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I give up… how DO you record a show…
… with the microphone turned the wrong way? My unheralded post of 7 April included a tidbit in the first paragraph that I had played a show (it was Gilo’s in East Hartford with the Steve Montano Band) and recorded … Continue reading
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This thing isn’t on… is it?
So, m’kay, I’ve been having a bitch of a time posting anything to my blog at MySpace under any circumstances. I wanted to rant and rave about the show I recorded the other night– with the microphone turned the wrong … Continue reading
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I missed my birthday!
OK, not my birthday, but the first anniversary of this blog’s first post. In that time I’ve changed the name of it three times and had to migrate the poorly-read opinions and observations twice in order to reflect project name … Continue reading
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Oh yeah, huh, I have a life too
I’ve been hanging out at Panera Bread quite a lot lately, in part because the aforementioned Chicken Pomodoro on Sesame Semolina Panini bread is to die for, in part because they offer free soda refills, and in part because they … Continue reading
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A “novelty sideshow”– or…?
http://thenewcube.blogspot.com/2007/05/cake-or-death.html Jem Godfrey, driving force behind Frost* (the album Milliontown is perhaps my favorite 2006 release, maybe even of the last five years) holds forth on music, piracy, prog rock, and treading water. As always when he gets his mad … Continue reading
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Soon, for your listening pleasure…
Having just discovered the 10MB limit on MP3s at MySpace, I now need to go and re-encode the four Luminous City tracks I had planned to upload in order to fit. That’ll happen later tonight. And here I was, all … Continue reading
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Put it there pal!
Having discovered all th0se other Fulcrums out on Myspace (this was before I opted not to maintain a presence there), I went ahead and changed the name of my project to Son et Lumiere, and almost immediately came to regret … Continue reading
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CAPE: listen now
The songs were posted last Saturday and I completely forgot that I promised to provide a link to them when they did. I have got to say that this might be the strongest batch of songs yet. Twenty teams got … Continue reading
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Yeah, I know
I’ve been scarce. The reason is that I’ve been looking for work. Just minutes after my last post here on May 31 (not the one I just posted) I got an e-mail from my contract company telling me that my … Continue reading
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CAPE is done
And I’m pleased with my team’s (and my) work on it. Everyone brought good ideas to the table, and everyone executed. The Big Reveal was supposed to be today, but the guy who is doing the mastering for our team … Continue reading
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Luminous City: Son of me and Machiavelli
I would hate to think so. It seemed to me that the interest was simply no longer there, or rather that no one else shared my ongoing enthusiasm for the project. If that happened to be true, or if I … Continue reading
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Luminous City: Me and Machiavelli
I had resolved that I wasn’t going to write any more about the album until I had some form of distribution lined up. As far as that goes I’m still looking at Tunecore but am also considering CD Baby on … Continue reading
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Cycles
Maybe there is no relationship. Maybe I’m just waiting for the caffeine to kick in. I wondered if having that NY&CH album in my head all day long for a soundtrack wouldn’t be a hassle. Not really, it’s been quiet … Continue reading
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Re – ak – tor
I’m in search of a correlation between these two occurrences of the term in my private cranial relational database. I actually quite liked that Neil Young album when it came out. I guess in retrospect it wasn’t a disappointment in … Continue reading
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Luminous City: Not much else to tell
Really. I spent the next three or so years rebooting Win 98 SE every time the graphics interface got confused and froze my machine, and intermittently getting work done and cursing the fact that I could not automate my fader … Continue reading
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Current Project Status
The CAPE team is proceeding at a leisurely pace. We lost one member to a new job, and I can’t say I don’t know what it’s like to get a new job and devote yourself to learning it, at the … Continue reading
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Luminous City: Anybody got a GPS?
Oh, if only a GPS existed back in 1996. If only one existed now that could help you find your way out of internal disillusion back to emotional well-being. I posted a few days ago about having had the “living … Continue reading
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When they do it, I’m never there
I find myself strangely unmoved by the fact that the “classic” three-man Genesis lineup have reformed and are touring this year and possibly next. Genesis were an abiding musical passion for rather a long time in my musical development, ascending … Continue reading
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Luminous City: false starts and false hopes
It wasn’t long afterward that the jazz-influenced guitarist with whom I had recently begun to work had managed to convince me that I was being held back by the drummer’s attitude. Internally, I reasoned that she had always had carte … Continue reading
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Luminous City: 7-Year-Old Girl Gives Birth To 14-Year-Old Boy!
Two weeks ago or so I wrote this about the imminent completion of the Luminous City album: I feel like I lost a few people along the way and may yet lose others, and I would like to examine whether … Continue reading
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Exactly the wrong time to start a blog
I should have seen this coming. A couple of days ago I mentioned CAPE. That’s starting to take my life over, now that I’ve also gotten into the routine of guitar classes on Mondays and hatha yoga on Tuesdays. Choir … Continue reading
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And I really will try to stop saying “hi ho” all the time
Obscure references to Vonnegut aside, I’m sure no one has particularly missed the fact that I haven’t been posting very much over the last couple of days. Been trying to get myself up to speed on POV-ray to see whether … Continue reading
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Luminous City: building 55 minutes in a dozen years
I’ve been telling myself for the last couple of weeks now that Scenes From A Luminous City, Fulcrum’s first album, is 99% complete. The first thing holding me back from signing off on it is the packaging. I’ve got the … Continue reading
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Sometimes a tunnel
… is just a tunnel. And sometimes it ties in to other things. This blog used to be presented on one of the other stock presentation templates here at WordPress, the one with the tunnel under fluorescent lights (which gave … Continue reading
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