mushin no shin

Well I’ve been taking it slow, just doing a few things each weekend, trying to ease my way back in, not forcing it. There’s been some waiting as I’ve had to get a few things — the new midi controller, new monitors, a new stand, a new power supply. And I’ve still got a lot [...]

there’s a small set of ‘em

It’s probably too soon to write much about it, but it would suck to miss the chance to make the first entry on this date (yeah I know it’s the 3rd already, but I’m sure it’s still legally the 1st until sometime tomorrow morning).
Well, I got the upstairs unpacked. Many species of disc and tape [...]

so here we go;
sorry I haven’t written much here lately. I have no greater excuse than simply not having been in the right frame of mind.
Well. Don’t know when I’ll be back, but I’m here. And it’s Saturday night, after Christmas. It’s been a decent one. Thursday with the dad, brother, and brother’s family, at [...]

we needed about three songs before we got our heads around the fact that yes, we were actually here. In the same room with Leonard Cohen. Leonard Cohen! And he was onstage singing these songs to us.
Yep, that about sums it up. I’m still buzzing from one hell of a fantastic show.

I’m afraid if I don’t post something, then the gears of this software might rust or atrophy or something. So I’ll tell ya that I got a couple of Philip Glass discs for Christmas, including his latest opera Waiting for the Barbarians.
Which is excellent, except it’s funny because for the last month or so I’ve [...]

I lack the discipline to get into weekly theme posts like the “feel good Friday” thing, but Halloween on a Friday calls for some celebrating. Perhaps a double shot, even.
It’s just not Halloween without Danny Elfman:

Or that master songsmith of gothic macabre, Weird Al:

(Sorry I couldn’t find a version where the video didn’t sort of [...]

Somehow I got this song stuck in my head this morning, so I had to find it and give it a listen.

Last night brought nearly three hours of Henry Rollins doing his uproariously funny spoken-word gig last night. I’d seen the Rollins Band play many moons ago (Lollapalooza ‘91, back when the ass-kicking What Am I Doing Here was on my shortlist of favorites), but never had the chance to see him do his spoken word [...]

Back when I was just a smart teenage nerd with a budding anti-authoritarian streak, The Manhattan Project, a film a about a teenager who builds an atomic bomb, was a natural and instant favorite. Hell, I eventually even sampled the damn thing:
Chaos Dreary
But of course, whatever real merits the movie may have had, I was [...]