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It’s been a wild year for me when it comes to music. My band released our second CD, the EP, “Come and Take It” which was named one of the top CD’s of 2007 by Houston Calling and generally received great reviews all the way around. In addition, I began writing a blog […]

It’s New Year’s Eve, the Texans won and all is strange in the world. For me, it was a busy, productive and interesting year full of music, photos and the internets.
I was going to go through all my posts and put a bunch of links about the year, but I decided that:
1. I’m too […]

I got this idea from someone…
Frankly, my photos are not on her level. Katya’s (aka Slight Clutter) images are as stunning and brilliant as she is. Check out her series of posts listing her top 10 photos of the year. They are amazing.
I too have my favorites of the year and I […]

Oh, it was quite the year for purchases related to music, photography or computer technology. I spent way too much money and loved pretty much every minute of it. Here’s a rundown of my purchases for the year, but only the big stuff. I’m not going to bore you with every software […]

I’ll admit it. I spend WAY too much time reading blogs, playing on Flickr, goofing off on MySpace and posting on bulletin boards like the Texas Photo Forum and ClutchFans.net. But, I do manage to squeeze both my work and my life in there too. It’s not like I’m killing THAT many […]

Continuing my personal assault on all things 2006, I move on to the movies I saw in 2006.  To be honest, I wanted to see a lot more movies than I actually saw this year.  There were a lot of films out that either didn’t make it to a theatre around here or just weren’t […]

Time for a little retrospective on the year that was 2006.  First installment is my list of CD’s I purchased either at the store or online via iTunes this year.  In the next day or two, I’ll go through movies I saw, gear I bought (i.e. music, camera and computer) and, finally, my “what the […]