Well, the publication isn’t exactly about my soap opera known as “life”, but it is about music!  Behold, Local Sounds Magazine is now publishing content!  Hooray!

In related news, Local Sounds TV is currently attempting to get the post production crap underway for the MAMAs coverage and we were recently approached to cover a CD/DVD release party on June 12th.  Means that the video coverage is something that I think people are gonna latch onto sooner than later.  Friggin’ A, Bitch!

Last bit of Local Sounds updates (since that’s what the recent weeks of my bitchin’ life have consisted of), we are currently in discussions about a sweet deal that would have Local Sounds acquiring (or merging with) a local website that’s proved to be very popular amongst the music scene with some nationwide penetration (mmmmm).  Stayed tuned for that bit of fun later this year if all talks go well!

Anywho, there’s been a lot of going on with the band too.  Just finished up a couple of concerts, one being Felicia’s Trade CD release party at the Frequency on May 22nd (read about it on Local Sounds Magazine!) and May 24th at Brat Fest.  Those were the shit.

As usual, the Madison Area Music Awards never die.  I’m actually working on the updated site as we speak and we are opening registration soon instead of October.  Talk about a year round ordeal!

Next, just planning on doing some hard core remodeling around the house.  We’re pricing and planning right now to tear out my condo’s back door so we can replace it.  It’s not sealed right and it appears it was kicked in at one point.  Very attractive to the next buyer.

As a final note, that has to be the worst, most God-awful, photo of me ever!  However, the point of the pic is the shirt, not my ugly mug.

So that’s been “the rest of the story” for me.  Now take a hike you moron, and I’ll see you next time I post…

The birthday girl is 5 years old!

Originally uploaded by jabloggy

That’s right folks, this week is National Lexi Week! My fuzzy lil’ daughter turns 5 and we’re celebrating! The celebration consists mainly of balloons, streamers, a cake, and her taking extra long naps and playing with string. Oh to be a cat! Life, so simple!

So everyone, please join me in saying HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEXI!

Yay!  There is a great level of stress that has been reduced to something a tad more manageable now that the Madison Area Music Awards are over.  You can see a list of the winners at http://www.themamas.org (if you care that much!).

For Local Sounds, we had a great response!  This year we debuted Local Sounds Magazine, Local Sounds TV, and MadisonUrban.com.  We also pushed out a new version of the Local Sounds site as well.  It has been a crazy few months, but we / I made it!

Local Sounds TV was by far the hit of the night.  Once we started getting some interviews lined up, it seemed everyone wanted to be on TV!  I was planning on maybe 5-8 interviews tops during the red carpet between 6:00 and 7:00.  We ended up doing tons more for a grand total of about 3 hours!  It was crazy!  And after we were done doing interviews, artists and kids alike were regularly using our Local Sounds backdrop as a place to take photos (see photo).  Awesome!  Not to mention free press for us…. suckas..

That’s right Jabloggyites.  The reason I’ve been missing in action for so long is because I’ve been going bonkers with preparing for the 6th Annual Madison Area Music Awards (MAMAs) here in Madison.  I’m winding down here finally as the music awards are this Saturday, May 9th.

Here’s a brief rundown of what I’ve been doing:

• Designed and printed 1000 hand fliers
• Launched MadisonUrban.com, a new community for the urban / hip-hop / R&B scene in Madison
• Built and deployed Local Sounds Magazine, a new online magazine covering the music scene in Madison
• Tended to and maintained the Madison Area Music Awards website (I’m the web guy on the board of directors)
• Built and deployed the website for Local Sounds TV, a new service we’re launching this Saturday
• Managed the design and construction of a 4×8 Local Sounds backdrop for the Local Sounds TV video booth at the MAMAs on Saturday
• Planned the booth for Local Sounds at the music awards in the lobby
• And I think that’s everything…

So see?  I wasn’t faking it!  Oh, and before Saturday I still plan on updating the Local Sounds website, so hopefully by this weekend you can go to localsounds.org and check out all the features I’ve listed above.

Thanks for your patience, and I should be back a little more often very soon.

Over the weekend and through yesterday my girlfriend and I spent a lot of time painting 2 more rooms in my condo.  Good times, painful times (thanks Erica, for enduring the pain).  You can check out our brilliant masterpieces in my Condo Flickr Set.  New paint photos are the last ones in the set, the newest.

