An Audio Sketchbook
The other day I was thinking about learning styles. I often think about learning styles, since my own personal learning style is less than conventional. I was in smart kid classes, and I did smart kid things. I was not a smart kid, but I was smart enough to know that I was not smart in the effortless polymath way that a lot of smart kids are smart. I was, and am, very jealous of that kind of…
Here's a sketch of something that could be a bigger something. It's always parts like this that I think are going to be like the key melodic feature of a song, but then I just bury it in four other guitar parts. Maybe I should get better at EQing. What a concept.
Whoa, look who's back with something rhythmic for once.
Well, it happened again. The automated job I have that deploys this site for the sole purpose of updating my Last.FM feed has been canceled because I haven't posted in a while. That's fine. It just means that I'll just have to say things more or less off the top of my head, which to be honest makes this seem closer to an actual journal than anything else. I mean, have you ever read the actual…
We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us. – Fr. John Culkin, SJ This is a post about the fact that I got an email from my dev ops provider informing me that this site would no longer build automatically if it detects that the underlying code hasn't changed recently. So I am now blogging for the sake of blogging in order to satisfy the needs of a machine that refuses…
In 1995 I had the honor of being asked to join a band with a major label record deal. I really had no idea what that meant. It being 1995, there wasn’t really an easy to access online reference explaining the mechanics of record deals. I’d consider myself a reasonably intelligent person, and at the time I was still in an English PhD program at UC, Irvine, yet still I had only the most limited,…
Every now and again a piece of nostalgia comes out of nowhere and stops the world around me for a while. I mean, nostalgia is weird. I am an extremely sentimental person. It's probably not a very healthy sentimentality I guess. I'm idealistic, I tend to romanticize things, which is a recipe for ending up with a lot of regrets. (I ramble a bit below. Feel free to skip straight to the video .) The…
So sloppy, but pretty. Anyway, it's raining.
Please enjoy me stumbling through this thing, which could be ... something. I dunno we'll see if I use it.
Have some lazy harmonics.