Neil Fein's Blog

Bruce and I been rehearsing a lot this week for our set on Saturday, and I rehearsed last weekend and tonight, for my solo set. This is for a gig where I am sound guy and play two sets during a 13-hour show. I've already started obsessing over my packing list. (Stuff like the PA, speakers, mics, duct tape, and, oh yeah, the guitar would be helpful.)

Meantime, I pulled my bike out of the shop I had it in; seems they won't get the parts in until at the earliest Thursday the 4th. I told them to keep the parts (tires and right shifter) on order and I'll bring the bike back then. I spend the drive to the bike shop seething and calming myself down. No use antagonizing one of the better bike shops in the area. But they could have called me about this.

Labels: audio, bike, music, notbike

I brought my bike into the shop today, to have them look at my wobbly, deformed tires. The mechanic told me that yes, they're defective, and they'll throw on new ones. (I'll be able to return the tires to the tubes I bought them from.) The good news here -- aside from the whole thing where I end up with tires that don't try to throw me on my ass when cornering -- is that, according to the mechanic, I did a fine job when I put on the tires. These are just sucky tires. Actually, tires -- Continental Town and Country -- have given me an incredible speed boost, it's just that these two particular ones are made from mutant terrorist petroleum products that don't understand the concept of balance.

I'll be riding Martha's bike home from my carpool for a few days. (I already raised the seatpost about four inches.) But my bike should be in fine shape for the shore. But I'm without my bike until probably Friday.

On the up side...

I reached 1001 miles for 2007 today. I'm pretty sure I hit 1000 when I was trying not to get blown over by rush-hour traffic on Livingston Campus.

Labels: bike

I saw this while bicycling in Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC, when I stopped for water.

Labels: bike, notbike

I'm playing a gig -- performing a set and doing sound for the rest of the concert at Labyrinth. I think letting me perform there is the bribe the organizers give me so I'll keep doing their sound, which is cool with me. Corruption and a gig in one package.

Labyrinth is an all-day renaissance/goth/other festival, held here in Edison, on September 29th. I still don't know the time I'll be on (will post that when I get it), but the location, etc is on the calendar page.

I also asked for a slot at an open mic this week on Wednesday, but I haven't heard anything back yet; there may not be any spots left. Or I've somehow pissed off the organizer (naaah).

Also...

Since this is a relatively unknown site, a personal blog of interest to only me and a few friends, I figured there were maybe a handful of people looking. Looking at the traffic logs, there are more of you reading than I thought -- not huge crowds by any definition -- but I am getting visitors, 56 this past week. More than the three or four I expected. Given the few if any comments, I'm pretty surprised by even this much traffic.

Aside from the locations where I can pretty much guess who it is, I'm seeing hits from outside the US: Dublin, Norway, quite a few from England, Paris... pretty cool. Not that I'm expecting any response, but if anyone wants to let me know how they found the blog I'd love to hear it. (If I know you personally, of course I know how you found it.)

Labels: admin, audio, blog, gig, music, wicked