2 things I'm excited about:

1.  Kath and I are taking a much-needed staycation next week.

2.  This should be arriving at my apartment tomorrow.


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1.  My aunt Hope (my stepfather's sister) passed away on Sunday morning at the age of 63.   She was in great health, great spirits, and then suddenly she was in the hospital with pneumonia and meningitis; she spent 5 weeks in a medicated coma, and slowly fell apart.  Her death is as tragic as it is horrifying.  The family is in a great deal of pain ( Read more... )

Sometimes I go whole days
listening bored, half asleep
I won't say anything
that's worth a thing to me
One day, suddenly, time
took a turn that once felt so brief
I blinked to see polite ghosts fading quickly

What begins as an unguarded
train of thoughts slowly can become
an addiction to the slumber
of disconnection and the resonance
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I think I'm at the point in my life where there is no such thing as a "guilty pleasure" - I like what I like, dammit, and I care about what I like.  I've spent a lot of time and money cultivating my cultural appetites.  And I'm 33 - I ceased to be "cool" about 10 years ago.

That said, there are things that I like that bother me; not because it ( Read more... )

A quick rundown:

1.  My long-overdue trip to the dentist this afternoon went much better than expected.  I was expecting my dentist to tell me that she was going to have to remove my face from my body; in actuality, even though it'd been 2 years since my last appointment, I was actually in better shape today than I was then.

2.  Finally watched " ( Read more... )

The short film I was composing music for is finally up and running.  Please check it out and vote for it (if you're so inclined!)

Humilikey

If you're a Facebook friend of mine, you might already know this:  Kath and I are sorta kinda maybe thinking about moving to Brooklyn.

We dearly love Astoria, which we definitely haven't explored enough; and we especially love our apartment, which is easily the best place I've lived in my 16+ years of NYC living (!); but we miss our friends.  I ( Read more... )

I'm not doing the Popless challenge in 2009, but I have stopped reading Pitchfork, and I've noticed two things - my reckless music purchases have slowed dramatically, and I find that I'm enjoying the music I do end up buying a hell of a lot more. For example, this AV Club feature on that most esoteric subgenre of music called "power-pop" came to ( Read more... )

1.  Finally finished the music for the short film I was working on; the producer seemed very pleased about how it turned out.  It's being submitted for at least one competition; if it makes its way onto YouTube, I'll post a link.  I was contemplating just putting the music up on my vox site, but I think it would be better to hear it in its proper ( Read more... )

There's a million things going on right now, and I hope to get into them later today; but I am finally allowed to formally announce the release of the record I was working on last year.  I did most of the piano/organ on it, and while I didn't write any of the songs, I did have a pretty big hand in the arrangements.  We recorded it in the same ( Read more... )