Category: Music
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carry that water of love to me
Got on a Dire Straits kick recently and started teaching myself to play “Water of Love,” one of their first hits. Here is a sort demo mixdown of a draft arrangement (experimenting with a new way to embed audio):
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Creampuff Trainwreck
Source: Youtube
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Bertha – still working out the kinks – but raucous
Source: Youtube
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I know a little something
Before applying the electrodes to the heart of the typewriter yesterday my last post here was about an experiment I started last July of posting videos of myself playing and singing songs to YouTube. That’s really where my “blogging” energy has been since then, as I have built of quite a body of performances. It’s…
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This ain’t no cocktail you buy in a bar
One of the songs I’ve been playing the longest with the Reuben Kincaid is an original by Ceil Vortex about prison booze called “Pruno”…
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Must-share flotsam: Dylan and the Band live
For your listening pleasure, this Bob Dylan and The Band 1969-1970 Compilation DVD:
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stump the chumps
what’s the difference between a duck? – Wolfram|Alpha Originally uploaded by xian ok – trick questions are no fair, but hire someone with a sense of humor and load it up with snappy answers, yo.
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When it comes to thinking, bigger really is better
Michael Port, author of a number of bestselling sales-guru business books, has now come out with a pocket volume called The Think Big Manifesto: Think You Can’t Change Your Life (and the World?) Think Again. I like the arresting graphic design of the book (a publicist sent me an advance copy) but was somewhat wary…
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The perfect pink margarita
*as promised via twitter:* Serves 6: 7 limes 1 blood orange 4 mandarin oranges (medium sized) 1 pink grapefruit 8 fl.oz. Patron reposado 6 fl.oz. Cointreau (or Patron Citronge or any decent triple sec) rock salt table salt 3 ice trays of cubes 1. Put six cocktail glasses in the freezer to chill. 2. Reserve…
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Building my sxsw schedule
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Invincibility overrated
Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman My review rating: 4 of 5 starsSomething Jonathan Lethem might have cooked up after watching all three seasons of the Venture Brothers while perusing the Watchmen graphic novel. I enjoyed it! View all my reviews.
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unbook, that's the word I was looking for
Dave Gray articulates clearly some ideas I’ve been wrestling with about writing, publishing, bookmaking, the web, and social collaboration: The unbook View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: books book)
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Too risky!
Looks like Jay Smooth has decoded the McCain ad strategy: (via Vivirlatino via Jenternational)
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Get Your War On says time for us to come together
to kill all the bankers and steal their money: