I got this from my friend Mark Weinberg’s MySpace blog. He is the biggest Star Wars nut I know. I also love Star Wars so I had to post this:

Most sexually suggestive lines in Star Wars
10. “Get in there you big furry oaf, I don’t care what you smell!”
9. “Luke, at that speed do you think you’ll be able to pull out in time?”
8. “Put that thing away before you get us all killed.”
7. “You’ve got something jammed in here real good.”
6. “Aren’t you a little short for a stormtrooper?”
5. “You came in that thing? You’re braver than I thought.”
4. “Sorry about the mess…”
3. “Look at the size of that thing!”
2. “Curse my metal body, I wasn’t fast enough!”
1. “She may not look like much, but she’s got it where it counts, kid.”

The Empire Strikes Back
10. “I thought that hairy beast would be the end of me.”
9. “Size matters not. Judge me by my size, do you?”
8. “There’s an awful lot of moisture in here.”
7. “But now we must eat. Come, good food, come…”
6. “That’s okay, I’d like to keep it on manual control for a while.”
5. “Control, control! You must learn control!”
4. “Hurry up, golden-rod…”
3. “I must’ve hit it pretty close to the mark to get her all riled up like that, huh kid?”
2. “Possible he came in through the south entrance.”
1. “And I thought they smelled bad on the outside!”

Return of the Jedi
10. “Hey, point that thing someplace else.”
9. “I look forward to completing your training. In time you will call me master.”
8. “I never knew I had it in me.”
7. “There is good in him, I’ve felt it.”
6. “Grab me, Chewie. I’m slipping — hold on. Grab it, almost… you almost got it. Gently now, all right, easy, easy, hold me Chewie.”
5. “Hey, Luke, thanks for coming after me — now I owe you one.”
4. “Back door, huh? Good idea!”
3. “She’s gonna blow!”
2. “I think you’ll fit in nicely.”
1. “Rise, my friend.”

And the best of them all…

“Wedge! Pull out! You’re not doing any good back there!”

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I’ll be in Dallas tonight (Friday the 13th) playing at Poor David’s Pub with Patrice Pike. We start around 9-ish. I’m just subbing for Brad Houser while he does some Critters Buggin dates.

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I played bass on my third country record this past weekend. The first two records were some demos with Jack Ingram and Elizabeth Wills’ record Road trip. This time it was with Houston Marchman. Houston is really more Texas singer-songwriter/Americana than hee haw, but it is about as country as I get. Jack Ingram used to introduce me as John “T” Country. I think he was making fun of this city boy. Anyway, I can’t wait to hear how the session turned out. the whole thing happened so damn fast. Houston would strum his way through a song and then we would cut it usually in one take. I know we did six songs that day, but there are two that I don’t remember doing because we did them so fast. Totally different than the way we are doing the Matt Nathanson record. With Matt, we are looking for that one magical take off each song and that can take a little while to get everything dialed in. I personally like the one take approach unless there is a train wreck and it was nice to see it in action last weekend.

My buddies Kyle Schneider played drums and Gabe Rhodes played guitar, so that had a huge impact on the magic. MVP of the session has to go to Milo Deering. Milo played with Lee Ann Rimes for a couple of years. I knew he was a monster Guitar/Pedal Steel player from the Elizabeth Wills Road Trip session, but he broke out the fiddle for some songs with Houston. He plays so beautifully and has such a great sound. Better than any fiddle player I’ve heard in a while. I’ll be sure to post some clips when I get a copy.

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The Portland Mercury asked some influencial local musicians to list their favorite records of 2005.

Here is what Alex James from Dolorean wrote:

1. Tenlons Fort – The Golden Handshake
2. Jose Gonzalez – Veneer
3. Smog – A River Ain’t Too Much to Love
4. Bill Fay – Time of the Last Persecution
5. Dinosaur Jr. – You’re Living All Over Me
6. Holy Sons – My Only Warm Coals
7. Antony and the Johnsons – I Am a Bird Now
8. Boards of Canada – The Campfire Headphase
9. Neil Young – Prairie Wind
10. Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney – Superwolf

Pretty cool…..TFort is at the top. I’m pretty psyched since it was my first time engineering and we had to do some hard core guerilla recording. But Jack Gibson is the shit and so are his songs, so he made it super easy.

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Seahorse is playing Wednesday’s at Momo’s Club this month. It’s been about 6 months since we played a show, which is a total bummer. Unfortunately, Seahorse is sort of a side project and we are all busy with our main gigs. It is always fantastic when we get to do it and it looks like it will be a regular thing for January.

SeaHorse is David Hess, Chris Downey, Billy Cassis, J.J. Johnson and myself.

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I now have a MP3 player/jukebox on my sidebar. It has some songs from Blu, David Garza, Craig Marshall and Tenlons Fort. I played on all these songs. I hope you like them and that the player works. You might not have the right flash player plug-in if it doesn’t, and you have to click it to start it up once the playlist loads. Feel free to open up another window for surfing and let this one play on while you do your thing on the internet.

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