My Blue Heaven

Have you ever wondered what happens when you are bored, staring at your ceiling, and there is a Nikon D200 sitting next to you?  This is what happens!!!!!

I was doing some post on some stock photography tonight and came across this picture.  Give the daily news about our current economic situation, it sort of jumped out at me.  I actually took this sometime this last summer.

Between some new photo gear and some high end kitchen equipment, I have been doing my part to stimulate the economy.

The merged Sirius/XM music channel lineup was unleashed on us today.  Basically, all the XM channels that I love are now gone.  They have been replaced with the Sirius counterparts.  The music is fine, they play pretty much the same songs, but why do I need all the talking between songs?

I have pad data showing me what is playing, I don’t need some DJ that couldn’t get a job in terrestrial radio telling me what I just heard and what is coming up next.  I can listen to local FM for that.

Not even 24 hours and I miss the old XM lineup already.

Damn you Mel Karmazin, I hate you.

I am sitting in my home office this afternoon catching up on some paperwork that I have been neglecting all week.  For some reason, I decided to put in Concrete Blonde’s debut album.

There was a time that this was a very rare CD.  It has since been re-released and is well worth the money.

This post though is not a review.

For some reason the very first track caused a flood of memories of me and some friends going to a club in Tucson on a Saturday afternoon to buy tickets to see Concrete Blonde that evening.  It was a small club, today it would be called an intimate setting, but it was really just a dump that happened to be a great place to see live music.

When we walked in, Johnette Napolitano was sitting on the pool table.  It was a hot day in Tucson, as most days in Tucson are so we ended up having a few beers and hanging with her.

The show was great, but the highlight of the event was that afternoon just hanging out with the star of the show.

Looking back on it now, it seems like it happened in a past life, but I remember it like it was yesterday.  Music is a great time machine!!!!!!!!

I was sitting at the computer tonight looking for a picture to share here.  I came across this one.

It really is nothing more than a snapshot I took last year during a guided tour of the Washington State Capital building.  It always catches my eye though when I am looking at it.