Lately I've recorded a number of my songs that have been "published" for a while, but for which I have not previously posted a recording. There are also several songs that have been finished for a while, but which I hadn't posted because I thought I would set up a new version of my website first - and I still think I wil soon, but I've realized we ( Read more... )

My, it's been a long time. There have been a number of exciting things that happened that I meant to post something about, and then didn't. Someday, maybe, I will. I've been preoccupied, and I've been thinking that any day now I'll redo my website, and have been holding off updating my current website for that reason ( Read more... )

Another pair of songs that could go with some narrative by way of explanation, although not original this time. Spoilers follow for 2001, Portal, and the general premise of Half-life and Half-life 2.So, HAL and GLaDOS... have a lot in common. They're artificial intelligences assigned to scientific projects who ultimately demonstrate their ( Read more... )

I seem to do a lot of my songwriting at and in the wake of conventions - I guess the creative juices get recharged, or something. Anyway, I have a lot of new songs to post, and in addition one song that was held in reserve so I could spring it out at Contata (which went over very nicely). Contrary to my earlier announcement, I will be posting ( Read more... )

Over the last week or so, I have had a musical flood - I've written a number of new songs, extensively revised a few old songs, and recorded yet more songs to which I posted lyrics long ago. I've also posted a number of songs that aren't new-to-me, but which hadn't been posted previously.

The complete list of updates is on my songs page, without ( Read more... )

Four Jewish songs - one is new, one was written back August but was kept under wraps until now for seasonal reasons, one was posted before but now has an MP3 up, and one has been in the MP3 directory on my website for some time and I simply neglected to mention it.

"My People's Story" (MP3) was inspired in large part by this post, and by a top- ( Read more... )

From The Annotated Alice, by Lewis Carroll with notes by Martin Gardner: "O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"34
34A species of arctic duck that winters in northern Scotland is called the calloo after its evening call, "Calloo! Calloo!"

More likely, as readers Albert L. Blackwell and Mrs. Carlton S. Hyman each pointed out, Carroll had in mind two ( Read more... )

I could talk about real life. Real life is being really crazy just now - and please send fiddledragon more hugs - but I don't want to talk about real life. Or study database systems, apparently. I want to post songs. Lots of songs ( Read more... )

In his essay "On Fairy Stories", J.R.R. Tolkien draws a distinction between "magic" and "enchantment". The distinction is subtle, and I don't have a copy handy, but very roughly, magic is about making things happen, and enchantment is about art, about making experiences happen (and is what elves do ( Read more... )

A lot (mostly good) happened since I last posted, and lot more (holidays, homework, travel...) is about to happen, but it's late, and I'm in a hurry, so I'll just leave you all with this titlebunny:

"Indiana Jones and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat"

You know, Indiana Jones is frequently off searching for biblical artifacts, so it could totally ( Read more... )