Listening to books...

Ok. Its been a few weeks since I last posted and I want to try to keep this blog updated on a semi-regular basis. So this short post is an update to what I've been doing lately. I've continued to study for my licensing exam and feel I'm much closer to being ready to take it. I'll be glad to get that over with. Jae and I continue to prep our house for the market, and I continue to play soccer on Sundays and play music with my band. One relatively new thing is that I've discovered that the local library has audiobooks for download. I've downloaded a few books and have been listening to them. I never thought I would like listening to books, prefering to read them, but I've found that I quite enjoy listening to the narration. This is partly due to the voice acting which makes it almost like a movie but inside your head. It makes me think of the time before T.V. when people would gather around the radio to hear a story program. I've listened to the first two books of the Prydain Chronicles, which includes the Black Cauldron. Unfortunately the library doesn't have a subscription to the last three books in the series which is a disappointment (audiobooks are expensive $20 compared to a $6 book). So if anyone has access to these audiobooks through their library please let me know. The other books I've been listening to are "His Dark Materials" by Phillip Pullman. There was recently a movie based upon the first book, 'the golden compass'. Needless to say the books are much better than the movie (same goes for the black cauldron). Anyway, that's what I've been up to lately. Well I have to get to work. Later.

A sad day... in my world of music

Its a sad day for me (well sad night) as I just learned that one of my favorite bands, Rescue, disbanded and the drummer from my other favorite band, Moneen, quit the band. The disbanding of Rescue actually happened over a year ago (and the fact that I've just learn about it now is sad in itself). The drummer from Moneen, Peter Krpan, is one of the best drummers out there and he was a major reason why I liked Moneen so much. Hopefully Moneen's new drummer can fill in role Peter played (no pun intended).

sigh...