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Acoustic Album: A Segment of Truth

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This album is a pet project of mine. In the summer of 2008, I came to a realization about myself: I am not the quintessential singer/songwriter.

Growing up, I always thought I'd record some epic album of music that people would play on the radio everywhere; obviously this was grandious leftovers of childhood entertainment and self-importance. Making it big in popular music is a hard business, and I never stopped to realize: that's not what would make me happy.

Somewhere between my exit from college and induction into adult life, I also realized that simply strumming standard chords and playing in 4/8 is for people who don't truely want to find their inner voice in guitar. Unfortunately, this was the outcome of hanging out with arrogant wannabes.

I kept on playing privately, for my own enjoyment, however I found that I forget what I play if I don't record it. If this can be done with words, say in a book, I could do this from my computer at home in the moments I wanted. Nothing had to be forced or derived. I hate the crap they play on the radio; I only listen to WBUR public radio if at all.

This music is the kind of music that's playing in my head all day long anyway, so I thought I'd record it and see what happens. It's all done with a Shure SM57 unidirectional mic, my Seagull cutout, and free audio software called Audacity.

This is how I like to spend my spare time.
 

Friday, September 24, 2010

Altered States: Needs More Cheese

Wow, just watched one of the backlog of movies on my Netflix queue last night. Lots of J. Walker plus horrible 80's psycho-drama makes for very interesting dreams thereafter.

I had queued this one up because I'm a big fan of William Hurt. It could have been a very interesting view into the early life of the same actor that starred in such screen oddities as Door in the Floor, Children of a Lesser God, Dark City, and Artificial Intelligence: AI.

But boy, I was expecting something like American Grafiti; what I got was home-made Doctor Who.

The special effects in Altered States is remenicent of a bad Doors video, lizards morphing into naked women, a room where primortial soup spirals to a center drain, and then there's the ape-man sequence.

This movie hit every branch on the way down.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080360/


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnie_Walker

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