This is desperately late, but here it is: March Monthly music. I've been sitting on this improv structure for a while, but it's been so hard to record without fucking it up. Enjoy!

March

P.S. Remember that if you want to just listen without downloading it, you can click the play button in the snap preview thing that comes up when you mouse over.

I had Thriller by MJ stuck in my head, and so I typed it into Pandora Radio

So far

The BeeJees: "Stayin' Alive"
Queen: "Another One Bites the Dust"
Cyndi Lauper: "Time After Time"
Men At Work: "Down Under"
Michael Jackson: "Smooth Criminal"
Prince: "When Doves Cry"
Madonna: "Like A Prayer"
Queen: "Bohemian Rhapsody"

Amazing

I'm suddenly filled with the realization that I've been afraid I wouldn't have any real friends if it weren't for Lynn ( Read more... )

So sometimes a long and complicated decision process of what to make for dinner ends up in new and exciting results ( Read more... )

So my monthly music series continues. This one's a waltz I wrote for Lynn called "The Rowan Tree." I hope you like it. I've changed my filehosting site, so this should be a direct link to download the file. If your lj has the weird snapshot thing, I think you can play it straight from that, well, I can anyway.
The Rowan Tree

Someone has finally found the proper use for 12-sided dice!
Put each note of the chromatic scale on each face of the die, get a bunch of them, roll and play with the notes you get!
What a wonderful combination of geekery and music, its like the inanimate equivalent of me.

I just finished sending a piece of music out to everyone who helped me buy my keyboard, and it got me thinking about stuff, and so I decided I'm going to try to write a new piece of music every month and post it on the internet for free ('cause nobody's going to pay me for it ( Read more... )

I just finished reading a book that my aunt gave me. It was written by a man in England who was reminiscing about growing up with D&D in the '70s. I think the book was most interesting for its anecdotes about growing up in England at the time (analogies of school discipline to Abu Ghraib prison and the like). The problem with the book was it was ( Read more... )

Apparently in a bout nine months I'm going to be an uncle.
Strange.

Some things should never happen:

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