Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

june is coming

tomorrow

and tomorrow

and tomorrow

june

again

Todd Plays the Bass: San Diego CA July 2006 

The Sand Devils Line-Up: San Diego CA July 2006 

The Many Faces of Ivan: San Diego CA July 2006 

Beachwood Digs The Madeira: San Diego CA July 2006 

Action Patrick: San Diego CA July 2006

forever surf at ollie's diner 

forever surf may 19 2006 

Henry Mancini : Greatest Hits

Being that I am still alive on planet Earth, I decided to purchase a new cd: Henry Mancini Greatest Hits.

Well, it's not really a NEW new cd...but, it is new to my cd collection. When I moved back to California from Missouri, I sold the major part of my lp collection to some scumfuck Missouri record dealer in Joplin. He , of course, shit himself when he looked at my Mancini lp soundtrack collection: Peter Gunn, Mr. Lucky, Hatari, A Shot in the Dark, etceteras. Of course, I sold them all for pennies on the dollar. Gas money beacuase Califonia is a long-ass drive from Missouri.

This new cd Greatest Hits is pretty GREAT...even though it doesn't have one of my favorite tunes: Fallout! (that one may still be only on lp...so what can you do?)

The highlights of this cd, however, makes it worth every penny: Peter Gunn, Mr. Lucky, Moon River, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Experiment in Terror, Charade, Pink Panther , A Shot in the Dark, Hatari, Theme from (Zifferelli's) Romeo and Juliet and even the theme from What's Happening!!

Behold the Master: Mr. Mancini's genius shines eternal...

mojave desert pole 

Link Wray

Guitar legend Link Wray died on November 5th 2005 due to heart failure. Famous for his instrumental songs "Rumble" and "Jack the Ripper", Link Wray is known for being the first musician to experiment with the sounds that pioneered rock and roll and punk styles. Link virtually invented fuzz tone by deliberately punching holes in his amplifier speakers. He was also a true pioneer of the use of distortion on instrumental rock recordings. Additionally, Link Wray developed the "power chord" style of rythym/lead guitar years before Pete Townshend utilized it in early Who recordings.

Go to Link's official site: here

The Blue Hawaiians: Live at the Lava Lounge

Saturday, October 1, 2005, at the Lava Lounge Hollywood:

The Blue Hawaiians release party for new CD "Live at the Lava Lounge 2".

...what are you waiting for?

Pete Townshend in blog-space...

Mr. Peter Townshend is now an active blogger at www.blogger.com

He will begin serial-posting of his novella "The Boy Who Heard Music" and accepting comments beginning

24 September 2005 at 1600 UTC (1700 GMT).

Bravo, Pete! And welcome to Marshall McCluhan's nightmare...it's really not all that scary, yet...

newly recorded tune...

if you enjoyed the original 1963 version of "Latin'ia" by the Sentinals, then you just might like dp's remake-home-studio-version titled "Latin'ia 2005". you can locate (and download) the mp3 at dp's myspace place:

http://www.myspace.com/dpsurfmaster

standing on water

from Universal Resource Locator for Sector Seven (the exact center of the universe) blog

standing on water
walking on styrofoam
moving through time and space
like a Bach Sonata
in a wetsuit
reverberation echoes
inside water tubes
like old-time laughter
that I long-ago
forgot all about

originally posted by dave p on monday july 19, 2004, 11:55 am pst

SG101 group compilation CD cover...cowabunga! 

surf guitar 101: member's song compilation

Surf Guitar 101 now features an MP3 compilation of 33 member's surf tunes.

Each MP3 was created and submitted by a member of the Surf Guitar 101 web-community.

The compilation is located here.

Please download the MP3s to help webmaster Brian conserve bandwidth...and enjoy the reverberation!

a cool tale of post-modern urban rebellion (by patrick)

From the Padd E. Boy Blog

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

There Will Be No More Questions - One Small Rebellion, In My Own Fashion

Just this morning I walked into Starbucks for some tea, and the spiffy, short spikey-haired alternative guy started aksing me a million questions, like they always do at Starbucks, trying to prove some point about super duper really good service: Would you like a sleeve? Would you like honey with that? Room for cream? Do you want this? Do you want that? in that annoying happy little overly caffeinated Starbucks voice.

And so I, like the cool tea-drinking tough guy I am, blurted out - "OK, no more questions, just give me the tea." This clearly shook the young coffee maker, as well as the other customers in line. People go to Starbucks for that very reason, to express identity in their special unique combination of cup sizes and coffees and flavors and foams and milks, to show the world who they really are. No one 'just wants a damn drink." The Starbucks order of things had been altered. I had dared to disturb the corporate American cofffee house chain universe. I rebelled in my own fashion against the very standard and protocol of all that is Starbucks: fifty five million ways to server fifity million different goddamn drinks. Just gimme the fucking beverage, would ya??!!

The guy got flustered, looked for a way to save face, did his best to hold back giving me some me lip, which I am sure he wanted (and had a right) to do. Instead, he joked a little, "would you like water with that?" "Yeah, I said, preferably hot." Then, he had forgotten which kind of tea, so I nicely reminded him, feeling a little sorry for him. I've never been a very good tough guy. And, I don't think tough guys drink tea.

- posted by Patrick @ 11:31 AM

desert botanical garden, palm springs california, may 2005 

killing bugs

a cool little article about killing bugs from The Daily Elightenment

"All beings tremble at violence. Life is dear to all. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should neither kill nor cause to kill."
-The Buddha (Dhammapada)

Even among many Buddhists, who agree that it is right to respect life, sometimes find it hard not to swat insects and other "pests" - doing so habitually, out of irritation and lack of mindfulness. Perhaps we should place ourselves in the shoes of these tiny creatures. Are we not much larger "pests" to them, who irritate them much more than they irritate us, especially with our gestures of violence? "Pests" is a relative term then, depending on the angle you view from. The problem is not the pests, but our lack of kindness, which leads us to see them as pests. We can either be "pests" to each other or friends with one another - Why not respect each other instead? Live and let live.

But what about "dangerous pests" which can cause disease? Well, is it not our fault of not keeping the house clean that attracts them? How can we invite them to leave, if we must? Never underestimate the practice of radiating Metta (Loving-kindness). Remember the case of the Buddha using Metta to calm an angry elephant stampeding towards Him? Even insects, which are very sensitive to energies, can sense your well wishes, and decide to "make way" for you.