Friday, May 23, 2008

tatonka

Driving from Corpus to Fort Worth right now...
Needless to say, we've got some spare time.

I thought I'd post some pictures from the past few weeks.
Here's a couple from the morning
after a show in D'Hanis.
Go Cowboys.





































This is TaTonka.
And Daniel.



















seems we have a little too much spare time.

come see us in Fort Worth if you're around tonight...
new place - The Fairmount.
www.thefairmountlive.com

and as long as you're surfing,
check this out:
www.freegougers.com

Friday, May 16, 2008

the church of baseball...

on wednesday, while most of the rest of the settled portions of the great state of texas were facing the height of the fury of a storm so strong and so powerful and so furious that it knocked out every source of power from cut and shoot, tx, to downtown spartanburg, sc (i wax run-on), i was at no other than a high school baseball game.

i love baseball. it has this rhythm and this hum that is mimicked by no other sport lest ye count long rallies in women's tennis (which, thanks to ladies like anna kournikova and maria sharapova, will challenge the validity of baseball's royalty in my following discussion on sport and metaphor...alas, in tennis as in any fantasy of women going back and forth at one another, love means "nothing."). baseball so closely resembles life: a dull routine of "ball. strike. ball. ball. pop fly. change innings" punctuated by these intense surprises and events. a no-hitter. a grand slam. a championship season. a career-ending injury. whatever. baseball and life go hand-and-hand in that regard. it's really something.

Walt Whitman once said, "I see great things in baseball. It's our game, the American game. It will repair our losses and be a blessing to us." You could look it up.

-shane

btw, my team, crawford high school, won vs. the top-ranked team in class 2A. and this is the weekend that the aggies clinch the big XII. so i got that goin' for me. which is nice. i'm feelin' good....

Thursday, May 8, 2008

studio time again...

We've been fooling around in the studio with some new demos....













Elvis was there.