New Website

So I decided (for some strange reason) to start yet another blog, this time at WordPress. I thought it would be a little more customizable (not really) and there are more mainstream blogs there... but I also wanted to link my blog to my new domain at www.Twyler.com

I like a lot of the Wordpress features, although you have to pay for things like domain redirecting and editing the layout 'themes'. This is pretty silly, but I guess they have to make money somehow... although Blogger doesn't charge for these things. Anyway, check out my other blog at www.twyler.com if you want. I probably won't be posting on this one as much, but who knows.

Thanks for looking, and thanks for being a good person America. (what does he mean by that?) (I don't know)

This was taken on an iPhone, so I guess it's small?

"the Move"

So I'm in a band, and it's called 'the Move'. There also happens to be a 60's psychedelic rock band from the UK called 'the Move'. I did, however, join the band about a year after they started playing together, and had no say in the naming of the band. Obviously, I would have researched the name and found out immediately that it was not such a good idea.
Ironically (I think...) the three of us that are in the band now started playing together about two years ago and had a Myspace under the name "Bishop Delicious", which is actually still online. I like this name much more than our current moniker, and unless I'm missing something, it is totally original and has a lot more 'flavor'.
So... what are we to do? It wouldn't matter much at all if we were just a garage-band and never really got out, but now we're getting gigs every week, going out of town and playing at some semi-serious music festivals! We actually played at the Soundpony not too long ago, and they advertised us as from the UK.
This is not good. Not only can we be sued... but it's just awkward to have to answer those questions. "So, you're from the UK?", or "you know there's an issue with your name, there's already a band with a bunch of cd's called the Move."
I was also in the band "Megatron" (www.myspace.com/megatronband) and we recorded a cd under that name which should be out shortly. While there are a couple bands called "Megatron", none of them are very big, but of course there is a movie, a t.v. show, merchandise, etc...

So I guess I just don't know the 'actual rules' about this stuff, but I know we're breaking them now. Oh well?

The MOVE!

So in case anyone reads this... my band and I will be playing at the Colony tomorrow night (Thursday, Jan. 15th) starting around 10 PM. Also, sitting in with the band will be the incredible guitarist Chris Combs who recently joined the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey. As always, it will be a night full of good music, good friends and good, cheap beer.

Here's a video from our last gig at the ol' Colony...

I hate commercials SO much...

I know that I watch t.v. more than I probably should, especially when I have better things to do (meaning: anything at all to do). And I also have a DVR which allows me to fast forward through commercials on shows that I record. But I absolutely can't stand the stupid, loud and annoying commercials on t.v. these days. When there is something on that I like to watch regularly, I record it so I can just fast forward through the commercials, but I can't record everything on t.v. and there's usually not anything in particular that I want to watch. So I usually flip through the channels trying to find a station that isn't on a commercial, and it's often very hard.

"Why do energy drinks make you crash? Eighteen cups of sugar, that's bad... It's not a drink, more like a sip..." This is one of the worst commercials I've ever seen (you know what it is). The production quality is terrible, the logic they use for buying their product is pretty wrong, and it's just very, very annoying. Oh, and they play it about eight times every half hour on just about every channel. Why don't these people spend some of that money on better ideas and better quality so that viewers don't automatically change the channel when they see the terrible opening of this ad?

I don't know, but it's commercials like these that make me seriously consider canceling my dish service and just watching movies on occasion. I already feel bad for spending so much time in front of the t.v. and getting nothing in return (often not even enjoying the show), but having to sit through 10-15 minutes of low-level annoying advertisements makes me sick.