1. The first picture is one of me rocking out to Jonathan Richman's "Don't Let our Youth Go to Waste" a la Galaxie 500 style. My friend Andrew is at this point rocking out on the drums, but he didn't make it into the picture. Picture by Nathan Thomas

2. Picture with digital camera the first day I started working on this page at Vandy.

3. Picture of me with Les Paul at his 81st birthday party at the Iridium Room, NYC. No, I don't know him. It was just dumb luck that I got to meet him that way. I was just supposed to go see him play that monday, but they rescheduled his birthday party. The person who takes reservations never called me back to cancel and they had to let me in. Had I not met les, I surely would have never gotten into the playing space, which is in the basement of the Iridium Room (across the street from Lincoln Center). If you ever get a chance to go into this place, do. It looks like the inside of a Dr. Seuss book.