The social behavior of cats, my family, HOPE, listening to/playing music, reading/writing, cooking/eating good food, friends, good conversation, community, living a sustainable life, avoidance of pain, staring into space.
Music
Right now: Bobby Previte - Pan Atlantic; Hentai Improvising Orchestra - A Box of Hentai; Heldon - Stand By; Rich Hopkins and Billy Sedelmayr - The Fifty Percenter; Sun Kil Moon - "Duk Koo Kim." This year: Nels Cline - Coward; The Ox Magnolia/Bob Fante - Proud Now American; Neil Young - Archives; Chris Potter Underground - Ultrahang; The Rationals - Get Rational; Dennis Gonzalez Band of Sorcerers featuring Frank Lowe - Live in Washington, D.C., 10/07/89; Snowbyrd - Diosdado; Eaton Lake Tonics - Rancho Folly IV; Flaming Lips - Embryonic; Marty Ehrlich Rites Quartet - Things Have Got To Change; Bonedome - Thinktankubator.
How I Met Your Mother, Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog, Firefly, Anthony Bourdain, The Office (all courtesy of my middle dtr).
Books
This Week: "Miles, Ornette, Cecil: Jazz Beyond Jazz" by Howard Mandel. Inspirators: Josh Alan Friedman, Nik Cohn, Peter Guralnick, Tim O'Brien, Tobias Wolff.
Heroes
My wife, my kids, my parents, B.D. Trail, Al Huddleston, Alan Sprenger, Howlin' Wolf, John Coltrane, Ron Asheton, Joe Strummer, Neil Young, Charles Buxton (the man who brought me here).
About me: Ken Shimamoto has written about music for print publications including FW Weekly, Texas Music, The Big Takeover, Shindig (UK), Funhouse (Italy), and DFW Poetry Review, and online for I Love Fort Worth, The I-94 Bar, A History of Dallas Music, The First Church of Holy Rock and Roll, KNAC.com, Funtopia, the MC5 Gateway, and MC5 Japan. He published the first interview in 20 years with former Iggy & the Stooges guitarist James Williamson in 2001, and a lengthy excerpt from his history of Sonic's Rendezvous Band was included in the liner notes for the boxset released by Easy Action Records (UK) in 2006. He self-published "WRECK ROOM STORIES: True Tales From the Home of Rock 'n' Roll in Fort Worth As Told By the People Who Were There" (edition of 200) in 2007 and "HALTOM CITY NIGHTS: An Oral History; 20 Years of Friendship, Bad Behavior, and Rock ‘n’ Roll with the Haltom City-Riverside Crew" (edition of 20) in 2009. His "Young Republicans On Acid," an in-depth history of '60s Detroit psychedelic band SRC, was republished in "SHINDIG ANNUAL NO. 1" in 2009. (Kris Needs wrote in Record Collector, "Ken Shimamoto’s SRC is nothing less than Motor City heaven.") Ken blogs as The Stash Dauber, plays guitar in Stoogeaphilia and the Hentai Improvising Orchestra, has recorded with Top Secret and AwkQuarius, and is a member of the Asian Media Crew. He's married to Kat, has three children, five grandchildren, and two cats (because three is where the trouble always starts).
They cancelled me, bro, due to the weather. Sure wouldn't have minded playing inside, though. Oh well. Maybe I can drop by work and get them or youz can come out to Hip Pocket, Sunday night?
Good to see ya on the trail, man. Sorry I couldn't stop and shoot the shit - was already late for work. Come out to Fred's if y'all can, Thursday. Marty Christian's playing.
Hi Ken..we had a psychadelic film produced 4 the Big Screen @ Ridglea to run while we jam so hopefuly it turns out cool + Headlining is a great ft.Wth based Rock-a-Billy trio the Dan Family. Should be a good night if yer not playing or anything.thnks danny
