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For reasons beyond my understanding, my previous entry (in which I wrapped up reflections on my San Francisco trip and mentioned replacing the original images in the previous two entries with Dan's photos from the trip) never posted to Facebook. If you're on Facebook and following my LiveJournal blog, I suggest that you seek ( Read more... )

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ehowton!!!
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There is now more music on my iPod than I've had capacity for in the past. Just for shits and giggles...


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It's interesting that I've had not one but two ideas kind of spring forth at once. Since the inexplicable explosion of mix-making I had earlier this year, the only project that I'd really been working on since was the Alex North epic set. Then Varèse Sarabande had the unmitigated gall¹ to release the long-thought lost score from Les Misérables, ( Read more... )

This is a scene towards the end of the film and contains some spoilers.

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I watched this film last night as I am currently reading Max Allan Collins' follow-up novel Road to Purgatory (the original book was a graphic novel with some astounding artwork by Richard Piers Rayner). The film improves in several ways on the graphic ( Read more... )

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

- Henry David Thoreau

In late 2001, I got my first computer with a CD burner in it. The Philosopher was a project that I had been tossing around in my head for a couple of months, but the very idea of it required me to be ( Read more... )

I had originally wanted to redo my Fear! mix that I had made several years ago in time for Hallowe'en this year. Circumstances prevented me from being able to do that, so I decided to leave the project for next year. However, I recently had an idea for a different approach to the material; instead of a single disc I would make three, and each one ( Read more... )

Last night I put together the final edit of my follow up to Songs of the Heavens. It is interesting how the new programs I use and the Nomad have changed the process of making a mix disc since I compiled that one two and a half years ago. Previously, I would get an idea for a mix and have to compile the tracks and finish it in one session. Today ( Read more... )

Playful Tunes

I had been toying with the idea of an album like this for some time, but I didn't know really where to start. An advantage of the Nomad, however, is that it is very easy to create a playlist on the fly, and so one day, while listening to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban a few months ago, I realized that "Aunt Marge's Waltz" ( Read more... )

Mom is making a big chicken for dinner tonight. I didn't realize how good poultry could be until she got this new oven. Now, every time she makes a chicken or a duck I try to somehow ingratiate myself into the dinner table.


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