For Sale

This drum set served me well.  I have had it since I was 13.  But now, trying to make some extra money, I must get rid of it.  I haven't really used it since 2007, anyway.  So I slapped a big "for sale" sign on it, wrote on all the band names my friends and I cycled through while I was the drummer, as well as a nice sized "BUY IT."  It is now sitting in my mother's front yard.  Currently I don't have a front yard, so we had to put it at her place.  We shall see if it sells...

Bang On The Drums All Day

My band never played many covers.  We were doing original songs since we started playing together.  Trying to remember a few that we did play frequently, I came up with " I got no" by Operation Ivy, "Against the grain" by Bad Religion, and "Mickey Mouse is dead" by the Subhumans.  Man, we were awesome.

For Eugene

I've been listening to a lot of Gogol Bordello as of late.  They are a fantastic gypsy punk band, and I would recommend them to anyone.  Even those that are fans of neither gypsy nor punk music.  They create such a unique sound that I feel it is impossible to categorize them and thus, really feel that they deserve a listening to by everyone and anyone before judgments are made.
I figured that with listening to so much of them lately, I should do a picture in honor of them.  I have an old accordion laying around and, well, there are few better things to photograph while listening to the wheezing sounds of an actual one.  The beautiful wheezing sounds, mind you.

Accordion Isolation

I've done detail shots of this accordion before, but felt that this time, the whole thing needed to be in the image.  I love the way the slightly open and curved chambers blend and disappear into the black background.