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About Me

30 on March 8th. Husband. Dad. Sk8er. Tall. Raise my beautiful baby. Brew beer. Drink homebrew. Cook food. Drummer. Drum teacher. My drum site www.teddrums.com and my homebrew blog www.tedbrews.com

My Interests

Some are: Playing drums. Playing with my beautiful daughter. Playing chess. Riding my new bianchi cyclo-cross. Cross country bicycle touring. Buying used furniture. Painting walls. Brewing coffee. Drinking coffee. Brewing kick-ass beer. Drinking kick-ass beer. Raising a loving family. Watercolor. Changing my habitual ways of thinking and acting. Physical rehab. Pondering on potential. Home repair.

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to get in better contact with some friends. I'll try my best. As of now...I am posting blogs about current stuff.

Music:

Just about any style of authentic and creative music is pleasing to my ear: Ed Blackwell. The Eternals. Trenchmouth. Ian Moore. The Scientist. Lungfish. Max Roach. Sufjan Stevens. Damien Jurado. Dennison Witmer. Watchers. Fugazi. Tony Williams. Living Color. Helmet. John Niekrasz. Euphone. Bob Dylan. Johnny Cash. Tim Lowly. (Since I am a drummer, I have a large tendency to key into that instrument and the person who plays them.) more later...

Movies:

I think these movies are good in-of-themselves:Bruce Lee: The Man & The Myth. School of Rock. Searching for Animal Chin...The Bones Brigade. Fight Club. Iron Monkey. Dogtown Z-Boys. Afropunk. Zoolander.I need to see more funny movies...any suggestions?more later...

Television:

Don't care for it much. Too many damn commercials.

Books:

Can't say that I read all that much. Never got into it as a kid, and can't seem to get myself to do it now. But...I would say Siddhartha. On the Road. Fools Crow. more later...

Heroes:

Grand Master Steve Abbatte, Little Cobra, Shadow Fist & the rest of Cobra Kai's black sash students. Eb Blackwell. Bozo the clown. maybe some more later...

My Blog

Online Homebrewing Journal

Making home brewed beer has been a hobbie of mine for around five years now. The past two years have been pretty aggressive, and there's no sight of slowing down for at least a couple more. Since...
Posted by Ted on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:28:00 PST

Martians...

Intelligent little creatures, dressed in powerful tall metallic costumes of death. Their dominant prescence with Heat-Rays and swift movement present inevitable and unescapable doom and destructi...
Posted by Ted on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 07:14:00 PST

The past three homebrews and into the future

I guess I may get around to finishing the last blog post...about all the San Francisco microbrews. But for now... I will mention that I just finished bottling a 2 gallon test...called Honey Toasted Re...
Posted by Ted on Thu, 25 May 2006 01:18:00 PST

San Francisco

I'm gonna keep updating this blog as I try new microbrews/west-coast beers in and around SanFran. I'm on a mission to find beer that is "smoked" or that uses a good amount of toasted grains....
Posted by Ted on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 05:18:00 PST

Performing Soon

Very recently I've had music practice with a new friend. Tim is our pastor's husband, who teaches fine art, makes very fine art and writes music. He asked me to play with him and a couple ot...
Posted by Ted on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 07:41:00 PST

Home Ownership

Well I do now. Sarah and I love our new/old condo. It needs work and decorating, and so far we've been doing it and saving lots of money. Craigslist has provided us with many good buys. Today I'm gonn...
Posted by Ted on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 06:51:00 PST

Wonder if this myspace will be any different...

After signing on to Friendster with a whole bunch of friends, we didn't use it all that much. Or, at least, know one contacted me through it, nor I didn't contact anybody. I wonder if this Myspac...
Posted by Ted on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:07:00 PST