Fluid Piano

Rethinking the keyboard - a piano with microtonal capabilities.

Favorite movies of the decade

No particular order.

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3. (except, you know, the real movies)

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probably missing many... may be updated

Resolution

I've been living the lushlife recently..

switching the playlist with my best of the decade mix. Hopefully most of the songs will play for you.

(note - creating a lala account takes about five minutes, and the service is far superior to and cheaper than itunes. Plus you can listen to the songs I put in the media player thingy to the right.)

edit - Lala is being shut down; I'll be looking for different way to post music on this blog

Season's Greetings

It's about time I updated this thing...

Here's a wintery poem to warm your hearts, from the medieval Japanese poet Izumi Shikibu:

It is the time of rain and snow 

I spend sleepless nights 

And watch the frost 

Frail as your love 

Gathers in the dawn.

Fun fact: Salvatore Sciarrino, a prominent Italian composer, wrote da gelo a gelo (frost to frost), based on a year's worth of Shikibu's poetry. Apparently, BFM in Geneva put on the opera last season, so keep your eyes peeled for a stateside production.

Props to Marco Brianza for the link. Check out his work!

Traversing the Urban Jungle

Digital wildlife take back the streets.

also check out the new and improved guard dog

BLK JKS

Straight from Cape Town, S. Africa - BLK JKS just released their first full length.  You can find the streaming version here.

I've been loving their single "Lakeside" ever since it drifted down to me from the Seattle airwaves.  The band is currently touring; check them out if you can.  Enjoy the precious remaining weeks of summer!

Tonight's prayer

O Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie,

gimme a break before I die:

grant me wisdom, will, & wit,

purity, probity, pluck, & grit.

Trustworthy, loyal, helpful, kind,

gimme great abs & a steel-trap mind,

and forgive, Ye Gods, some humble advice-

these litle blessings would suffice

to beget an earthly paradise:

make the bad people good-

and the good people nice;

and before our world goes over the brink,

teach the believers how to think.

-Philip Appleman