So this site is pretty much kaput. I ventured over to Tumblr for a while, but much like my Flickr account, all that site does now is grab my feed of Instagram photos. I am still kicking it on Twitter & Instagram though. My friend Paul did me a solid and whipped up leegilmore.com for me. I’m using that as a main hub with links to all my different online personas. That’s about it. See you on the flip side.

I haven’t been here in a year. I spent the last ten minutes just trying to remember the password to this site until my friend Paul helped me out. Paul as it turns out actually built this great site for me and for that I’m thankful. While I no longer hang out in this area as much as I should, I did start a Tumblr blog a few months ago. You can follow me there.

This was my second year to go to Comic Con at the San Diego Convention Center. It was just as fun as last years if not more. Lots of crazy costumes, crazy booths, etc. High fives all around. You can check out photos of the day here.

I’ve been missing in action from this blog for seven months or so, sorry about that. Here a slew of new/old photos I’ve recently been able to post to Flickr.

Terminator Salvation finally wrapped. It was a long, rough schedule, but a complete blast to work on. I took some photos from the final days of the mix that you can check out here.

I was able to go to the E3 Expo again this year which was nice since it’s been virtually non-existent the past few years. It was a good time, but lacked the oomph of 3-4 years ago. You can view photos of the day here.

Memorial Day BBQ over at Hutch and Jesse’s. You can view the day here.

Shell, Molly, and I were able to fly to St.Louis to surprise my dad for his 60th birthday. It was a big success. His folks and sister also came up from Mississippi. You can view a few selects photos here.

Shell and I got a day to ourselves and went to the St. Louis Art Museum. Photos here.

For as many years as I lived in STL I never made it to the Arch. Finally did that here.

Finally, my folks took us to the STL Zoo for the day. Always a rad time. Photos of the zoo here.

Been a while since I updated, so here’s a big one for you.

First up, I put together a new mix. It’s called “Open Fields” and is sort of inspired by the Fall. It’s not a very long mix, but is nice and chill and has been good background music on my walks to work each morning. You can download it here.

Fashion Dave & Meg got married. Awesome couple and awesome night. FD is one of my oldest friends and it was just really rad to see him get hitched. On a side note, I did a video installation that played throughout the reception and that turned out really well. I will try and get that up online sometime soon. You can view photos of the night here.

We took Molly to her first “harvest festival”. It was at Underwood Farms in Moorpark and was a lot cooler than I thought it’d be. More pumpkins than I’ve ever seen and they had an antique tractor show. You can view photos of the day here.

Molly turned ONE, which is sorta hard for me to wrap my head around. We had a big party for her at Weddington park. She had more people show up than I do for my birthdays and she’s only been doing this one year. Both sets of grandparents came into town and it was a great afternoon. Photos of the day over here.

DJ Lance Rock and Yo Gabba Gabba did a show at Amoeba Records in Hollywood. We were guessing probably 500 people showed up which was nuts. Kids loosing their minds for Plex and Co. It was probably one of my top Molly memories so far. You can view photos here.

Fashion Dave’s bachelor party was last night and was a totally great evening. We had dinner at the rustic Saddle Peak Lodge. I had Elk for the first time and it might be my new favorite food. You can view photos of the dinner here.

Also two weekends ago I got to visit one of my best pals, Banker Jeff, in Nashville. Jeff and I visit a different NFL stadium each year and this season it was time for the Titans. I hadn’t been back to Nashville since leaving college so it was a wild, memory flooding trip. Got to see some old haunts as well as visit what’s left of Johnny Cash’s home. You can view photos of the trip here.

Jerry Reed died yesterday. He was 71. In terms of music, it seems most people have certain artists or bands they can attach to different time periods in their lives. I may have had a few musical chapters through my years (Johnny Cash, The Velvet Underground, Boards of Canada), but I’ve only had two legitimate novels. Artists that slam you in the face and literally alter your life. My entire college experience/time in Nashville was about Morrissey. My post-college/coming into your own years/Los Angeles time was about Jerry Reed.

In December of ‘02 I bought my first Jerry Reed CD, Country Legends, on a whim at a mom and pop country music store hidden in an outlet mall in a snowed over Wentzville, MO. I knew “East Bound And Down” from being a huge fan of Smokey and the Bandit, but that was about it. I was instantly hooked and bought up everything I could find of his soon after. The following summer I actually got to see him play on one of his last tours. It was at the Warren County Fair out in the sticks of St.Louis. It was July4th and the hottest day I think I’ve ever experienced. I remember the concert, while being lots of fun, was also a little sad for the fact that Jerry’s audience consisted only of 40 sunburnt people sitting on hay bails. None of whom seemed entirely interested. None of whom had flown from LA just for that show. Before and after the show I sat on those hay bails talking to my dad about how utterly pathetic my love life was not knowing that within five days I’d meet my wife.

I have often thought about what it is that makes me connect with Jerry Reed’s music so much. How did I get so easily obsessed over some goofy 70’s country icon that picked a mean guitar and wrote just as many bad songs as good ones? The best I can come up with is that he simply reminds me of the South and I discovered him during a time when I was trading the South in for the West Coast. While moving West has been the best thing to ever happen to me, the place where my brain, goals, ambition, friends and career lives, I will always feel like my heart, my family, my heritage and upbringing will always remain in the South. I suppose it’s that part of you you can’t ever fully go back to, even if you moved there. It’s a state of mind more than a street address and a yard full of pine needles. For me, the “idea” of the South is a very peaceful and safe one that is highly valued in the hectic world I live in. Nothing transports me faster to that place than listening to Jerry’s voice. I know I cling to his songs so strongly, not necessarily because they’re the best ever written, but because it’s the musical, almost tangible, expression of my upbringing and that “Southern” ideal. The same reason I flock to deer and tractor paraphernalia when taste clearly begs me not to.

So that’s all I have to say. I’m glad I got to see him play once. I’m glad Jeremy Davis did a painting of him for me last year. I’m glad his music will still be around every time my brain needs a break.

Here is one my favorite songs of his that you can download: “The Likes of Me”

And here is one my favorite Youtube videos of his…

It’s no secret that The Road Warrior is my favorite movie of all time. It’s also no secret that Tyler Stout is one of my favorite artists. So I got a surprise ticket to high five city this morning when I discovered Tyler had created a poster of my favorite flick. I already own his take on The Thing and Big Trouble In Little China. This new one might be my favorite though. Again, check out Tyler’s site if you’ve never been.