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Anyone out there good with html/css and can figure out why this site is working fine with the new theme in firefox but if you view it in IE, all the links on the sidebars are HUGE and the body text is all bold? I can’t figure out for the life of me why this is happening and its driving me crazy! I will try and come up with a reward for the person who can solve the problem.

UPDATE: All is well now thanks to the genius of Joanne! Her greater HTML/CSS skills figured out the shortcoming of IE and what I had to add in order to make it behave correctly. Thanks Joanne!

I would just like to take this time to wish all of my loyal readers a happy new year. 2007 seemed to fly by really fast and truth be told overall for me it was a pretty crappy year. Sure I made some new friends and shot a lot of cool shows but I also had my relationship end very badly and there are things in my life I’m just not very happy with. Here’s hoping 2008 will be a much better year for everyone and myself as well.

Do I have any new year’s resolutions? Yes I do. For this site I want to make it even better and also bring back the “selections from the punk vault” on a more regular basis, and in my personal life I would like to “figure it all out” so all the aspects of it make me happy, not just the going to shows with a camera in my hand part (though that is something I’d like to do even more of this year!). I would also like to put out another record this year.

Now if it would only stop snowing and warm up outside, this year could really get off to a good start!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Today is historically my favorite meal of the year. I know the holiday isn’t really supposed to be about eating and to look back at what you are thankful for or something like that. I can tell you that one thing I am thankful for besides all of the people who frequent this site is that I’m thankful that I have a lot of really great friends and I hope they know just how much I appreciate them.

Look for the start of my three days of Riot Fest photos and stories starting tomorrow. Until then I hope you all are resting up with full bellies.

I was asked the other day if I would be interested in shooing some photos of Juliette and the Licks for Spin Magazine’s website feature called, “It Happened Last Night”. I was pretty flattered to have been asked and I certainly needed to get out and keep myself busy. Not to mention I wanted a good trial run of my brand new camera body, the Canon EOS 5D which I am already in love with only having owned it for five days.

You can see the results here. I will have my own story about the show along with plenty more pictures of both Juliette and the Licks and Chris Cornell probably tomorrow when I’m doing working on all the photos.

It was revealed to me by a friend who was considering buying one that the iPhone has one major flaw in it. What is that flaw you ask?

Apparently you can’t use your mp3s as ringtones! That’s right, your 600 dollar fancy mp3 player/cell phone hybrid with all its touch screen glory and fancy gimmicks has a feature you’d think would be a no-brainer crippled! Any purchased music, or music you rip and put on your iPhone can’t be assigned as a ringtone. I find that beyond retarded. I guess the theory behind it is the cell phone provider doesn’t want to lose out on the revenue they have by selling you their overpriced, shitty ringtones. It’s bad enough they are charging you 600 bucks for this gadget, plus the seemingly pricey service plans they offer for the internet and calls, but now they require you to open up your wallet again if you want some custom ringtones, and of course you’re limited to their lame offerings. To me that is just insulting.

I’ll be sticking with my 80 dollar Razr phone, which does allow me to use my own mp3 files as ringtones without it costing me one extra cent to make that happen.

For those of you not in the midwest, specifically IL, you may not know about the Cicada, or the 17 year locust. This is the year they return and over the weekend seemingly out of nowhere, my back yard was filled with them. I was out in the backyard yesterday preparing for my annual Memorial Day BBQ at Combustion Manor and decided to snap a few pix of the little invaders. They pretty much were all over the trees in the back and one of them even took flight and landed on Lady MXV’s leg.

Every time I see their wings in detail, it reminds me of the logo for the band, The Locust.

In other news, sorry for the lack of new content on here, I’ve been busy with things of a personal nature and haven’t had much motivation to write. I will be photographing Skinny Puppy this Friday which is a huge deal for me seeing as how they are my favorite band in the entire known universe. I wish they didn’t have that silly three song restriction for photographing at the House of Blues, but I’ll take what I can get! I read the spoilers as to what the set list is for this tour and there is a couple songs I’m really excited to hear them do live. I was so excited about this upcoming photography opportunity, I went out and got two new lenses for my camera. I got the Canon f/1.8 18mm fish-eye lens and the Canon f/1.4 50mm lens. The latter renders my need for the “nifty 50″ f/1.8 50mm lens obsolete so I’m going to offer it up for sale or put it on ebay to help finance a new speedlite.

For those that want to see the rest of my Cicada pictures, they are on my flickr site.