last week, my awesome grandma died. i went to the memorial service on saturday. i have been sad for the past week, but i suppose not super-sad, because i realize what a great, long life she lived, and she was always happy and loving ( Read more... )

i was going to make this a typical new music review post about what i've recently purchased and listened to. then i was randomly accosted by some old news that had slipped me by:

apparently, camu tao passed away on may 25th. got me back to thinking about this post i made after i found out about evan farrell dying. and the contemplation that - ( Read more... )

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it has taken a little longer than expected, but it is finally done! i have finished my newest ep, old habits die hardi had a lot of fun recording these seven new compositions over the past six months. i think it opened me up musically and psychologically in a lot of ways. careful attention to detail has given me the patience to hone my ( Read more... )

i know i've been relatively quiet about this lately (compared to how i usually babble on about myself shamelessly). but i'm finally just about done my latest collection of recordings. as previously discussed, it's a new ep, and as previously discussed, it's a concept piece about death; or perhaps more accurately, about life looking at death from ( Read more... )

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"Rented a tent, a tent, a tent.
Rented a tent, a tent, a tent.
Rented a tent, Rented a tent.
Rented a, Rented a tent."
~ the snare drums on Mars, The Sirens of Titan.

“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.”
~ tombstone epitaph of Kilgore Trout, Breakfast of Champions.

kurt vonnegut, you will be sorely missed. R.I.P.

so maybe our tentative planning of a roadtrip along the dempster isn't such a great idea after all?

5 dead in Dempster Highway accident.

aw, who am i kidding? i don't even have a license or a car anymore. it's not like i'm gonig to be roadtrippin' anytime soon. well that's one less thing to die of.

Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett dies.

syd, the piper at the gates of dawn will take you home.

i need to get my creative streak fired up again. it has not been working properly. error. no function. i doodle but they just look like doodles. very little if any artistic merit. i fiddle with noises but they just sound like noises. very little if any musical value. i tinker with words but they string together haphazardly. very little if ( Read more... )