February 2012
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Uncle Tar's Hot Sauce
My friend Eric Tate (Musician, Producer/Engineer, Chef) celebrates his birthday today. In honor of this event I will again ritualistically burn the crap out of my mouth with the indescribably delicious “Uncle Tar’s Hot Sauce” that he made for us for Christmas. Ooouch!!! Yuuuum!!!
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Nice one for Mr. Lott and Y-Music. New York Times. Their show is Wednesday!
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/arts/music/ymusic-to-bring-its-versatility-to-ecstatic-music-festival.html
January 2012
27 posts
Paraglider
I just saw one float over me as I drove East Rock Road. Now that was unexpected - here in the city.
Letter from an ex-slave to his old master →
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ladyatheist:
Definitely worth the read.
definitely needed to read this.
Quiet Please - Unleashing The Power Of Introverts...
On the culture of character vs. the culture of personality
“To some extent, we’ve always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at the turn of the 20th century when we had the rise of big business. Suddenly, people were flocking to the cities, and they were needing to prove themselves in big corporations, at job interviews and...
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Looper Scoring Sessions, San Francisco
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Ryan Lott on the piano. Literally.
This is, I believe, the first actual audio from the score to be posted. Not that you’ll be able to tell when you hear it in the film, but still.
We’re in a big fancy studio on a nice piano, but really, we’re not that far off from how we made Brick.
Yes. This.
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It’s Saturday night
Alone at the sushi bar
Just me and this eel.
- Billy Collins
(from memory, and appropriate for this evening)
My schedule for today:
8:30am - Breakfast
9:05am - shower
9:35am - work on Sxip Shirey music for Joe’s Pub
11:40 - clean chicken’s butt
12:00 - listen to the newly mastered Faux Fix album (holy crap it’s awesome!!!)
1:30 - lunch
1:55 - chart out I Believe In You, from the musical How To Succeed In Business
2:30 - teach students
6:00pm - make chicken soup with Desirea...
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(Why I hate) The New York Times
Because you do such a shitty job of making people aware of what you do. You’ve got video stories better than most news organizations but you don’t let anybody know and keep complaining that no one’s buying your newspaper. Didn’t Steve Jobs teach you that the Internet era is all about dominance? Stop fighting with one hand behind your back....
