September.25.2009. • 10:21 AM
I heard the White wedding cover by whip on Pandora and had to hunt it down.
You can find it HERE via: Town Full of Losers
This live song by mount eerie has the audience singing and is strangely haunting and beautiful. I found it HERE via: Large Hearted Boy
Then there is Christian Cuff, whose music I haven’t been able to get out of my head since his live performance in Biddeford’s North Dam Mill (a show that I helped put together)
You can see a vid of him playing live at the Dog fish (local bar/restaurant in Portland, ME)
HERE or listen on his myspace page
I realize I’ve not been blogging nearly as much as I used to or maybe just not the same way I used to…
You can find more recent stuff I’ve posted HERE (if your interested)
Filed under: entertainment., music , mp3, music, songs
Filed under: entertainment., family, life, music, personal., random, youtube , humor, kids, life, parenting, random, youtube
February.19.2008. • 11:03 PM
February.14.2008. • 5:25 PM
I have been playing with tumblr and I kinda like it. It is good and quick to post snippets of web stuff.
HERE IS MY TUMBLR PAGE
I have not been posting nearly as much— because I have a tendency to get lost on the web or on the computer instead of doing what I really needed to be doing: working in the studio. Long story short, I have been trying to limit my online time and tumblr may allow me to be bloggy with out consuming as much time…However now that my MFA app is out the door, I can reclaim some of my web time and will be posting with greater frequency
Filed under: blogs., web2.0 , tumblr, web
August.10.2007. • 12:57 PM
from dirty jerzey to pampered to xxxl-mas this fleshy Joe Pesci, Heavy-Meadow Soprano- jersey girl makes rap fun again. The odd thing is that this girl, the one in the videos, isn’t the one rapping. ChunkyPam is played by Ashlie Atkinson who is actually from Arkansas (not NJ) and also appeared in 6 episodes of rescue me. Chunky Pam’s voice comes from Meredith DiMenna, but the lyrics she spouts come from the mind of Geremy Jasper. So this chick is so large she is actually three people.
but its still fun to listen to…
Filed under: entertainment., music, random, youtube
part one. [a full grown man can't escape the grip of the Disney channel]
Teagan requested that we tape a kids movie she saw advertised on Disney channel called Brink!, about a group of inline skaters (that includes a girl) who are ’soul skaters’ and all is good until one of them gets sponsored. So we tape it for her. Saturday morning she wakes up ready to go at 6 am, finally at 7 we got up and started watching Brink! After about an hour Teagan is bored so I turn off the tv. Later that night… I am sitting on th couch wondering what happens to Brink and his crew— this alone would be embarrassing but when you factor in the fact that I occasionally bop around the house singing Hana Montanna songs and you can feel my shame. Damn that daughter of mine, infecting me with all that Disney syrupy sweet shit. I swear they use some kind of mind control.
part two. [the four year old sounds like she hosts a reality TV show]
Teagan and Karen took me mini golfing as part of the fathers day extravaganza. As we are golfing Teagan excitedly looks at Karen after a good shot and says: “Congratulations mommy you are part of our top ten!” Now that alone would be funny but this morning at breakfast she blurted out some thing like: “that would be freakin’ crazy wouldn’t it? I mean, thats just like… crazy!” She also now refers to all of the people on her favorite shows/movies by their real names as opposed to their character names and tried to start calling Karen and I by our first names.
Filed under: entertainment., family, life, personal., reality tv, tv
I guess it was about 8 months ago that I first started to use the neti pot to cleanse/rinse my nasal passages after it was suggested by my acupuncturist. I have been diagnosed in the past as having chronic sinusitis, and I am prone to intense headaches, night sweats and have had multiple sinus infections each year for the past 10. Last fall I had gone to my regular doctor with persistent sinus congestion and pain that was not progressing to any infection nor was it dissipating and draining. My doctor basically told me that because I did not have an infection that she couldn’t do anything for me but she could refer me to an acupuncturist. In addition to the acupuncture he has given me strategies to deal with these chronic problems combining yoga practice, general body awareness and some Ayurveda-esque techniques, specifically the practice of nasal cleansing using the neti pot. I have not had any sinus infections, night sweats or intense, crippling headaches since my first visit.
