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Jan

Defensible Lyrics 2

in Blog, Just For Fun

This is the long-time-coming-but-not-necessarily-long-awaited second entry in my "Defensible Lyrics" series of blog posts, wherein I cite lyrics that I find to be -- you guessed it -- defensible. The first post can be found here. The lyrics included in this particular post are all thematical[...]

Nov

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).[...]

Oct

Draft Pick

in Blog, Just For Fun

I was looking through my folder of blog ideas this morning in an effort to find something awesome to develop into a new post* and came across an old entry entitled “Musicians from Another Planet,” the content of which consisted of the below, utterly incomplete list.

Sep

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.

Jul

Joel in the Typing Pool

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Note: Just to be completely up-front so we don’t have a recreation of last-blog-post’s disappointment: At no time did I or am I planning to record a version of “What’s Up?” by 4 Non Blondes.

Jun

The actual helping hand of my pal Scott.

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.

May

An Open Customer Complaint to the AMC Assembly Row 12 Movie Theatre

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Hi there, AMC.

I attended a screening of Avengers: Age of Ultron in theater* seven of the AMC Assembly Row 12 movie theatre this past Sunday at 4:45pm.

Mar

Pride Comes Before the Fall

in Blog, Just For Fun tags: girl falls

I added music to one of my all-time favorite Internet videos.

Mar

My Friend Kevin

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Kevin Micka: The Self-Contained Collaborator I met Kevin Micka in the early-to-mid-1990s in Connecticut. He had made the trip down from Newton, MA to Hartford where he was practicing with a band fronted by a mutual friend. I happened to be at the mutual friend's house hanging out when Kevin a[...]

Feb

My Friend BJ

in Blog, Friendship, Just For Fun, Total Friendship

Here’s a story about my friend BJ, which I’ll call: BJ Warshaw and How Life Works SometimesI met BJ while living in Brooklyn, NY in the year 2000. We were both music/band-people and we met through other, mutual music/band-people-friends. Fifteen years later, BJ is still a mus[...]