The latest from The Axel Vault

busy busy me

2 March 2010 | 7:18 pm by kristeraxel

I am doing a lot of things right now. Life is awesome. A new job, a few album projects in the works, and the summer en route. We are just moving right along.

I am also approaching my 1 year anniversary and I just have to say that I love my beautiful wife a little more each day.

I would like to wish good fortune and good health upon everyone in the world.

since when are passports this cool

18 February 2010 | 8:25 pm by kristeraxel

I just got a new passport and was pleasantly surprised by how great it looks. I'd like to think this was an Obama administration move and if it is, I think that is very admirable.

Jackson Browne kicks ass

13 February 2010 | 11:48 pm by kristeraxel

Last night a great thing happened, Joel Eckels put together an amazing benefit for Haiti relief. I think about 30 songwriters performed and the quality of artist was truly outstanding. I was honored to play two songs - the first was "Celebrate Tonight", linked here from my wedding:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW89kW5TX-w

and then both Mike Freas and Marlon Grace played with me on "I'm the Gun". When I got off stage, Jackson Browne gave me a compliment about my songs and I was stunned. I still am. Jackson played a really great song called "All Good Things Come To An End" and that was one of the best nights of my life.

Room 5 next week

28 January 2010 | 11:56 am by kristeraxel

Hey, I'm doing my first show in FOREVER at Room 5 on Feb 12th (next Friday). You should come because it's a benefit for Haiti relief and I will play at least one new song.

http://room5lounge.com/
323.938.2504

Krister Axel performs at Room 5.

Friday, Feb. 12

I don't know exactly when I'm playing because lots of people are going to be there to perform but if you want you can call them day-of-show and ask. Either that or just show up at 9pm and get a few hours of awesome.

map link

prehistoric beer

21 January 2010 | 5:34 pm by kristeraxel

Lacking any knowledge of chemistry, prehistoric humans eager for the intoxicating effects of alcohol apparently mixed clumps of rice with saliva in their mouths to break down the starches in the grain and convert them into malt sugar.

These pioneering brewers would then spit the chewed up rice into their brew. Husks and yeasty foam floated on top of the liquid, so they used long straws to drink from narrow necked jugs. Alcohol is still consumed this way in some regions of China.

from: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,668642,00.html

jesus rifles

20 January 2010 | 9:30 pm by kristeraxel

Say it isn't so! Crusades, anyone?

from: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/us-military-weapons-inscribed-secret-jesus...

quoted:

The maker of the sights, Trijicon, has a $660 million multi-year contract to provide up to 800,000 sights to the Marine Corps, and additional contracts to provide sights to the U.S. Army.

John 8:12, referred to on the gun sights as JN8:12, reads, "Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

Trijicon confirmed to ABCNews.com that it adds the biblical codes to the sights sold to the U.S. military.

a funny little blog post comment not written by me

12 January 2010 | 2:43 pm by kristeraxel

Posted by: dsf3g | 05/18/09 | 5:44 am

Back in the 7th grade for a time my friends and I got into Dungeons and Dragons. Our DM made the mistake of thinking that it could be cool to give us a magic book that contained all the spells of all levels that we could read and cast at any time. I admit, it was kinda fun, since we basically became invincible. But it became a huge headache for the DM since we could disintegrate anything he threw at us, and he eventually found a way of taking it away from us. Sigh.