26 April 2009
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Yesterday Blaise and I headed over to Bonny B. Browns recently opened blues club for a first evening of open stage jamming.
If you have a warped mind like mine and that makes you imagine musicians climbing over, biting and bashing each other with their instruments for a place on the stage and holding their ground, playing as long as possible…
24 April 2009
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I had somewhat figured out that you could change the pitch of the bones because now that I have 2 similar pairs of bones I was intrigued at how hard it was to get the same pitch from both hands. My left hand always sounds higher regardless of which bones I’m using. LOL
Because of that I’ve made good progress with simply finding how I prefer to hold them but remain in awe with all the great rhythms shown here!
22 April 2009
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The root
of the tooth
exploded… 
16 April 2009
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After a few “Spring Break” days spent with my folks, here I am back frying my brain with CTR screen radiations…
9 April 2009
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Here’s a little sketch from last year. The train had stopped at a station (Aarau if I remember right), so I had a minute to draw this kid who was in a train going in the opposite direction. He was all up in green military dress and was sitting, knapsack on his knees, in the space in front of the doors instead of in the compartment with seats. He didn’t look too happy about going off and “serving” the country and it makes you wonder since there are now ways of avoiding it if you really want to…
7 April 2009
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A truly amazing thing has happened this month: public spaces all became non smoking overnight! I was sure that this area would continue to let folks smoke everywhere until the end of time, just two years ago a local restaurant manager was booed out of her job for just thinking such a thing…
But with the help of lovely spring weather there we where Dave and I, in a corner cafe that was packed both in and outside enjoying a glass of wine…
18 March 2009
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A friend sent me this link to an article about how mp3’s are changing the way we hear: The Sizzling Sound of Music. I say we, but admit to having no love of the mp3 format which sound flat, dull and compressed, especially if you compare it to a good LP. Yes, an actual vinyl record, exactly. I admit, I own quite a few of them, many bought back then when stores where making space for the all new “super sounding” compact disk. Thank you Mr. Cd!…