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Unbelievable. I know, I know... everyone talks about how time flies as you get older, and we're all amazed just at the movement of time itself. An utterly human phenomenon. Still. I cannot believe that it's November 9th, 2006.

I cannot believe that it has already been five years since the greatest weekend of my life.

( The Greatest Weekend of My Life )

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Today was a quiet day, mostly working lots of small jobs that needed to be taken care of. Weird. I just watched my computer clock go from 1:59:59 AM to 3:00:00 AM. A high-class clock, my computer is.

Anyway. Yesterday was much more noteworthy. I had a long phone conversation with Jen Staff née Sushinsky for the first time in a good while. I ( Read more... )

Tagged by bassmike

List the five albums that have been most influential to you. Not your *favorite* five albums necessarily, but the ones that changed the way you play or think about music, or even the way you look at the world around you.

Wow. This is quite a bit more difficult than naming "favourites!"

John Williams, The Empire Strikes Back (1980) I ( Read more... )

How's this for lucky? I just had reason to open up my nightstand drawer and saw that everything in it was all tossed around, no doubt from the move. In fact, the guys moving me had eventually taped the door shut for transport. As I sorted through the stuff, I naturally looked for the greatest treasure it contained: a personalized guitar pick of ( Read more... )

A belated Happy Birthday to Kevin Fleming, who is my ... uh, to whom I am Best Man. (Hmmm. There should be a way of saying that to make him the object of the sentence, but I can't say "he's my groom" without being completely misleading.) I can only beg off on having been sick and not getting back to people or as aware of them as I normally am or ( Read more... )

The last few days have continued to be focused on watching my medicine pretty closely and being paranoid about every tick and tremble of my belly. I know I have sufficient cause, but I do feel a bit silly about being so self-absorbed. Or sub-self-absorbed, since I'm only fixated upon one bodily system ( Read more... )

Well, I have another demo to post, but I'm a bit more reluctant on this one. I've been working on this recording of "Listen To You" on and off for a month now, and it's been far and away the hardest of the lot so far. After an obsessive last three days, I guess it's done, but "done" only in the sense that I don't know that I can do particularly ( Read more... )

As I said last night, a new demo recording is now up on the net: "The Right Dreams" is available for a listen here if you have a taste for such things. The one has an odd origin as having been originally conceived--on the musical side of things--as the "outro" to my song "Tunisian Blue." After I'd come up with the lyrics to "Tunisian Blue," ( Read more... )