Archive for August, 2007

Dancing about driving in circles

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Writ­ing about music is like danc­ing about archi­tec­ture.
I’m not sure who orig­i­nally said this — I first heard it attrib­uted to Elvis Costello, but I’ve heard many oth­ers given credit for it in the years since.
My co-worker is cur­rently lis­ten­ing to a Nascar race. On the radio.
If any­thing could ever be more excit­ing than watch­ing guys […]

All those squeaky little ones and zeroes

Friday, August 17th, 2007

The CD turned 25 yes­ter­day. (via Scott Andrew)
As every­one else has turned this into an occa­sion for nos­tal­gia, so shall I…
I bought my first 2 CDs ever dur­ing my family’s last few months liv­ing in Tai­wan, in the sum­mer of 1988. The CDs were the albums “Win­dow” and “Pure White” (loosely trans­lated) by one of my […]

Ur out of ur element, Donny

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Lebowski theme week con­tin­ues!
I just unearthed this image from the mess of icons on my desk­top. It was cre­ated a few months back when I was fool­ing around with a LOL­Cat builder (link to a newer one at BigHuge­Labs, as the orig­i­nal LOL­Cat builder seems to be down at the moment). And yes, I do […]

Takin’ ‘er easy for all us sinners

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

A post at the Arts and Faith mes­sage­board points out an arti­cle about The Big Lebowski writ­ten by The Dude him­self, Jeff Bridges.
Look­ing fur­ther into the arti­cle, it appears to to be excerpted from the fore­word to a new book on all things Lebowski.
I’ve already wish­listed it.

Just what I needed

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Some­times, the only thing you need to clear your mind of all the crap within is a nice long walk.
Carla and I are sit­ting in this Sun­day with the wor­ship band at our old church, so I stayed in Port­land after work to rehearse last night. After rehearsal got out, I noticed I was woefully […]

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