Monday night at Kulaks.  Daniel, Joe, Sherrie, Lisa, regulars and newbies, irregulars,dogs, frogs and stars.

Left handed guitars, harmonics, and duets.  Rick Taylor sings Lisa's song. Subjects like loss, the war, love, and humor.

You can see these great artists, pay as you go from Pay Pal, and be at home getting ready for taxes.

You can hear licks and harmonies and never mind the winter rains.

Check out Paul Kulak's Woodshed for live or on the web performances.

NAMM Educator's breakfast featured teachers to visionaries, administrators to policy makers.  One thing is sure the meeting was on track and on purpose.

It began with an eye on the prize- an eye ball showing a young trumpet player reflected in the eye of the beholder.

The vision :playing music in K-12 and getting all children involved!

From a welcoming address speaking to No Child Left Behind and School Standards to commentary by professionals, the teachers were welcomed with info, breakfast, goody bag, and touring map to find out how everyone could work together on behalf of music education and move forward in 2008.

Go NAMM!  It's easy to be a fan of such a dynamic vision for success at school and at play.  For more information, go to their website. 

CEA has released consumer electronics sales and forecasts 2003-2008. For engineers to entrepreneurs, it covers sales, forecasts, consumer research and economic trends. The nonmembers can purchase the study from $999.

Meanwhile Midem, Digital Music Forum East (Feb 26-27), Digital Hollywood (Oct 27-30), Billboard, Sandbox Summit members to phone companies are all convinced along with the banks that you will soon be able to show pictures, talk about bank accounts, watch videos, and collaborate with others as well as songwrite all on the go.

Words like "target", "platform" have migrated into the news. Web 2.0 has terrific resources and convenience for those who want to use it. CES has speaker docks from Vestalife's Butterfly to Sennheiser's MX-W1 stereo sound high end ear phones for wireless users who need integrated charging capacity to multi-country adaptors.

It's an international gear show starting today in Anaheim and a smaller, hand held world for video cameras to your music library. (HD radio is proprietary to iBiquity Digital Corp and working with NPR)

Got to www.ebrain.org to find it.   Watch from innovation from storage to ram, to strings to peripherals in Anaheim.  It will be great to see how these new speeds, stands, creativity, and functions impact players, sound engineering, and recording.

From Toshiba's doublezip backpack tradeshow press bag to e-bags, the jury is in on what is needed in order to review press kits or get in and out of a cab.

To use the Monorail and survive or to get through the screeners, we all need to pack well, light, and easily and have lots of pockets in case a screener or a friend needs something on route.

From pockets to pouches, from handles to straps, the medium is canvas bags, totes, and cool colors, options for payment abound and whether from Eagle Creek, Case Logic or Victorinox Swiss Army, luggage is now accessorized for the mobile, virtual and even "mommy-ed" .

Disney, Jansport, Kenneth Cole et all are giving you the mobile edge re: chic, suede skin or licensed.  Emerging designers are creating "smishable" handbags to "schleppers" and its now possible to have ipod covers to glasses cases that match. 

Writer on Diff'rent Strokes, Archie Bunker's Place, Webster, Two of a Kind and many other major shows, Fred Rubin took time out from scripts, tv, pilots, and made for television movies and spoke at Media Access at the Verdugo Job Center in Glendale.

Charming, prepared and generous, he presented "How to Pitch" as a UCLA Cinema and TV and Screenwriting Professor, a professional and a colleague. A yearly instructor at the Warner Brothers, Disney, Columbia College, Nickelodeon and WGA workshops, Fred answered questions, responded with aplumb and stressed doing your preparation for meetings, pitch sessions and even working with the receptionist.

Anecdotes were specific, practical and forwarding. A fun and informative session that can make all the difference despite the strike and beyond one's present circumstances. For more information, check out the website. MAO is an EDD special program and has offices in the SF Bay Area as well.

Workshop was made possible by the Friends of Californians with Disabilities, Inc. MAO in Glendale, 818-409-0448.