First, I thought I’d post for a few guys out there who should dig these songs. The first is Scott Amendola Band. Scott Amendola is the pretty f’n killer drummer in the first song (wait until about 6-7 minutes in — this guy just rips). I heard this song via the Pandora music player. [...]

One thing I forgot to mention in all of these posts is what it was like growing up in the Shoumatoff household… Really, there aren’t “words that can describe it,” as good friends & fam can testify to… But one thing was the plethora of guitars that were always floating around the house. Brazilian, old blues [...]

  Sorry, hitting play is mandatory to reading this post… I thought it would be “mind blowing” idea to post about good hippie rock from the early 70’s that was “complex!”  But now I realize just how retarded that thought is.  Of Course there was good hippie rock in the 70’s. And even stuff that was complex.  [...]

This post is sort of like preaching to the quoir.   If you haven’t read the book then these quotes might bounce right off you.  That is -  unless you have a real adventure about yourself; enjoy seeing things not in all of their beauty - as beautiful.  Wanterlust, quirkyness, a love of America…   If you have this [...]

The answer?  20 years after Ronald Reagan famously removed Jimmy Carter’s solar hot water panels, George W. Bush installed the largest solar array on the Whitehouse out of anyone, believe it or not… Since September 2002, a grid of 167 solar panels on the roof of a maintenance shed has been delivering electricity to the White House [...]