Trapped In Time is the tumblelog of Matt Simpson. Matt is the co-owner of Maven Web Solutions. His business partner is Eugene. They also blog live music with Todd at The Butter Room.

Designer. Technologist. Traveler. Phishhead. Photographer. Hoosier. Chicagoan.

Matt Suggests: Annicka, Autumn, Chris, Deep, Deepti, Drew, Elle, Josh, Irick, Katrina, Kaylie, Michael, Mills, Nikki, Sara, Sauter, Sharon, and Terz, amongst others.

04
Jul
2009
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Former Titans quarterback Steve McNair has been killed. Police said McNair suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head in downtown Nashville.

The incident happened near 2nd South & Lea Ave. Police said it looked like a double homicide. A female victim was also found dead.

Horrible news.

03
Jul
2009
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Impromptu Rothbury Trip?
Didn’t think I was gonna go, but looks like a free wristband may be waiting there for me. I don’t think I can avoid live music even when I try.  Now I just need to find my 3D shades
03
Jul
2009
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(via brooklynmutt:thegreg:soupsoup)
(Almost) Independence Day Miracle!!!  Good riddance you dumb broad!

(via brooklynmutt:thegreg:soupsoup)

(Almost) Independence Day Miracle!!!  Good riddance you dumb broad!

03
Jul
2009
LINK

thebutterroom:

The Rothbury Webcast will kick off at 2:45 EDT with King Sunny Aide up first and much more coming over the course of the weekend.  If you aren’t headed up to Michigan to celebrate independence with great music, this is the next best thing!

5:00pm · Keller Williams
6:30pm · Damian Marley and NAS
8:00pm · Brett Dennen
8:45pm · The String Cheese Incident
12:30am · The Disco Biscuits

Pretty sweet feed, awesome quality.  Watching Keller Williams right now!

01
Jul
2009
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thebutterroom:
A view of The Butter Room
Just got a call from Tood… In The Butter Room (the real one)

thebutterroom:

A view of The Butter Room

Just got a call from Tood… In The Butter Room (the real one)

01
Jul
2009
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This is Sadie.  She’s 11 years old and has survived cancer.  I can remember 8 years ago when she was Forbin’s age.  We’d come back from runs and she’d lick the sweat off me until I made her stop (and then she’d try to lick it off some more). She still gets around great, and reminds me of my dog in a lot of ways. Sadie’s probably the first small dog that I ever really found myself attached to, so it was great to see her full of vigor and life last night… and still licking.
This is Sadie.  She’s 11 years old and has survived cancer.  I can remember 8 years ago when she was Forbin’s age.  We’d come back from runs and she’d lick the sweat off me until I made her stop (and then she’d try to lick it off some more). She still gets around great, and reminds me of my dog in a lot of ways. Sadie’s probably the first small dog that I ever really found myself attached to, so it was great to see her full of vigor and life last night… and still licking.
Tags:  dogs
01
Jul
2009
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Yesterday I visited my good friend Mike and his wife Nora.  Mike was my high school geography teacher, track coach, and training partner when I was a serious runner back in the day.  He’s also one of the nicest and most genuine guys I know, an avid music fan and traveler (saw 33 Dead shows between ‘89 and ‘94).
This is the view from Mike and Nora’s beach front house that they’re currently renting. It’s a million dollar beach cottage with a guest house, and just a beautiful work of architecture.  However, with a baby due in October, they’ll likely be moving into one of the other properties they own.  At a cool $1,000 a month (utilities included), situation right on Lake Michigan, I could get used to this view and the floor to ceiling glass windows. I could also get used to having bonfires on the beach below, and taking runs through the nearby trails where Mike and I did a lot of training in 2001-2003.
I never thought I’d consider moving out of the city, but I now have something to mull over during the next year.  This is pretty much my dream house (all glass windows, a screened in back porch that looks into the forest, a gas fireplace, rooftop access for a full grilling and patio setup (with this same view), and a retro-fitted kitchen.  It’s only five minutes from the Southshore line into the city.

Yesterday I visited my good friend Mike and his wife Nora.  Mike was my high school geography teacher, track coach, and training partner when I was a serious runner back in the day.  He’s also one of the nicest and most genuine guys I know, an avid music fan and traveler (saw 33 Dead shows between ‘89 and ‘94).

