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A blindfold test and a new composition
Check out this interview and music listening quiz I did with writer Chris Becker on his substack, Night and Day. We cover Tangerine Dream, Tricky, Bill Evans, George Duke…
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Drawing and Procreate
The gift of an Apple Pencil spawned a new hobby.
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Linda the Butterfly
A Monarch story
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Engines Guest Episode
No pressure, but can you, a complete radio novice, write and record a tribute episode for your dad that will air nationally?
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Quarantine World
Mid May. The world has shutdown. We’re locked in our pods. Got a text from my friend, singer Danielle Reich, about doing a remote duet. We settled on the…
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An Unearthed Journal Joins Social Media
A lost journal discovered. The fates of books. The fate of fate.
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Brain Drains
Learn, forget, learn, repeat
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Brain Gains
A few years ago, I stumbled on a free online course from Yale University called The American Novel Since 1942, a self-paced, semester-long study of the so-called Great American…
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Oregon
My family travels into two rental cars across Oregon. What a state. The place is nice too.
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The Orgo Experience
It's Wednesday, 5pm, and I'm nervously awaiting my grade in Organic Chemistry, the class I've been quietly suffering through since January. I've been getting anxious, speculative texts from classmates…
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Houston Rap, The Book
On the Walker/Beste book, "Houston Rap"
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No Rhyme, No Reason: Farewell, George Duke
We all have our idols and today one of mine fell. George Duke, the veteran pianist, producer, and songwriter, passed away last night in Los Angeles at the age…
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Quarters and Ariel
Idle hands, idle brains.
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Leonard(o) on the Move
A chunk of Limestone, Leonardo Da Vinci, Underwood typewriters, Latin, David Benioff, Sunsets.
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Cloud Shmoud
Spent today immersed in the software side of social media and mobile. Very timely stuff of course, though I couldn't get as excited as everyone else about putting web…
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Manolo
Last night we ditched a planned movie outing to go wandering through the Galleria. The appeal of the Apple Store is always great, and yet it always disappoints. There,…
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The Zachary Breaux Jazz Fest (Jazz Where Least Expected)
Many years ago, guitarist Zachary Breaux took a vacation with his wife and three daughters to the sandy beaches of Florida. As they meandered along the shore the group…
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The Bufos are Back
It’s late spring and the toads have returned. Every April thousands of breeding-obsessed amphibians invade our neighborhood for an extended game of Where’s-the-tadpole? These fat little lumps, better known as the…
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For the Love of You, ARP 2600
It’s my sad confession. I once had a crush on a machine. I was an impressionable teenager and the ARP 2600 was my pinup girl. I loved this thing…
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Wide-Awake in the Hotel
Tonight I sit upright in a hotel in Austin, wide-awake after sleeping during the gloaming and eating obscene amounts of pasta hours later. It could have gone differently. I…
