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Glen Phillips remix

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Glen Phillips, one of my favorite songwriters, is sponsoring a contest to promote his new EP, Secrets of the New Explorers. Much like Nine Inch Nails, the Beastie Boys and Jim’s Big Ego before him, he’s provided the multi-track .wav files to his song “The Spirit of Shackleton” for budding remixers/arrangers/karaoke vocalists to do with […]

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Carlos Santana Shreds!

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

This has to be one of the funniest/most awful things I’ve seen on the YouTubes in ages. Some background reading may aid in your understanding, but even without knowing what’s going on, just revel in the sheer hideous incompetence of it all.

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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 […]

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That was the river, this is the sea

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Me, I’m still screwing around with my Portastudio…
- Roddy Frame
Last night, for the first time in months, maybe even years, I recorded myself improvising on the keyboard.
A lifetime ago, I left college to “follow my muse.” (Well, there were other reasons, too, but let’s stick with the poetic sounding one for now…) It […]

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Catching up

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

I’ve read somewhere that it’s bad blogging form to apologize for a lack of posting. So, in true “pick myself up, dust myself off” form, here, unapologetically, is a bullet point summary of what’s happened since my last post.

If you couldn’t tell by my last post, things are getting really horrendous at work, to […]

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