Tag: music

I’m not a huge Phish head but I really like some of their material and I love their whole approach to making live improvised rock ‘n’ roll together. They also share some contemporaneous New Jersey-in-the-mid-’80s experiences with me in their origin stories (the Rhombus, the miniature guitars, the strange period in 1985 where the Dead…

Still behind on taking notes, but here are my photos from Saturday.

I’ll post my notes later, but for now here’s a photo album.

If I hadn’t been so ragged out B and I could have stayed for more than the first four Mekons songs at the Starry Pluff in Berkeley last night, but what I heard sounded fantastic. I said to B, “What they’ve retained of the punk aesthetic is the ‘no wanking’ rule.” Everything was spare and…

My guitar was too hard to learn on. I took it the Thin Man music store in Alameda and the dude there to restring it with lightweight strings and lower the action for me. I also bought this beautiful tenor ukulele for $75 because I figure that will also be much much easier to learn…

The personal expression platform wants to do sound and it wants to do pictures and it’s going to want to do motion capture eventually but right now it just wants to be able to sing, recontextualize, and join the great chorus of call and response. So, to sound. Cecil writes music, sings, plays guitar, and…