There are a few - not many - albums that I can listen to on repeat indefinitely and never get bored with them. For one reason or another, each has a complexity that satisfies the requirements to keep me interested. I have a low tolerance for sub-par, facile music that attempts nothing innovative. Which is to say, I have a low tolerance for about 98 ( Read more... )

I'm taking little Final Cut tutorial lessons, and want to get my hands dirty editing and familiarizing myself with some F/X. So here are a couple "new" (uh, 100-200 yrs old) songs for ya.

First, Grieg's one and only Nocturne. Pity he didn't write more. I think he had a knack for 'em.

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Next, a little finger-bender I like to call Schubert's ( Read more... )

This is the only Grieg Nocturne I've heard or played, but if they're all this good, I should really look into finding the sheet music.

A simple little piece, bright, yet slightly melancholy. Just like me!

Edvard Grieg - Nocturne in C Major, Op. 54 No. 4 [3:54]

I apologize for not posting new music in … well, it seems like ages. I haven't been focusing on piano lately. I mean, yah, I've still been playing, but haven't felt up to struggling with monster pieces that stretch my wee skillz to the point of discomfort. You see, ordinarily, I'm a masochist when it comes to choosing new pieces to play. Lately I' ( Read more... )

I've been searching for ages for what we used to call our "Pixies Video," and finally stumbled upon it today.

The year is 1992. The setting, what would soon come to be known as San Francisco's, "Soma" district (though at the time, it was warehouses and little else - we may have been the only people living on 9th St. below Folsom ( Read more... )

Ben left this morning for the weekend. Gone till Monday. To Shreve-fucking-port, pobrecito. We're hardly attached at the hip or anything like that when he's home, but when he's gone I feel it acutely. And he feels my absence, so he reports, when he's away. It was an almost tearful farewell this morning when he left ( Read more... )

I emailed him asking if he was breathing okay (see my previous post).

Not only is his respiratory system functioning as it should, but he wrote back with news that he's the lead villain in the new film "Suck," along side Alice Cooper, Henry Rollins, Iggy Pop and, of course, Dave Foley.

Burning Brides are featured on the soundtrack as well. Great ( Read more... )

I suffer from performance anxiety ( Read more... )

When we were out with qfu and my Jefferson Parish cop friend, Ben asked Jef, "Is crime in J.P. more smashy-grabby, or shooty-killy ( Read more... )

Things are seeming a bit better since my last (f'locked) words. My back, while still very angry with me for doing risky acrobatics like getting in a car, picking up a cat, or turning to the right, is howling with less fervor than the last few days. An angry murmur, I'll call it, with episodes of minor shrieks just to liven the atmosphere. Also, I ( Read more... )