I was not able to attend Adam's performance at the end of the summer program, but I did get to experience some of it.  In a previous entry, I noted that the family came together to build his parrot headgear.  Also, he and I read through his lines a few times. What was nice about the ...  read more

This was the official (combined) 2nd-grade class Spring Pageant. The kids entertained us with singing, dancish stuff, and storytelling. It was a great time out. A full collection of photos is available to friends & family on our Flickr Set.  read more

This evening's performance was wonderful. Basically, all the dual-language (English-Spanish) classes got together at the Bothell Performing Arts Center and had their yearly performance. The kids sung and dance and showed off their increasingly firm grasp of both languages in a collection of songs...  read more

I call October 2005 "Red October."  It was sort of a sequel to Dark Side Summer; in this month, I went from being a local musician, member of two bands, veteran of more than 20 performances, to being nobody in particular. I had enjoyed making live music.  My time with Rhyth...  read more

I was a casualty in the Battle of the Bands. Killarney Star played in a locally hosted contest called "Battle of the Bands"; we lost.  It just wasn't happening that night.  The place we played was Common Grounds, one of the best venues in town -- in a new location.  Th...  read more

On this day, Killarney Star played what I will always remember as one of my favorite shows, at a place called A.J.'s in Jacksonville, Florida.  It was a double bill, us and one of my favorite bands, redboy.  We'd played with redboy previously at V-fest and The Social. That night . . ...  read more

One of our few out-of-town shows was at The Social in Orlando, Florida.  That night, we played with two incredible bands -- Mercy and redboy. But man, was it hard.  My wife was still away in Cambodia.  There was no one to share the good times with. Between this show and the n...  read more

On this date, a period of my life began that I later came to call Dark Side Summer. My wife got a summer internship to Cambodia.  Now, she has always been supportive of my music.  This was the very night she was to be flying out of the U.S., hypothetically gone for three months. ...  read more

Killarney Star released an album on this day, Starfish, with me on bass and my friend Andy Anderson on drums.  Our CD release party was at a club downtown called The Atlantic. Oh, man, is this ever a story. Kaley, a.k.a. Killarney Star, wrote and arranged all the music the band perform...  read more

A year before this day, I played the Market Street Pub with Rhythm Method, as part of V-fest.  Now, here I was, playing the same festival, but with Killarney Star. For the past eight months, we had not only been playing shows, we had been recording an album.  Mixdown was in progress;...  read more