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If I’m either too lazy to give it a category or it’s too widespread it will end up here.
There are no less than forty-five drafts on this here blog that will not see the light of day for the immediate future for they are all song lyric posts. Lyrics, might I add, that are as incomplete as the corresponding music is.
I got this crazy idea involving cameras for a song I’ve been [...]
I sort of resolved to blog more a few months ago. I was good about it for a while but the interest didn’t stick. I decided to only blog when I could utilize a picture as well, which became increasingly difficult as I switched entirely (and for the better) to film. As I type this [...]
Curious Quail is finally in full swing. The EP is on iTunes, the physical CD’s are coming in the mail and I have songs lined up to be finished. All I need to do is line up more shows and practice.
I took this picture on our Birthdaversary road trip through the Mojave and intentionally tagged it on Flickr with the names written on it hoping they might find it.
They totally did.
Rule # 1 - Never blog when you have nothing to say at that particular moment.
Rule # 2 -
I actually trolled 4chan today. I don’t know why. It just sort of happened in a bout of sleeplack coupled with the everlong wait that scanning negatives brings.
This has been a somewhat productive couples of weeks for me, musically. I’d had a few…shit, I don’t know…genre identity issues? Not that [...]
You know something is afoot when your doctor shows up less than one second after the admitting nurse leaves and the first thing out of her mouth is, “You Don’t have a Tumor”.
On Tuesday I finally got to sit down with my primary care practitioner and explain all of my sinus weirdness. She opted [...]
While watching season 3 of Northern Exposure Jess and I came by this, one of many scipted jems given to Barry Corbin in his role as Maurice Minnifield. (In discussion of the Japanese idea that sex under the aurora would produce a “gifted” child)
“If some of our GM executives had been conceived
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Instead of editing and creating my own theme for the time being, I thought it pertinent to represent the SNES.
The random thought train has just checked into station! This is your final warning.
I was reading up on the Mother 3 (Earthbound 2) fan translation over at Starmen.net when the “Radio PSI” link popped up. They have some kind of radio show that plays…well, I’m not sure what. I figured it would be music [...]
My computer desk is neat, yet the chair is not comfortable. This isn’t too surprising as it is a basic folding chair one would find at home around a folding card table. Only without the AA innuendo.
Jess and I house-sat for Andee and Jeremy, or rather, dog-sat. Ginsburg is a lovely creature and a [...]
I am not surprised by the results of California Proposition 8. I am sickened, but I am not at all surprised.
On the other hand, watching the first non-white individual accept the mantle of President-Elect of the United States ran some chills all over. There are political reasons for days as to why tonight was [...]
This is not a post regarding my feelings on prop 8, just to be clear.
The world in which we live is sometimes a sickening place.
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A 13-year-old girl who said she had been raped was stoned to death in Somalia after being accused of adultery by Islamic militants, a [...]
On Monday night at a band meeting I quit Braeburn. The most interesting responses (polar opposites) came from the two individuals present who are not members of the band. The support from the one side was very insightful and welcome, and the attempted attack on my previous bands failures by the other was unexpected. Makes [...]
I shoot film!
Monday will probably be a better time to put out all of the thoughts and such I had regarding tonight’s show.
Braeburn decided to play at least one show before Jonathan left on a romp through Europe so we came up with the idea for [...]
No Opener? I gots a solution for you!
Jess and I had plans to have a late lunch with her college roommate Sarah in Mountain View today. It is the perfect halfway point between us and her since she would be Caltraining from San Francisco and there’s this [...]
None of which I feel at current. This is by far the most emo thing I have ever put on the internet.
We’re getting down to the wire on election season. I’ve been watching the coverage of the candidates rather extensively and what bothers me more than anything is this double talk about Homosexuality. Both campaigns “Support same sex UNIONS, but not Marriage.”
Here’s what I don’t get: How can it possibly be okay to create a [...]
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Originally uploaded by Sophisticated Kitty
One quarter of a century is not a very long time to walk the earth, but it has more or less been enjoyable. I certainly think more quarters of centuries are in order.
Oh, and this on the left is [...]
Ever since re-launching a MySpace profile for my music and actively seeking out the people I’d like to hear said music I have discovered just how MySpace has changed over the last couple of years.
On the whole, it looks and acts the same, but the fear of spammers and profile hackers has led to [...]
I hate to be sensationalist, but I seriously think I will have to move out of the country if the moose-eating whore become a heartbeat away from the presidency.
I thought that apart from myself and maybe climatologists, no one knew what the word “albedo” means. Saw this on Digg today. Seems interesting, but the name cracked me up.
An EP is an important step for any musician. I call this the Catch 4/4; Do you perform to gain notoriety and THEN make an [...]
I’ve been experimenting with Ableton Live after all these years of having it sit in a folder I never touch. I love and hate it; it can do almost everything I want it to, but it can do so much more than I’ll ever care to need. I wish there was a way to turn [...]
The Evergreen Gig was a bit of a disaster.
Mike had been told that there was a sound system, and therefore no need to bring one. He was told there would be an awning and chairs for the crowd to sit under and in respectively.
A ten inch speaker with two XLR inputs does not [...]
Songs and Status (Electric/ Acoustic):
Elæven - Done / Done
Shard - Done / Done (Will probably never play solo acoustic)
Somedays We Sin - Done / Done
The Secret Lives of Retail Monkeys - Done / Done
Yesterday I Watched The World End - Done / 40%
Making Circles Square - Done / 80%
Bottlecaps - Done / Done
The Visit - [...]
Write the subject line later; it keeps you more free to do what you want.
I’ve made it a point to actually spend more time writing and updating this. My lyrical and literary work has been getting pushed aside as of late.
