Overlooked Hybrid Tax break January 17, 2007
Posted by onemouthband in : Hybrid Cars, Recommendations , add a commentI ran across this tip from H&R Block. I wish I knew about it last year!
Hybrid vehicles do not qualify for the electric vehicle credit. That is because they are not powered primarily by electric motors. So what kind of tax break is available? This type of car may be eligible for a clean-fuel deduction.
Generally, the deduction is limited to the cost of the electric components of the automobile. The taxpayer must be the original owner of the car and the car must be intended for his or her own personal or business use (not for resale). The maximum deduction for a passenger vehicle weighing 10,000 pounds or less is $2,000 for tax years 2004 and 2005, $500 for tax year 2006 and $0 after.
Currently, the deduction is available for the Toyota Prius, Honda Insight, Honda Civic Hybrid, Honda Accord Hybrid and Ford Escape Hybrid for the 2005 model year.
Do you know me? January 12, 2007
Posted by onemouthband in : Randomnimity , add a commentI’m taking the opportunity of my changing computers to go through every contact I have for everybody everywhere and decide if I’m keeping it and where. How many phone numbers do I have that are no longer valid? How many emails have been abandoned? Homes vacated?
If you do know me and suspect my contact info for you is inaccurate, please drop me and note to say so at onemouthband@gmail.com. Thanks!
The Irrationals in studio and ensuing reflections January 7, 2007
Posted by onemouthband in : Music, Notes to Self, The Irrationals , add a commentI’ve had the great pleasure of singing with The Irrationals for a few years now. Yesterday we finally made it to a real recording studio to lay down a few tracks for our upcoming CD, the second for the group. We started “Done Waiting”, the title track written and led by yours truly. I for one am happy to be done waiting for this project to begin! Links to mp3s of our mixes will be available here in the future.
After spending a lot of time at the old Russian Hill Recording in San Francisco as a kid where my Stepmom worked and my Dad was often doing sessions, then hanging out at The Plant in Sausalito when my Dad recorded there, recording there myself a few times, practically living in the studio for the two years I went to Phil Mattson’s music school in Iowa, too many late nights spent on recording/audio production projects in Waldorf Studio at Sonoma State University, being the one-man-office for Gary Remal Malkin’s professional home studio and commercial music production business, and the dozen or so projects I’ve been a part of at other recording studios, it felt very much like home when I walked into Joe Weed’s Highland Studios yesterday. It’s funny to me that after being so bored out of my skull in studios before, I actually enjoy them now. Perhaps I wasn’t old enough to appreciate it then, or maybe shutting me into a drum booth with crayons and a coloring book for mixdown when I was six had about the same effect as force-feeding me vegetables: I hated them for a while but slowly grow to enjoy them!
2007 West Coast Beatbox Battle this Friday January 2, 2007
Posted by onemouthband in : Music, One Mouth Band , add a commentThis Friday, I’ll be competing for the second time at a Beatbox Battle. Come cheer on your favorite One Mouth Band!
