Happy Thanksgiving!

Tofurky photo by quarrygirl.com

I hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving!

I go for the Tofurky myself, but whatever you ate, I hope you spent some good times with family and friends.

Whatever your diet, though, the story of the Tofurky is actually pretty inspiring.

-Ryan

The Hardest Math

As much as I don't like to think about my life in this way, I broke down the math today...

168 hours per week

56 sleeping
45 working
10 eating
10 doing chores
10 recreating
7 in transit

leaves...

30 hours for music, which is both a great gift and nowhere near enough.

-Ryan

No One Said It Would Be Easy

I got to see Cloud Cult put on a beautiful show last night! The movie about them, No One Said It Would Be Easy, is amazing, too.

-Ryan

Enjoy Your Rabbit

photo from yocheckthisjam.com

I am a total sucker for a good lyric. Frightened Rabbit got me today:

"I am armed with a past and a will and a brick...I am armed to the teeth and I'm heavyset."

Of course, you have to hear it.

-Ryan

The Brass Ring

photo by Brooklyn Vegan

photo from WHYY

Holy crap! I heard Screaming Females on NPR. In the nerdiverse I consider myself to inhabit, I'm pretty sure that means they have offically "made it." Congratulations all the way to the Females!

-Ryan

Hunchback And The Ergs Reunite For A Benefit Show

The mighty Hunchback and The Ergs back together at Asbury Lanes for one night only to raise money to help the Nixon family with Jackie Nixon's battle with cancer! Tickets go on sale Monday, 25 Oct; show is Sunday, 5 Dec.

Amost 500 people have already RSVPed on Facebook. I will see you there. (Edit: or maybe not? Tickets sold out before I could get one! Maybe they'll add another show?) (Edit: They did; I went; it rocked!)

-Ryan

This Saw Can Sing

photo by Anthony Battiato

John Valencia, who played in Glad Hearts for a long time, could play a mean singing saw (among a lot of other things). In 2009 he even played in the world's largest singing saw ensemble. Today, I came across a video of it. (John's in green in the back).

Here's John playing the saw on "The Tired Doctor."

-Ryan