This is the view from Mike and Nora’s beach front house that they’re currently renting. It’s a million dollar beach cottage with a guest house, and just a beautiful work of architecture.  However, with a baby due in October, they’ll likely be moving into one of the other properties they own.  At a cool $1,000 a month (utilities included), situation right on Lake Michigan, I could get used to this view and the floor to ceiling glass windows. I could also get used to having bonfires on the beach below, and taking runs through the nearby trails where Mike and I did a lot of training in 2001-2003.

I never thought I’d consider moving out of the city, but I now have something to mull over during the next year.  This is pretty much my dream house (all glass windows, a screened in back porch that looks into the forest, a gas fireplace, rooftop access for a full grilling and patio setup (with this same view), and a retro-fitted kitchen.  It’s only five minutes from the Southshore line into the city.

30
Jun
2009
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And the gene pool becomes a little less polluted with potentially retarded procreators
29
Jun
2009
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Grateful Dead - “Death Don’t Have No Mercy”

Seems like death has just been at the forefront of things lately, whether it be the personal death of our family dog or the growing number of celebrity deaths, or the senseless death of one of the nation’s top high school football coaches. Death certainly doesn’t have any mercy.

29
Jun
2009
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I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn’t know who I was—I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I’d never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn’t know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn’t scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost. I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.

“Cheap Hotel Room,” On The Road

I never knew when I was fifteen and first reading this book what an impact it would have on my outlook on life or how it would lead me to take to the road for thousands upon thousands of miles of driving across this beautiful country.

As for this quote and the section of the book it relates to? There’s a lot of truth in it. After you’ve been on the road long enough, home becomes relative, and in a way who you are all becomes relative.

Not so much that you’re someone else, but all your interactions occur on this level in which you’re always introducing yourself, always interacting in a way that differs so greatly from how you would interact daily with those that know you and have known you for some time.

29
Jun
2009
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Let Me Ride - Yesterday’s rainbow over Brookyln (via 13thWitness)
Let Me Ride - Yesterday’s rainbow over Brookyln (via 13thWitness)
28
Jun
2009
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The type of fame that Elvis had, and that I think Michael Jackson has, the pressure of it, and the isolation that it seems to require, has gotta be really painful. I wasn’t gonna let that happen to me. I wasn’t gonna get to a place where I said, ‘I can’t go in here. I can’t go to this bar. I can’t go outside.’… I believe that the life of a rock ‘n’ roll band will last as long as you look down into the audience and can see yourself, and your audience looks up at you and can see themselves—and as long as those reflections are human, realistic ones. The biggest gift that your fans can give you is just treatin’ you like a human being, because anything else dehumanizes you. And that’s one of the things that has shortened the life spans, both physically and creatively, of some of the best rock ‘n’ roll musicians—that cruel isolation. If the price of fame is that you have to be isolated from the people you write for, then that’s too fuckin’ high a price to pay.
Bruce Springsteen on Michael Jackson and dealing with the pressures of celebrity and fame.
28
Jun
2009
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Still don’t know if I’m headed to Rothbury next weekend, but last year was definitely the best music festival I’ve been to.  How can you beat hammocks in the forest?
Still don’t know if I’m headed to Rothbury next weekend, but last year was definitely the best music festival I’ve been to.  How can you beat hammocks in the forest?
28
Jun
2009
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This might be my favorite pic that I snapped during the first leg of summer tour. It really captures the essence of this band I love so much. You can see the connection between the four of them, the concentration as Page looks across and Trey looks down at his guitar, Mike cracking the slightest of Mike smiles, and Fish in the corner peering over his kit, holding it all together.  What a fun few weeks we had out there on the road thanks to these four guys!
This might be my favorite pic that I snapped during the first leg of summer tour. It really captures the essence of this band I love so much. You can see the connection between the four of them, the concentration as Page looks across and Trey looks down at his guitar, Mike cracking the slightest of Mike smiles, and Fish in the corner peering over his kit, holding it all together.  What a fun few weeks we had out there on the road thanks to these four guys!
28
Jun
2009
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