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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
i like this new song that i have been working on (mp3) but i can't seem to settle on the lyrics. i think i just have to keep working at it until it feels right, but in the meantime that means a lot of time spent with the microphone on, ...
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Sunday, February 12th, 2006
many years ago my friend and one-time manager mike halle turned me on to a willie nelson song. this afternoon, with a little time to kill before running out to a dinner party for my 40th, i remembered the song, it seemed to fit my mood, and decided to give ...
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Friday, January 20th, 2006
i wanted to sing a cat stevens song the other day, so i did a google search for the lyrics and wound up on his site. there is an area where fans submit their cover versions of his songs, so i recorded into white tonight.
my dad was the production designer ...
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Monday, January 16th, 2006
my brother complained that the guitar riff in "why and why not" needed something more. i'm a little out of practice, but i think i gave it. now it needs a real drummer. please listen to this at an extreme sound pressure level.
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Saturday, January 14th, 2006
so i tracked some vox for the song i came up with last night. give it a listen.
it's about my favorite parable by kafka and phil's theory that the man from the country awaiting entry could have passed through the gate to the law at any time, and it was ...
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Saturday, January 14th, 2006
i got home tonight and picked up the strat. six point five hours later, 4:30 AM, many recorded tracks later, i am listening to a really good song (or at least i *think*. check it out in its roughest state, and listen through to the bridge please). the time flew ...
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
i took another pass at the mixes on a couple of recent songs. actually, i should probably be tracking vocals for real this time, and not just tinkering with the mixes, but here they are so give them a listen.
15 minutes on a train
stellar profile
diner in the city
someone ...
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Saturday, November 12th, 2005
there is something fairly cinematic about looking around a train at night in a thunderstorm with headphones on. especially when you are sitting next to some pretty stranger. i have been listening to quadrophenia lately again, and this is something of a response to the alienation and insanity of jimmy ...
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Sunday, October 9th, 2005
i have now been to three airshows for fleet week in san francsico. the first two times (i can only find one post...) on the boate, and then yesterday on the land. i went over there with my mom, phil, jim and carol. i will say this: it's ...
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2005
i went over and joined about 500 people on the corner of solano and the alameda to protest the war in iraq. my brother sent me a couple of pictures from the one he went to down in venice. mom is still out there in ojai i imagine. here is ...
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