Music, opinions, and portfolio of Mark Eagleton, musician and web developer in Northern CA.
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It's double the double bass at the Yolo County Fair! At least for me. I'll be playing back to back shows with my two favorite bands, The Pleasant Valley Boys at 2PM, and Bottom Dwellers at 4PM. Do I know enough songs to fill three full hours? I believe I can fill 8. Do I have the stamina to play that much blistering twang for such an extended period of time? Wouldn't you love to stop by and find out?
A new They Might Be Giants album nearly released under my radar! Actually it slipped well under my radar, as it seems to have been available via iTunes since May 16th. And indeed, nearly released, as it doesn't actually come out for real until July 10th. I guess the iTunes artist alert feature doesn't apply to pre-release items. As one who prides himself on purchasing the previous 9 TMBG albums on or slightly before their release dates, I still feel okay about being a bit tardy to this pre-release.
I don't know which is worse, the teaser video or the song...
Happy birthday, sis.
Today, someone emailed me an addition they wanted to be made to the "links page" of their website.
This is the Sammies showcase for the Country/Bluegrass category.
BKWLD is one of the featured studios in Taschen's Web Design Studios 2. The best part is that one of the sites I worked on pretty extencively is one of the featured projects: thebeachboys.com
Ella at dinner, asking for a glass of water:
Daddy, what do you say you hook us up with somthin' tah drink?
Two weeks after it's release, it looks like "From Beale Street to Oblivion" is still only available onAmazon. In CD format.
Yesterday's Floating Foam really got me thinking. Specifically, thinking about getting old, and seeing myself fall behind the curve. I mentioned in the comments that it wasn't the technology I saw myself falling behind, but the purposes behind the newest thing.
Are you a seasoned, graphic designer, web developer, video editor, or multi-media guru? Are you excited about the new Adobe CS3 products? Do you already know which CS3 applications you want to upgrade to? Are you a little frustrated that not all of the applications you want come bundled in any of the CS3 Suite packages? Do you need help determining the most cost effective way to purchase the CS3 applications you know you need? I am and I do. I thought others might be too, so I made the Adobe CS3 Configurator.
We use 37signals' Basecamp at work. I totally love it. I also totally love their blog. The "Screens Around Town" category is my favorite. I have a screen shot of something that has always bothered me about Basecamp.
I made an EP out of a few old songs on virb. If you don't know virb, you should sign up and be my friend. It's like myspace without the completely stupid and horribly ugly parts.
Neill Cumpston:
That’s what GRINDHOUSE is. It’s a taquito buffet that you puke up after getting hit with a motorcycle, and it turns into a bikini chick that blows you and kills your boss with a hammer.
After reading John Gruber's thoughts about Tantek Çelik's Three Hypothesis of Human Interface Design yesterday, I felt compelled to contribute to the subject. For those of you mildly interested, but scared of large words, I recommend reading the Daring Fireball post. You'll get the general idea.
At first I considered sending an email to John Gruber about how I overcame iCal's short comings. He is understandably irritated by the interface and all the damned tabbing required to add an event. But then I got to thinking about how drastic a change it was to interact with iCal this new way, and how much muscle memory factored into the process. I thought it might be more helpful to tell the whole internet.
A recent project had me describing the particulars of zip code searching—or more accurately—the accuracy of the results of zip code searching. The client wanted a location search feature in the side bar of their site where the visitor enters a zip code, and is presented with a list of the nearest locations to them, like the one in the sidebar of Walmart.com.
For those of you who are feelin' a little festive this Saturday afternoon, put on a little green and stop by Dillian's Bar & Grill in Lincoln for a little Blue Grass action by TV's Matt & George and their Pleasant Valley Boys. I'm one of the boys.
The particulars are below:
Saturday, March 17th @ 2PM Dillian's Bar & Grill 605 G St Lincoln, CA 95648 (916) 434-8171
A nice frothy Guinness, 1940's style bluegrass, and green socks. Now isn't that just the most delightful way you can picture spending your St. Patty's day?
Ella, as I prepare a bedtime nightcap:
Well, I like strawberries in my princess whiskey.
Well, Wayne Hancock passed through San Francisco two days ago, unbeknownced to me. Again. I try to check the calendar as regularly as humanly possible for me to remember, but again something went up between that day and this morning with a date scheduled right in my back yard for last Sunday. To any professional musicians out there who may be reading this, people who like your music want to know only two things of you at any given time...
My kick ass boss treated us all to the premiere showing of Frank Miller's 300 at the Sacramento IMAX (it feels weird typing that with a capital "i") theater last Friday. I haven't been able to stop thinking about the movie since I left the theater. It was that good.
As being in part of Matt and George's Pleasant Valley Boys, I had the privilege of joining them onSacramento & Co., a local Sacramento morning show. It was my first time on a TV set. Not physically on top of an actual television device. I grew up in the generation of console televisions, after all. TV's were built for climbing on back then. I mean in a studio where they produce live news casts and things.
This one totally caught me off guard, but is a topic I always love to see get media attention. I dream of an America that does't put up with this treatment of women. By put up with, I mean buy oil from, of course.
I've been cranking out a serious number of content management systems lately. You know, those little back-end, password protected parts of your blog or website that allow you to change content on the front end? Different clients have different security needs, and I've certainly seen my share of inconsistent requests lately.
Yesterday's Pleasant Valley extravaganza turned out to be pretty darn cool. We kicked off the day at KDVS for a little guest spot on Robyne Fawx's "Saturday Morning Folk Show." While we were there, we took the opportunity to set up a camera and film a few of the songs for YouTube posterity.