Will Chatham

I may have men­tioned this before, but I spent some time at Epitonic.com today, and wanted you faith­ful read­ers to know about it. Epi­tonic, “Your source for cut­ting edge music”, is a site where inde­pen­dent, under­ground musi­cians are fea­tured, with loads of free MP3 down­loads. There is so much good stuff here I can­not believe it, and I have become fans of many new bands and musi­cians because of this site.

We returned from a jovial week­end at the In-Laws yes­ter­day. Fun in the pool, warm bel­lies at a good Indian restau­rant, and relax­ation in front of the big-screen TV were enjoyed by much of the clan. Gray had a ball with all the atten­tion and new peo­ple to show him around the place.

The next stop on our sum­mer vaca­tion tour will be Louisville in July, then a week at the beach in August.

We are try­ing to get all the trav­el­ing in before the next kiddo pops out. Still no news on the gender.

Oh, have you seen Revenge of the Sith? What did you think?

I have seen it twice now, and have def­i­nitely decided it is the best of all 6 films. My favorite line, spo­ken by Padme Amidala:

“So this is how lib­erty dies…with thun­der­ous applause”.

I just slapped up two new photo gal­leries for ya.

One gallery is of nice hi-res images from my Olym­pus digi­cam, while the other gallery is a low-fi set of pics from my cell phone cam­era.

Both gal­leries are from the April and June months of this fine year (that would be 2005 for those of you count­ing). They do cover two sets of grand­par­ents vis­itng Gray for his birth­day and a whole lot more.

I went to Barley’s with a bunch of folks from work tonight. It was fun, and you shoulda been there.

My niece, Scar­let, show­ing us how she really feels.

It’s been a very busy cou­ple of weeks around here. Work has been full-on, both the day job and the moon­light­ing. I just posted a rough draft of the new web site for NCMAMA, the North Car­olina Moun­tain Acoustic Music Asso­ci­a­tion. I am glad to be work­ing with these fine folks again, and am excited to be a part of the preser­va­tion of the moun­tain music and culture.

I have a rough draft of a site for a fine gui­tar player up too. Check out PaulPieper.com. So far it’s not much more than a Pho­to­shop lay­out, but I am cur­rently work­ing on XHTML-izing and CSS-ifying it. There will be CD’s for sale, a dynamic cal­en­dar, and more once all is said and done.

Other than that, we are excited about find­ing out what sex our next prodigy will be in a cou­ple of weeks. I need to buy the domain name and get the site for him/her started ASAP

Da Da Da.