things in convenient three pack

1. I have too many things to parent right now; too many things in infancy. Three days ago I paced the home office for what seemed like a good hour trying to decide which thing to parent along. Amongst those things is: joining a new culture and all that goes along with that (learning [...]

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My band, 3Tons, recently finished recording what amounts to our first “professional” demo; and I’m determined to make the most of it. After all there are few moments in this slow growth band experience worthy of promotion. It’s also an opportunity to build on my own vocational skill set. As well it’s a chance [...]

the Open Road

It’s incredibly disappointing really, given the immense amount of topics available to the human mind, to scan the radio from any given point between Houston and Chicago. It’s also incredibly disappointing to communicate with most of the characters one encounters on a road trip between Houston and Chicago –at least on a conversational level. [...]

Regrets Houston Style

We’re down in Houston for the majority of a month. It’s a work trip of sorts; in the sense that I have to work (a lot) while here. A list of regrets, Houston Style:

1. I really should have taken the time to get some friends to take over these Wednesday NAP posting. Volunteer [...]

the List

1 my studio mates. 5 you. 3e31 all my friends playing music far and wide. .008 my family. 18 lez zeppelin 19 led zeppelin. 8² Chicago 2/3 Houston 3/5 New York. π digital audio technology 1 tinkering…

heavy

I picked a tough time to enter post as my head is heavy and the pain in my palm deep. But I’ll run with it because that’s all I got for this week; as the week in general weighs heavy on my back.

Chicago is cold – although that hasn’t bothered me even with [...]

Chicago

We’ve lived in Chicago now for over nine years and I finally feel fully assimilated. Temperatures in the teens this past week were almost welcome. It was a long warm Summer and Fall, I was ready for the snow and ice.

Chicago folks are damn resilient when it comes to snow and ice. I [...]

Everything and Anything

I’ve never felt that there is more to do all at once than I do right now. One thing I would like to do is change further the definition of hearing music. Well that’s not right technically since all definitions of “to hear” that I could find specifically refer to the ear.

Speaking of [...]

In which I don’t talk about Lucky Dragons although their use of technology intriques me

Plastic Crimewave writes/draws a regular feature in the Chicago Reader called the Secret History of Chicago Music (an idea that should be emulated elsewhere). This week he featured Algebra Suicide. It sent me down memory lane which doesn’t always put a smile on my face but in this case it did.

I don’t think [...]

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Developer

The word developer sitting there alone nested under the begin, hopefully shakes itself of its less appealing space wrecking aura. It is what I am, under the capacity of role or sometimes title, in the filling out of endless forms.

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It looks better [...]