NONALIGNMENT PACT

Hi strangers. Hope you’ve been doing well. I pop in and out, not as in as often as I like. Things have been busy. Wednesday, I still have music to send you. It’s like that. I am working on it.

I am currently based out of Dunedin, working on a show about the toque macaque monkeys of [...]

This is my last regular post for the Nonalignment Pact. It’s been a good run, but it’s probably been obvious for the last couple months that the well is running dry in all senses: my reservoirs of time, ideas, passion, and inspiration. So it’s time to step down and let some fresh blood in.

Perhaps my [...]

So Saturday was music appreciation night in Auckland. Perhaps that phrase should be capitalized, as it refers to a recurring event, pioneered by my flatmate, wherein several folk bring music to play for others based around a theme. Each person gets a turn to play a track, and the rotation continues as long as the night [...]

Like all right-thinking people, I was saddened by the premature death of Robert Moog. For so many of us, I brazenly like to think, Moog is synonymous with not just a sound but a sensibility, a sensibility best described as being at the point in a Venn diagram where the circles of Music, Science, Fun, and [...]

So the music/travel show I’ve been working on for the last three months has finally started going to air. And thanks to the miracles of the InterBot, you can watch the first episode, should you care, here. (Or so it claims. Haven’t tried it yet.) It’s set in Brazil. On Wednesday the second episode goes [...]

In honor of my laptop being stolen hours ago when my house was broken into, I’m not posting today. If somebody wants to, run with it.

If the sine wave continues to oscillate like this, next week will be [...]

I am roughly as happy this week as I was unhappy last week, despite not having any more time to do much or even read the last few days of posts (much less comments).

I did the 48HOURS filmmaking challenge this weekend as director, co-producer, and co-writer. Our group, consisting of everybody from friends from my earliest [...]

I just got home from work and am writing in Lucida Grande in honor of it being the default font in Final Cut Pro. I have to be back to work in nine hours so I am going to type for ten minutes and see where it takes us. I had a much longer structured post [...]

All I have to say this week is that I discovered the band Baseball after someone described them as a cross between McLusky and Dirty Three. That’s not quite right but it’s getting there, and if that’s an intuitively awesome combination for you (like it is for me) then you should definitely enjoy the tunes on [...]