The art of memorial.
My father is home from a recent trip Back East. He’s posted pictures of the New York area, and his posts are worth looking at. There is one series in particular that I keep going ...
Art
A new artist to watch.
My mother shared with me an amazing video on translating the wooden art of the Tlingit to glass. This has lead me to add a new artist to my watch-list. When you have the time, ...
Lou Reed
When I was in college, a group of us were looking at influences on the music that influenced us. Velvet Underground kept on appearing over and over. The joke became that they were the most ...
Relearning old songs
Sometimes you hear something about the creative process that completely changes your relationship to, and understanding of, a piece of art. Doc. Pomus wrote an amazing number of songs. You know some of them, even ...
Tonight’s random lesson learned from putting the iPod on shuffle. The baseline for Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters” is essentially the same as the baseline for Loreena McKennitt’s “Lady of Shallot.” This probably explains why both ...
Pirate Pub Crawl
2 vignettes came from the walk from work to my car through the Pirate Pub Crawl. 1) A busker singing “Folsom Prison Blues” in an over-the-top Disney “Pirates of the Caribbean” accent (“I stabbed a ...
Lighting the Sky
We are getting to the magical time of year. Ice crystals form in the air, and create effects with lights that I understand rationally, but can’t grasp on any other level. Last night there was ...