October 2011
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September 2011
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Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding // Elton...
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Music nerd toy: LilyPond
I found myself needing to notate some music in a hurry. I wasn’t in the mood to shell out big $ for Sibelius or the like, and while I have Logic Pro and it can do notation, it’s awkward and feels like it was jammed in after the fact (which it was, since it’s really a pro audio tool).
So I looked around last night and found LilyPond, a nifty little app that takes text files as...
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Recap: Neal Stephenson, REAMDE, and writing
So, as I’ve mentioned I think a million times, Neal Stephenson is my favorite author of all time. I don’t often go into fanboi territory, but I make an exception for him and I do so unabashedly. It would be no overstatement to say that Snow Crash and especially Cryptonomicon changed my life. Certainly they changed the way I perceive the world around me, and to the puny extent that...
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gig recap
I love Wisconsin, and I say that without smirking or irony, though I have to make two big exceptions for their taste in football and governors. Big props to the guy wearing an Urlacher jersey in the beer tent way behind enemy lines…that’s cojones grande.
After doing this a long time, it’s the little things that make me happy. To wit: downstage AC power for pedalboards.
Though,...
WatchNot kidding.
I ♥ Wisconsin.
WatchLike, whoa.
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Shameless self-promotion
On the rock and roll front, two things you should know about if you’re localish:
Saturday, Sept 25 with The Bradburys at St. Ed’s Fun Fest in Racine, WI. 5pm. The Bradburys are my power pop band, a frothy, high octane brew of originals and covers. Three or four chords per, big guitars and drums, three part harmonies, occasional facemelterishness and lavish costume changes. Be there...
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Light the Night walk for LLS
This Sunday, I am walking in the Light the Night Walk to raise funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Lymphoma has hit very close to home for me this year, lately including a friend of nearly 30 years who is battling it now. I know times are tough, but if you’d consider a donation (link), I’d be especially grateful. This is one of the cancers we really do have on the run, and...
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Backlash Backlash
Facebook changed their UI again today. That’s predictable. It had been a while and I was thinking they were due. As predictable as that is, griping about the changes is perhaps moreso, and lately, so is the smug, grating set of responses to the griping, the backlash to the backlash. Having been on Facebook since late 2006 or so, and a fairly avid user most of that time, I’ve seen a few...
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blaaargh:
Acedia describes a state of listlessness or torpor, of not caring or not being concerned with one’s position or condition in the world. It can lead to a state of being unable to perform one’s duties in life. Its spiritual overtones make it related to but distinct from depression. Acedia was originally noted as a problem among monks and other ascetics who maintained a solitary life.
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Colin Hay | Overkill
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Truthful Tuesday
Too many real life people are watching this space for me to as truthful about some things as I’d really like to be.
(no, not you. someone else.)
Zeroth world problem.
Help a friend, be in a video
Maybe you guys remember back in June when I posted a video that was made by my friend Tony Rogers for a song we’d worked on together. (Or maybe you don’t remember, in which case you should go check it out right now, because it’s really great and pretty much guaranteed to put a smile on your face.)
He’s at it again, this time looking for help from the world at large to make...
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Middle names
My dad’s middle name is Charles, which was his father’s first name.
My middle name is Kenneth, which is my father’s first name.
My son’s middle name is John, which is the UPS driver’s first name.
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mrsbadcrumble:
The Surreal McCoys will be streaming here: http://www.justin.tv/elboroomchicago momentarily.
They are not the terrible girl band playing right now. Oh holy Moses are they terrible.
OMG you guys. If you weren’t there—and you weren’t, because I was, and you left me hanging without a high five and bourbon shot partner—you will never know just how much ass...
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Blocked
Well. I’ll be seeing a lot less of you guys by day. But many of you look better in the dark of night, anyway, so there’s that.
So it goes.
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I knew it wouldn't last
Sometime before 10:00 local time, by which point all hell was breaking loose in NY and DC and everywhere, we got the word that Goldman was closing all their offices in North America and everyone was to go home immediately. We’d watched it all unfolding on the little TV’s at the trade desk (remember little TVs?) and at that point it still wasn’t clear what exactly was going on....
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Fight Song // The Good
themesong: Fight Song
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Who Do You Love? // The Good
An easy choice for...
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Soothe // Smashing Pumpkins
themesong: Usual...
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The Recliners: Upcoming gigs, including, um,... →
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Yep, just a little bit tardy in posting this one. Marketing Fail! But who has time for sissified nonsense like advertising when we work so hard to bring the rock?
Case in point: we learned two new songs this week just for this gig, if by “new” you’re willing to accept that they were actually…
I, uh, should have put this up earlier.
If any of you are looking for a good time...
