Football is meant to be played by 300 pound men wearing helmets

I'm conflicted. I want to like soccer, sorry -- football -- but I don't. I really don't. I like football just fine. No, stay with me -- American football. John Madden and Tom Landry's football. It's soccer, football to the rest of the world, that I don't like. I should probably be more athletically enlightened, but I'd rather watch synchronized swimming than soccer. Hell, I'd rather watch bass fishing. At least something happens in bass fishing, even if its just a snagged lure in the weeds. I'm not going too far out on a limb here in saying that there's a better chance of seeing

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Finally - Culloden

I've tried to write a post about Culloden a few times now. Every time I put it away again, because I start sounding like a history teacher, and I'm certainly not qualified, nor am I interested, in teaching anything.

The truth is that I came to know about Culloden under the least high-minded of ways - through historical fiction. When reading historical fiction, I always try to keep in mind that what I'm reading isn't history - it's fiction. I'm putting a lot of trust in the author to do the research, and stay faithful

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Wonderful Wellies

   

Owen and Ella have lived in Los Angeles all of their lives. Which means that they have lived their lives in a desert. People living in LA don't really think of it as the desert. We water our gardens and our lawns daily to keep things green and growing, we put big spraying

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Pic For The Day - Bob on ProTools

Photo taken by ADR Engineer Extraordinaire -- Ryan YoungI was just scanning through our iPhoto archives and saw this shot. Here's what a total geek I am: when I saw it the first thing I thought was, "Man I wish I still had that track ball."

Last year this time I was sitting in a parking lot cutting ADR while I waited to record Christian Slater. Now I'm sitting at a kitchen table in Scotland editing bagpipes on that same ProTools rig.

Antfield House B&B

We want to go back to Inverness, mostly to stay again at the Antfield House B&B. It's such a cool place, and the innkeepers are terrific.

Before it's life as a B&B, Antfield was a farmhouse, and it's still fantastically farmy all around. The kids fed the ducks in the yard each morning after breakfast, and our room overlooked a neighboring pasture with horses. Inside, on the other hand, was refined and charming.

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