Posted On Wednesday, May 29th, 2002 By David Veatch
Last night was a very interesting night at the Pool Room. After my daily dose of Buffy, I couldn’t shake the need to get a similar dose of pool. When I arrived at the Pool Room, it was fully with the intention of spending the night putting balls into pockets and drinking Rum & Cokes. Instead, I got an entirely different treat. As I was looking around for someone I knew, the action at the far 9′ caught my eye. They guy up at bat had a confidence to his stroke that I don’t often see down there. So I sat down, intending to watch for a few minutes. Both players were very good. They were playing 9-ball, and were keeping track of who was ahead with quarters at the diamonds. I couldn’t say for sure, but I got the distinct impression that this was a Serious Game. Frankly, I was just happy to watch a couple guys who knew their way around the table… sometimes, it’s better to sit and observe, rather than try and do, and they were quite a pair to observe. Very very few balls were missed, and both had great command of the cue ball. more »
Posted On Thursday, May 23rd, 2002 By David Veatch
Last night was a very interesting night at the table. Started out at my bud’s house as I usually do every Monday and Wednesday night. We played some Equal Offense to start off with, got tired of it and switched to Straight Pool, my game of choice anywhere, any time. I found a very cool little Straight Pool scoring app for the PalmOS that I wanted to try out. The interesting thing though, is that on the one hand, I nearly matched my all time high run of 17 with a night high of 15, while on the other hand I had three fouls in a row. In Straight Pool, three fouls in a row is a Bad Thing, costing the player (in this case, me) 18 points (one point per foul, plus 15 for going three in a row). I came back to win the match, but it was hard getting over that triple foul, mentally speaking. Around 11:30 or so, I left his house and hit the local pool hall (appropriately called The Pool Room) and played on the 50 cent 8-ball tables against some regular locals. Once I hit those 8-ball tables, my playing got much more more »
Posted On Wednesday, May 22nd, 2002 By David Veatch
You may remember me mentioning something about wanting to put together a CD with some grooves to play, while I’m busy playing pool. I’ve finished the first draft. Bear in mind that I’ve drawn from a somewhat limited CD collection, so several artists are repeated, repeatedly. That said, the track list goes something like this… ZZ Top – Jesus Just Left Chicago Jonny Lang – Lie To Me Kenny Wayne Shepherd – (Let Me Up) I’ve Had Enough Colin James – Just Came Back Jonny Lang – Rack ‘Em Up Creed – One Jonny Lang – Still Rainin’ Ian Moore – Muddy Jesus Kenny Wayne Shepherd – One Foot On The Path Jonny Lang – The Levee Big Head Todd And The Monsters – Broken Hearted Savior Jonny Lang – There’s Gotta Be A Change Colin James – T for Trouble Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Was Ian Moore – Ain’t Feeling No Pain Kenny Wayne Shepherd – What’s Goin’ Down Jonny Lang – Before You Hit The Ground Stevie Ray Vaughan – The Sky Is Crying Jimi Hendrix – Red House Omar just sent me a CD with his own choice of choice "ear-candy for when prowling the perimeter of more »
Posted On Thursday, May 16th, 2002 By David Veatch
I’m putting together a CD full of guitar-driven, dirty blues. Everything from ZZ-Top’s "Jesus Just Left Chicago" to Colin James’ "Just Came Back". I’m having a hard time of it though. There are SO MANY songs that I want to include, so many that deserve a place, but as anyone experienced (even a little) with building music compilations, there’s only so much room to work with, be it on DAT, tape, or CD. Now, a player that would just play the raw .mp3′s would be ideal, but most CD and DVD players will only play music via audio disc or DVD. So I’m limited to about 80 minutes on a 700MB disc. The impetus for this is have some music to listen to while playing pool at my bud’s house. When the idea came to mind to *make* a CD, the only choice was, of course, the aforementioned "guitar-drive, dirty blues." No other music is as perfectly "Pool" as blues. While that is, of course, my own opinion, I’m going to go ahead and present it here as fact. Just so you know. Now, the problem is finding those songs that most perfectly embody "Pool" to me. The idea being more »