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Nov
03

Working for Exposure

in Hard Bloggin', Work
Musicians and composers are constantly being asked to work for “exposure” and/or “publicity” and my thoughts on that situation have really changed over the years. Just, up front here, what this post is not about are collaborative situations wherein people don’t have any sort of meaningf[...]
May
18

AI and Me and You and The Beatles

in Blog, Friendship, Hard Bloggin', Total Friendship, Work, Workshop tags: AI, computers, documentary, Music, podcast
On May 7th, I received an email from my friend, Ryan Walsh asking me if I had any thoughts on this article for a piece he was writing for Stereogum. The good news was that I definitely had thoughts; the bad new was that I had ten-jillion of them, which, of course, is just too many thoughts for a [...]
Apr
10

Anatomy of a Fun-rangement

in Actual News, Blog, Hard Bloggin', Just For Fun tags: Civil War, electronic, EP, fun

Today, I’m releasing the EP Domain Vol. 2 (Electronic Fun-rangements of Civil War Songs), my second and probably/maybe final EP of Civil War songs.

Jul
26

EP Number 3

in Actual News, Blog, Hard Bloggin' tags: Civil War, electronic, EP, fun

Today, I’m releasing the third EP in what has been a July of EP releases.

Jun
27

Let’s Talk About Love

in Blog, Friendship, Hard Bloggin', Just For Fun, Total Friendship tags: Foreigner, Jordyn Bonds, precociousness, V

I think it’s fair to say that each of us can look back on our childhood(s) and remember times when we did our dang best to make sense of something, but, due to our limited understanding and experience with the world, just couldn’t put the pieces together correctly.

Feb
24

Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby

in Blog, Hard Bloggin', Just For Fun tags: capo, composing, Guitar, rosemary's baby

I feel like it’s fair to say that I roll deeper with Rosemary’s Baby than I do with possibly any other film that DIDN’T depict events taking place on Saturday, March 4th, 1984 at Shermer High School in Shermer, Illinois (60062).

Nov
22

If You Start Me Up I’ll Never Stop

in Blog, Hard Bloggin', Just For Fun tags: composing, engraving, notation, Sibelius
Background Sibelius, apart from being the name of a steroidally self-critical composer, is a music engraving/notation computer software product. It's used by over a jillion people every day and is an extra-vital part of my particular music-creating process (or, say, Alphabet Song transcribing). [...]
Sep
01

Parental Guidance is Suggested

in Blog, Hard Bloggin', Just For Fun tags: action film, film scoring, Frenching, thriller, trailer

For years, I’ve maintained a list of personally-authored, would-be Facebook status-updates that, in a perfect world, I’d LIKE to post, but due to there actually being social consequences for the things we say and do, I don’t.

Jun
10

Me and “Me and Bobby McGee”

in Blog, Hard Bloggin', Just For Fun, Total Friendship

I don’t consider myself to be a Janis Joplin fan. I don’t dislike Janis Joplin; I just kind of don’t really consider her. The only reason she’s even on my musical radar is that I’m a Willie Nelson fan, which means that I’m ambiently aware of Kris Kristofferson and Kris Kristofferson wrote “Me and Bobby McGee,” a version of which was, of course, sung by Janis Joplin.

Oct
14

The Case for Adding Two Beats to the Alphabet Song

in Blog, Hard Bloggin', Just For Fun
You can also read this post on medium.com. Let's talk about the first half of the American English version of "The Alphabet Song" for a minute. This is the iconic tune which, for many/most of us, was our first introduction to the foundational building-blocks of the English language. Th[...]