Now I have reached the point where each morning I look forward to using my neti pot— with all of the pollen in the air my body has begun to sort of crave this ritual cleaning. Oprah recently had a show where a doctor demonstrated the use of the neti pot, which has led to a huge surge in the number of people using them and a shortage of the pots in brick and mortar as well as online stores. If you are curious here is a bunch of people doing it on youtube.
Filed under: backstory, life, personal., random, youtube
For a non-musician, music is such a large part of my life, and for that matter my family’s lives. Instead having the television on eternally, we listen to music almost constantly. It is so much more than just background, it is part of the foreground— it is emotional and intellectual fuel for my day. It has become an essential part of my creative process. I seem to need a constant influx of non-visual stimulations in order to keep me moving forward and music has such profound power. It is the only art form that physically moves us— actually vibrating little bones, and causing waves in the fluid filled chambers of our inner ear. We effortlessly feel music in a way that, as a visual artist, I will be eternally envious of and thankful for.
The last actual, physical CD that I bought was TV on the radio’s return to cookie mountain, and its contents along with their other albums have been a staple for me in the studio. Something about the way they play with the vocals and instrumentation never ceases to stir up emotions and memories. If you are into TV on the radio you might also like Menomena (pronounced like the song from the muppets) they’ve been around for a few years but I have only recently started listening to them with regularity thanks to left of center (Sirius 26). You ain’t no Picasso has one of my favorites up for sampling purposes…
so check out Gay A (via you ain’t no Picasso) and while your at it you may want to give a listen to The Pelican (via the glorious hum) and Air aid (via Pretentious prattle). Tracks are often posted for a limited time only, sample soon so you don’t miss out.
Here are a few more artists/songs that have been stirring me up lately, most of which I originally heard on left of center, later found on the web and eventually bought on itunes:
Breaker by Low— apparently it’s just me and one dude from Iceland listening to these guys. I’d like to credit the blog this track is posted on but I can’t read Icelandic.
+81 by deerhoof (via the sky was candy)
True Affection by The Blow (via Not on the guest list)
if you really dug the un.covers and are looking for more, try these:
If you feel guilty about kinda liking Gwen Stefani try Franz Ferdinand doing Gwen Stefani’s what you waiting for? (via I was here)
If you love the lo fi try Casiotone for the Painfully alone ft. Dear Nora doing Missy Elliot’s Hot Boyz (via dial 6-1-3)
Filed under: entertainment., family, life, music, personal., random, thoughts
Earlier this week I put up a post of some covers that I had found in my various web wanderings. In the first version of the post I was ignorantly linking directly to the songs in question. My goal was not to pass off the content as my own, I was simply interested in making it easier for my friends and the few random readers that stumble in to find these little gems. In my haste (or possibly laziness) I hadn’t given credit to where I found the songs in the first place. (this is atypical even for me) Literally, within minutes of the post going up one of the guys over at auralfitness posted a comment, simply and bluntly telling me of my faux-pas, which I quickly corrected.
We shared a few emails back and forth and he helped me to understand my error and the rationale behind the proper way to post music. I enjoy being able to post about anything that strikes me and, while I have no intentions to make this a music blog, I am sure music will appear in future posts as it is ever present in my life. Thanks to the short email dialog with the Stu, and this article that the guys at auralfitness posted I am learning that there is a real code of ethics that is known by mp3 bloggers. Now that I am aware of this code, I will do my best to follow it.
and for the record, I end up buying most of the music I sample—
so thanks to the real mp3 bloggers out there for helping me spend my money wisely.
Filed under: entertainment., life, music, tech-ish., thoughts, web2.0