Don’t be too harsh when judging how well we did, otherwise my girlfriend will probably come kick your nuts in.

Sooooo, do we believe the government and WHO?  OOORRRRR do we believe that this latest “epidemic” known as the Swine Flu (no offense to all forms of pork out there) is merely a human-generated laboratory experiment gone wrong?  The next thing to get out of the lab could be the T-Virus, and then we’re ALL EFFIN SCREWED.  As they say on the morning show on WJJO in Madison: Watch out for the zombie apocalypse!

Are these “new” diseases scares real?  Or are they all just in our head and only as serious as the original Human Flu that we’re accustomed to?  I wonder what else they are hiding from us, or what lies they are feeding us.

Makes me wonder if we’re even really in a “recession”, huh?  Aside from all the signs that we supposedly see around the country, is there really a recession or is it all in the power of the mind?  That ooey gooey substance known as the human brain is pretty damn powerful.  Who knows when they will take over and they won’t need our bodies anymore to survive….

Greetings Jabloggyites!  Just wanted to post a message and make you aware of the new feature at the bottom of the right column.  Now you can subscribe to Jabloggy updates via email!  It’s essentially the same as subscribing via the RSS feed (orange man on the park bench (or toilet) above) but instead of having to check your favorite feed reader regularly, you’ll just get an email from Jabloggy with the new content!

Can you life get any better??!!  Well probably, but only when I decide to add another feature.  Enjoy!

This past weekend I was up in my hometown for a nice 4 day weekend. But it wasn’t all fun and games! For some strange reason (and because I can be a nice guy) I was up there to assist with the production of my old high school’s musical this year.

Now before all of you start emailing me asking me to come help with your high school musical, I want to make it clear that I did this only because it was a special occasion! See, when I was in high school, we put on a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. This year happens to be the 10-year anniversary of that show, so they did a fancy little alumni cast reunion (only a handful of them showed up, but it was still nice) at the end of the final show on Saturday night. I was featured as an alumni pit band member, along with another girl who came back to help out on piano.

It was weird to be back there again, especially since it was 10 years ago already and it feels like only 2. I didn’t really feel all that old, but when you think about it, the kids that were in the show were like in 4th and 5th grade when we did it. NOW I feel old!

I realize my presence on Jabloggy has been a little quiet, only posting once a week for the last few posts. Unfortunately, it might get worse before it gets better. See, it’s MAMAs season (Madison Area Music Awards) here in Madison, and I always gets pulled in several different directions at once during the next couple of months (le sigh…).

But after all the hub bub is over, I expect to be able to talk about a few new things for Local Sounds that we’re planning on debuting and promoting at the music awards. If all goes according to current plans it should be a good time (for us and maybe you too! don’t worry, we’ll share!).

In other news, I have to take back everything I said in the last post about Mac. I failed to mention that I was giving him a test drive last week. I took him out of the shelter as a foster parent to see if he and Lexi would get along. As (crappy) luck would have it, Lexi wasn’t overally keen on the idea of having a buddy around all the time. Plus after looking at the expenses incurred with a second child, I came to the conclusion that I would have to wait to expand my family. So last Saturday I had to take him back. It was sad, but I’m sure he’ll find a good home!

Over this past weekend we made an hour and a half trip up to my hometown so I could spend the five minutes setting up my parents’ new Wii (read the manual!). While we were there my other half had to stop by the humane society (again) to look at kitties so she could get one for her and her daughter.

Guess who left with one instead?

Everyone, please say hello to Mac, Lexi’s newest roommate and eventual new best buddy (right now she’s still on her hissing period). He is 6 months old and in serious need of a declawing! But so far he is the most playful, most cuddly cat I’ve ever had. Lexi used to be that way too, but I think her adult years have forbidden to behave that way anymore (I think she’s really just jealous of him being so much younger and free-spirited… he’s got the world on a string!).

I’m sure now that I have two cats that I will provide a few more interesting stories about them from time to time. As Lexi got older I stopped writing about her because she doesn’t do as much cute and fun stuff anymore except talk to me. I could write about her more, but it would be the same story “She did stuff today: slept… ate… pooped… stared out the window… repeat”.

And if you’re wondering, yes he’s intentionally named after the computer from which I write this post. (GEEK)