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About Me

I live in Chicago now, I used to live in Colorado, but before that I lived in Ohio, and even before that I was born in New York. I now have a wife (Lisa), and 2 cats (Walter, the boy and Joanna, the princess). I have a band, (we are Majors Junction - I play the drums) and I have a mortgage and pay taxes. I own a sound and production company here in Chicago called: Audible Sound Productions. I like to drink lots of water, and walk on the beaches of Lake Michigan. I root for the Cubs, as well as the N.Y. Yankees. I have family in California and Florida, as well as New York and Missouri. I have over 100 house plants, and over 240 gig's of music on my computer. Breathe in, breathe out....and always follow the path of least resistance!

My Interests

Sleeping, Eating, Playing music, listening to music, Camping, Hiking in the woods, Walking in the city, People watching, Surfing (I've been once!), Yoga, Meditation & doing live sound...it's a good thing when you can do what you love for a living... talking with friends over a beer...

I'd like to meet:

Africa

Music:

Only the good kind...metal, hip-hop, classical, jazz, rock, jam-band, funk, country, bluegrass, etc, etc, etc... Best Live Band of 2007 - Cornmeal, The Hue Favorite Album of 2007 - Wilco 'Sky Blue Sky'

Movies:

The Life Aquatic, Dumb and Dumber, The Jerk, Bottle Rockets, Do The Right Thing, Eternal Sunshine, Reservoir Dogs, Lost Highway, Triplets Of Belleville, Twin Peaks, Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Schindlers List, The Straight Story, Brewsters Millions, Contact, Castaway, Shawshank Redemption, Baron Munchausen, Blue Velvet, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, American Splendor, Erin Brockovich, Waking Life, Science of Sleep, The Simpsons, Pans Labrynth, No Country for Old Men, all and any Documentaries...

Television:

The Office, Arrested Development, The Sarah Silverman Program, Cubs & Yankees (Baseball in general), NOVA, Mad Men, This Old House (Home Improvement Shows), and of course... the Simpsons

Books:

Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Douglas Adams, John Grisham, Richard Bach, Harpers Magazine, The Far Side, The Onion (Ok, not a book-but still funny as hell!), Dr. Suess Books, Murder Mysteries and Spy Novels. I would like to read 'War & Peace' before I die...

Heroes:

Phil Hartman, Jerry Garcia, Bob Marley, Woody Allen, Metallica, Fishman, Tom Dowd, Beck, Fred Pell, Dr. Suess, Dean & Gene Ween, Stewart Copeland, Brian Abraham, Lynne Jordan

My Blog

Home

So here it is, the very last day of January. It has been a slow month (work-wise) to say the least! BUT! This is a good thing. I get to sleep a lot...get some reading in and TV/Movie watching in, and ...
Posted by Colin Williams on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:09:00 PST

critics say...

So here we are, 2008! Another election year, another year older, another chance to grow the business. I am in a slow period right now...not many gigs in January, February...but the rest of the year sh...
Posted by Colin Williams on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:45:00 PST

Nov. 6, 2007

Well, here we are...another fall is upon is in the great city of Chicago. It's getting down into the 30's at night...40's during the day. The cats noses are cold and they sleep together a lot more! Al...
Posted by Colin Williams on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:00:00 PST

Sometimes you just have to go with it...

When everything seems to be so hard and all you seem to do is worry, a nice walk and a cold beer can cure those blues... It is May 2007 (end of May) I am in our 'new' condo (we bought the place in Nov...
Posted by Colin Williams on Wed, 30 May 2007 01:31:00 PST

Summer time & the living's easy!

It's now Tues. May 30th & summer came with a vengeance this past weekend! It was up well into the 90's and humid. Unseasonably warm, so maybe it will pass and get cool again before the real summer com...
Posted by Colin Williams on Tue, 30 May 2006 07:17:00 PST

The weekend is over!

Well here it is, Tuesday the 23rd of May. What a BUSY weekend I just had! Friday we (MJ) played at O'Briens out in the burbs of Batavia (FAR!!!) I got home at 3:30am, and got up at 8:30 am Sat. mornin...
Posted by Colin Williams on Tue, 23 May 2006 09:32:00 PST

TGIF (~:

Well, here it is. Friday the 19th. We (Majors Junction-MJ) are playing tonight in Botavia. It's a LONG haul to get there, but we get paid well and we've been doing it for 3 or 4 years now. I have to b...
Posted by Colin Williams on Fri, 19 May 2006 01:08:00 PST

Another Grey Day!

Well, I am a little hung over today...just really sluggish. It sucks 'cause I have a lot to do and I just can't motivate myself to get anything done! I guess I just need to start doing 1 thing at a ti...
Posted by Colin Williams on Thu, 18 May 2006 09:48:00 PST

Wet and cold Wednesday

Well as I sit here at my desk in Chicago, I've run out of work to do and decided to start a 'BLOG'. I guess this will be just a steam of consciessness type of BLOG, without borders or specific topics....
Posted by Colin Williams on Wed, 17 May 2006 12:19:00 PST