Upon dismantling my first generation G4 PowerMac, I salvaged a side panel and managed to make a stylish clock out of it. I had seen a pic of someone else doing this a while back and thought I’d like to give it a shot. It took some planning and a bit of hardware (and cursing), but it all worked out in the end. Now I can say that after all of these years of collecting dust in the corner, I’ve finally found a use for my ol’ friend. Cheers, mate!

In case you guys don’t know already, I listen to a lot of music on a daily basis. I mean, a butt-load! Damn near 24-7. Anyway, I listen to net radio continuously at work and recently ran across a station that plays nothing but songs from the 90’s.  While they claim to hand pick their playlists you still hear all the popular picks from the corporate radio, but that’s ok, they also have some demos and rare finds in there. Anyway, it’s been really great listening these past coupla’ months and I sometimes reminisce back to the old college days. Some of the songs really strike a chord with me because of certain situations going on at the time. Anyway, I’ve built a small playlist of my own to kinda celebrate the music movement we had back then. While I couldn’t put all my favorites in here, I think it’s still a good representation of the variety of bands we had to party with. Much better than today’s music, if you ask me. Continue »

keepin’ with the theme of dead heroes, monday marks the 6th anniversary of the passing of the one & only Joey Ramone, frontman of the bubble-punk pioneers, Ramones. my first exposure was way back in the day with pet cemetery, written for Stephen King’s film of the same name. Continue »

13 years ago today, we lost one of my most favorite artists: Kurt Cobain. Say what you will about the man and his music, everyone’s entitled to their own opinion, but I’ve seen very few 3-man bands who could deliver the amount of energy that Nirvana produced. Continue »