I'm listening to this week: Slingshot Professionals by Kelly Joe Phelps - can't say enough good things about this guy. I bought his last album for about four different people for Christmas. Fantastic singer-songwriter-lap slide and acoustic guitar player. His music is like staying up all night talking and drinking too much coffee with you best friends. A mix of Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and Charlie Patton - low key and mellow but very intense stuff. What the Yomiuri page for my review soon.

Say Pete,
You being the web wiz you iz, is there a way to monkey about with the web page to display the option of emailing either one of us and could the pictures of rocks at the top of the page be changed? do you have access to that from the publishing page? should we cross post links to your excellent if not often update home page? I there anyone else out there reading this?

Indeed, his high royal hipness is well represented at this link here with a wide selection of transcripts of his inspired art.

Hey Kev, you mouse clickin' daddy, let me lay this link on ya.

Dig Infinity

I didn't know if knew about this or not and I figgered this blog thing was the best way to get the link to you.
Oh, it's a new book on Lord Buckley for sale. Informative blurb though. (good name for a band "Informative Blurb")

Speaking of band names.... Here this month's Useless Information(tm).
I know nothing about this band except where they got their name. Do you know what a "foo fighter" is?
A page on foo fighters.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>P.T.A.H.<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

get on up, get on down

I wonder if this is gonna work?

HUH!

Paperboy on the web
The earth edition of the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, run by the BBC and written by thousands of volunteer researchers, has published my first entry on 'how to play the harmonica'
the guide can be found at www.h2g2.com

ah the wonders of the world wide web. To see what Japan is really like take a look at this
The slogan for the "Gomiuri Shimbun" is dead on.
For those not up on their Japanese stuff the Yomiuri Shimbun is the biggest newspaper here (or anywhere actually - they have a circulation of 10 million a day) and "gomi" is the Japanese word for garbage.

Charisma man rules.....

A Mr. Hoffmann ov Edinboro rowed, Gooelf haz ritten two us axing aboot r fonetic spelln program...........sorry I'll stop that right now. I did get a brief enquiry from Pete about what I wanted on the blog, and this what I told him.

anything and everything. I'm hoping to use it as a sort of chat site to stay in touch with people, about the little things that go on that I never hear about - like jay losing all his hair (what in the name of David Crosby is up with that! Nobody told me and I felt like a schmuck when jay came in at Rich's and I didn't recognize him at first glance), or Tina getting married. Bitching and boasting or more reasonable discussion about big things is also welcome - the hegemonic strategy of the Bush administration, the coming decriminalization of marijuana in Canada, terrorism (of look I've used marijuana and terrorism on the same web site - I suppose this means we are now on a list in Washington somewhere in the basement of some big building), paranoia, freedom of speech, the future of Les Habs (bleak at the moment) the new Steely Dan album due out next month.

I will try to post things I write for the newspaper but you can find it yourself at http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/index-e.htm

If people are interesting in posting on their own, i can very easily set it up for that just by adding names and email addresses - I don't think you even need a (free) blogger membership, though I suppose it is possible.

blogger.com

Ah success at last. The page works! http://kevinswoodshed.blogspot.com/ is on the air!
So!
here's the deal: I see this site as a potential bulletin board for net communication among the various members of the tribe. You can use it to email me, drop by the site to see what I'm up to, and hopefully post your own /announcements, denouncements, pronouncements...thoughts/rants/news/ gossip/ photos etc etc etc. All you have to do is email them to me, request that they be put on the site for all to see and badda-boom, badda-bing - there they are on the page.
Expect some changes to the way this thing looks over the long run as well, once I get some web-wizards to help me do the designing bit.
Meantime.........welcome to the wooodshed!

still having some technical problems so I can't actually look at my own web page

"Hipsters, flipsters and finger-poppin' daddies, knock me your lobes!" Lord Buckley said that
And the rev. said "let there be blogging," and lo, the blogging did begin. And the multitudes began to blog in their pads, in their cubicles and cubbyholes, in their caves and capitals and in all the places...........
And it was swinging baby!