There are quite a few songs both for my solo project and Braeburn that [...]
Dental work is a strange beast; I think I should feel more attached to the pieces of my body that are being removed. The tooth being yanked in seven hours is something I’ve had for a long time, a piece of my genetic history. Seem strange that I’m anxious to see it the fuck gone; [...]
I do not want Safari. I do not want Quick Time. I do not want the Apple Mobile Device service. I do not wan the iTunes Helper service. I do not want the Apple Software updater. I just wanted to see if iTunes 7.1 had anything other than iPhone additions and I’m sorry that I [...]
One of my hard drives suffered a SMEF (Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure) this evening while I was trying to partition a completely different hard drive for an OSX install.
It’s funny, the drive I was technically doing illegitimate things to trucked along nicely. This other drive (my Pro Tools drive, might I add) physically vanished [...]
A judge in Russia dismissed a sexual harrasment suit where a female employee was told by her employer that she would be required to have sex with him or lose her job; his reasoning is that “Sexual harassment is necessary for the propagation of the species.”
On one hand, I’m glad it’s not my country but [...]
We got back from the Mojave last night - earlier than planned but still an amazing experience. Check the Flickr in the meantime.
It would be nice if women stopped believing the lies the Republican party tells them. Sure, they may campaign on some of them pesky “female issues” but let’s face the facts: The GOP as it stands right now is not “Republican”, it is a hijacked airliner full of Neoconservative right wing religious fanatics who would [...]
Noe and Sarah got married yesterday and we all had way too much to drink. Noe looked so happy I thought his smile was going to break his face, Sarah’s dress was beautiful, Grayson smuggled in water bottles full of gin, the DJ thought porn jazz and Bon Jovi made good wedding music - it [...]
Slideshow!
The coordinates of the place where the Apollo 11 spacecraft landed on Luna are 00°41′15″N, 23°26′00″W (in moon terms). Those EXACT same coordinates on Earth are in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. What’s fascinating is that this particular spot in the Atlantic is pretty damn close to where Ignatius L. Donnelly predicted the lost [...]
Joshu Friedman is a guitar God.
Not just in the performance / teaching / playing sense, but in the world of repairs. I was tinkering with my busted Martin (shattered on solid concrete sometime in 2005) seeing if I could salvage parts when I remembered that my Braeburn-mate had once worked for Santa Cruz Guitar [...]
I’m thinking about playing some more acoustic solo shows to work out some performance comfort. Saturday went great, but I feel I’m still not 100% when in front of a crowd regardless of how many people I do or do not have the acquaintance of. I’m going to run a few a few experiments with [...]
…and for the record, the supreme court has done much worse in our history than allowing our judiciary process to apply to those in Guantanamo.
What I don’t get is that when Habeas Corpus was denied to us by the British we raised holy revolutionary hell. How have we fallen as a society? Is it [...]
Jake and I were discussing the gay marriage issue the other day - he poised the question that all religions, which differ on many points, have marriage so how can the Christian faith (of which he is a follower) specify that it is between a man and a woman and have the “correct interperetation”? To [...]
…which includes only the ‘legal’ definition, so statistically heterosexuals are screwing marriage up all by themselves, and Polls showing that over 54% of Californians oppose the legalisation of Gay Marriage totally fucking bumfuzzle me.
The majority of people who oppose gay marriage do so because it’s a “religious contract betwixt a man, a woman and God”. [...]
Here is the list of senators who have objections (or have instituted holds) to a nationwide tracking system for patients with ALS, S.1382:
* Arizona: Senators John McCain & Jon Kyl
* Colorado: Senators Wayne Allard & Ken Salazar
* Idaho: Senator Mike Crapo
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Tinkering has lead to some changes, as well as some additions. The sidestories that have thusfar not been included in the website have been added. Gorn and Falia is the tale of Caiman and his adventures. I am on the fence about keeping the Albedo Effect subtitle because it’s [...]
I heard the news today, oh boy
Collaboration is fun!
The four of us had coffee, cameras, and flashlights. Things were bound to happen.
It felt oddly lie being young again. Our car was parked a few blocks away from the coffee shop; when I jogged back (or as [...]
Oh sick.
Being sick, thanks largely to my old Doctor who informed me I had been misdiagnosed for years regarding my sinus problems and gave me a daily allergy pill to solve all of my problems, is not something I am used to anymore.
When I was younger I would get a positively insane sinus [...]
Laptops are conducive to productivity.
I discovered the wonder of Windows User profiles back in late January and set up a profile for Jess on my PC. It’s a beast, processorally and RAMatically so Photoshop and her are mostly agreeable. Her old Toshiba laptop, we’re talking this thing was bought in 2000, actually has enough [...]
This is all the inner workings of a book, some of which has found its way into song by various means. Some songs are less obvious, some are pretty blatant.
Anyway, the story structure has changed a bit since this blog launched. This is the update and the order, for those of you whom have [...]
When tackling a writing project as vast as the one I am attempting to piece together it seems that distractions are at every turn. The reason this project has become to complex is simply that I would get slightly bored working on the same thing and jostle down completely different stories. I would spend ages [...]
When Sara Ziegler was born both of her parents inexplicably died of heart failure.
The doctors could not explain the phenomenon as both individuals were of sound health and had no pre-existing family history of heart trouble. Sara had no legal guardian on record and no immediate family so she was put into pre-natal foster [...]
All of this is going to become a book. It may never be published. It may hang on my wall or live as a desk conversation piece.
It’s a collection of stories that all intertwine in one way or another. I’ve tried to break it down into nameable parts:
Introduction - Sara
The Diary of Lee Brighton
Interlude [...]
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