I was tagged. When tagged, the taggee must post 5 guilty pleasures. Then tag 5 friends who must post the rules, their 5 guilty pleasures and tag 5 more people ( Read more... )

I don't know at what point I decided that it would be a good idea to stow a sheaf of already-old lyrics inside the notebook/sketchbook that I kept over two visits to Portugal, or at what point, fairly soon after that I'm sure, that I forgot entirely about having put them there. Earlier this evening was an interesting trip down the proverbial memory ( Read more... )

So I just read about Pandora, a part of the Music Genome Project. It's a very cool idea, really: these cats are trying to group music by, well, what it sounds like, and Pandora is, I guess, their way to simultaneously offer up what they've come up with so far, and to tweak their results a bit. Basically, you type in the name of an artist you like, ( Read more... )

It's been insanely busy, but I'm taking steps to get a lot of that knocked out over the course of the week. I finished round one of the production for one of the songs on our forthcoming demo and put that in the mail. I'm plugging away on the forty hour gig. Over the rest of the week, I need to knock out the logos for some big statewide group that ( Read more... )

Beatboxing plus harmonica.

W. sings a nice John Lennon/Lou Reed medley. Yeah, you read that right.

There's been a lot of bullsh!t going on in New Orleans over the last week that has pissed me off far more than being sent to prison there did. But this little tidbit is pretty near the top of the list even though it would never make the news. Some people lost everything. On the other hand, some people evidently need to lose a little more ( Read more... )

Last night was fantastic. I went to what was at the same time one of the best parties and the best rodas I've ever been to ( Read more... )

Damn, there are more Black Album remixes than I'd ever imagined, and this cat's put together a page of five to seven thousand of 'em. Well, not that many, but a lot.

I went looking after I heard Jay-Z talk about "The Purple Album" in an interview; and that is, you guessed it, his Black Album crossed with Prince's Purple Rain. Among the other ( Read more... )

"Runes and Men" - Death in June
"Shoes and Dress That Alice Wore" - Tom T. Hall
"Hell Awaits" - Slayer
"Be Thankful for What You've Got" - William DeVaughan
"The Man with the Child in His Eyes" - Kate Bush
"Oh Coal Black Smith" - Current 93
"Sweet William" - (Trad.)"I'm Into Your Game" - Kevin Coyne ( Read more... )