June Matayoshi recently contributed a post to Chicago Classical Music blog about getting by as a freelancer. I have played a lot of gigs with June in the past, and it is great to hear from her on this blog. In the post she describes the complications of keeping a...
Anyone who has spent any time working in an office (I worked in the legal department of Citibank off and on for a few years) can relate to the fantastic movie Office Space. I had a link sent to me recently from YouTube in which someone recut Office Space to make it...
OK–the Bears lost the Superbowl, but this is still a video worth checking out. This is ‘Bear Down, Chicago Bears’ as performed by the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Bryan Griffin:There is another famous individual with the exact same name (only...
Whew! It’s a nice feeling to get that car explosion story off of my chest. I’ve been waiting to put that one out on the internet for a long time. Those event happened in early 2004, and I remember thinking then that this is a story that has to be shared...
This is the worst gig story ever. I’ve told a lot of gig stories on this blog. Some of them are humorous, some are annoying or cringe-worthy, but none even come close to this one. This is the sort of surreal tale that you might see in the movies, but it actually...
