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My old backyard in Brooklyn underwent a little cosmetic surgery. Apparently in a few months time there will be a new highrise in place shadowing over the yard, blocking the afternoon sun and destroying the quiet privacy of that little alcove of backyards. Guess it’s nothing new.
Recorded a very rough version of a song over Xmas break. Lots of flubs and mishaps in recording, plus synth approximations where a cellist and percussionist should be… but other than that a nice little sketch of a song. I feel good about it. The MP3 is here. More to come.
John Dowland was a lutenist and composer in Elizabethan England. His story is rather interesting, and the many works he left behind are still available.
His biggest success, a series of tunes called the Lachrimae–literally “tears”–(a sample of which can be heard here), was composed in the late 16th Century. It is […]
Splogs have been around for awhile, but recent developments in splog technology have caused a splogsplosion of splog neologisms and catch phrases, adding to the growing list of related terms such as Spamalanche, Google Bombing, Spamdexing, Link Farming, Scraper Sites, Click Fraud, and Spim. These new terms can be refered to as WMDs (words […]
Cecil Kleakins is an eccentric academic known for appreciating noise, researching invisible topics, and taking long baths. When he is not feeding grapes to his leopards, he adores a finely crafted claret and, like the Duke of Burgundy, Philiip the Bold, disdains the ignoble Gamay.
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