One of my favorite movies is The Red Violin [wiki, imdb]. It’s an exquisitely told tale of a haunting and perfect violin with a mysterious quality that enchants various possessors over centuries and continents to eventually end up in the hands of Samuel “Snakes on a Plane” Jackson in modern day Montréal. Wonderfully [...]
Some say it of kindergarten or nursery school or whatever (you’ve seen the posters)… I say it of Tolkien. Yes, everything I ever needed to know I learned from The Lord of the Rings. [well, almost]
I learned that bands of elves, half-lings, dwarves, wizards, rangers, and warriors aren’t just for Dungeons & Dragons [...]
Various post followups and afterthoughts…
WordPress Theme - Thin Green Line :: I released version 1.1 of this Wordpress theme today. I made many, many tweaks to the cascading style and added some smarter PHP to create the navigation menu. And speaking of this new theme of mine (you know the drill)… if you [...]
This past Saint Vee had me thinkin’ about being smooth. I’m talkin’ the jazz kind of smooth… the mellow pulses of bass and brushes with splashes of guitar and piano (and even horn). My boy Chuck Mangione has always comes through for me, but there are a slew of others who got themselves [...]
Without further ado, here are video clips of two electric guitar solos I did during this past Friday’s coffeehouse at Grace Fellowship featuring Hundred Monkey Theory (which I posted about here and here). The picture on the right is from (and links to) the solo in Empty Handed and the one on the left [...]
guitarsenal (gi-’tär-s&n-&l) n. - the selection of axes at one’s disposal when it comes time to throw down some sonic mayhem; typically does not possess a forseen upper limit in size.
While I’m on the topic (and since I just introduced everyone to a new word) I figured I might as well add some pictures of [...]
The Hundred Monkey Theory gig tonight at Grace Fellowship Church went very well! I have a DVD of the whole evening and will be preparing some clips for digestion by the general populace, so stay tuned. As for me, I’m tired but I’ll leave you with a cool guitar [...]
Ok, I just posted a long piece called Art, Talent, and the Tyranny of the Subjective… and it’s a good preface into this light-hearted talent fair. From the docket of political humor our friends at Expose the Left are one of many outlets that recently featured this glorious talent revelation from Janet Reno. [...]
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder… but who exactly is this mythical “they” entity anyway? Things like art and music - so easily perverted into the ethereal chaos of the subjective - can really cause engineers like me to seg fault (that’s basically a metaphorical parallel to an intellectual seizure). [...]
Recent conversations I’ve had in the blogosphere have conjured up small and peculiar facts about myself that I figured I would throw out there for the general populace to chew on. The following are little unique tidbits about me that will either bore you, impress you, scare you, or repulse you… some of which [...]
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