( Girl-girl rom-coms and the temporal permanence of love... )

Headphones mixing keyboard with computer (itunes, music editing software). Listening to Star Wars soundtrack music and carefully transcribing familiar melodies for Cantina Band NYE gigI'd turned my desk to face the wall - makes more space, y'know - so last night I'm working by moody candle and monitorlight, my back to the wide dark open space ( Read more... )

( My pictures of Figrin Da'n and the Modal Nodes - Star Wars Cantina Band - Halloween 2009! )

Just got home from the Burning Opera. Oh, how good it was.

I remain profanely ambitious, but I now understand I will not meet eternity as the guy who updated Hair for a world now grown to include Burning Man. If you'd asked me two years ago, I might well have described that as my plan. Now, oh well. Other things ( Read more... )

A friend mentioned that she was over steampunk. I still dig it, but I understand. Steampunk is totally in its disco phase. Some go for outrageous brass-rivet glamour over practical nuance - Full Metal Jacket with diving helmet and rocket pack - while others slap on a pair of goggles and some tweed and it's Love To Love You Lord PeterFunny how ( Read more... )

( Great book: 'Napoleon's Buttons - 17 Molecules that Changed History' )

Got a ticket for the Burning Opera next Wed, Oct 21!

( One thing has surprised me about social networking websites. )

( Re: sci-fi focus on military... )

Wet-dry vac pulls gunk through hose into chamber where a sucky thing wrapped in sheer cloth pulls the air out again through a vent while gunk falls to bottom of chamber ( Read more... )