Friday, December 30, 2005

Extraordinarily ordinary

December 27 is when we start to go back to normal. Christmas has come and gone, presents returned, visitors start to think about going back home. So on this first day of the return to the ordinary, I recorded people who came to my kitchen table. Local musician and former student, Ben Moffat, stops by. We play some music and record other musings. My own kids get interviewed (they have no choice, what can I say?) All in all, it's just an ordinary day in my kitchen. But I think there's a little bit of the extraordinary in the ordinary.

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Thursday, September 29, 2005

Live for You audio essay

Living for others is the key to happiness. Here's an essay and song that attempt to explain what I'm talking about.

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What Lovers Want

One hobby I have is playing music with my buddies. Here's a song that Ben Moffat, Zack Sloan and I recorded not so long ago. The song attempts to address the communication issues between men and women. I used Audacity to take out some of the background noise. If you listen closely during the first few seconds, now the noise sounds like some aliens are trying to make contact....

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