Tag: music
Time to get this blog rolling again
April 21st, 2010, 1 Comment
2010 got off to a good start, then I was hit by some unexpected family losses followed by some annoying family weirdness. Between that and a larger than usual assortment of extra-curricular activities, my blog got derailed. It’s time to fix that. For those who haven’t kept up with my twitter feed or photo stream, [...]
Merry Christmas
December 26th, 2008, No Comments
Another Christmas has come and gone. On Christmas Eve Susan cooked a pot roast in the traditional style I grew up with. The meat came from a small order we placed with Dominion Farms, a local organic farming operation. All their animals are fed natural diets, no hormones or antibiotics. The meat was really tasty, [...]
Jaap van Zweden at the DSO
September 17th, 2008, No Comments
On Saturday, Susan and I attended our first Dallas Symphony performance since Jaap van Zweden took over as Music Director. His conducting style is very different from Andrew Litton. Litton always seemed to be conducting a few notes ahead of the orchestra – he waved the baton and a second later you’d hear the orchestra [...]
Free Software and Free Music
July 19th, 2007, No Comments
It seems hardly a day goes by lately without reading about some new attack on the performance or sharing of music by the music industry itself. The RIAA is doing a pretty good job of destroying the legacy music industry all by itself. Their latest attempts to shut down Internet radio stations through punative licensing [...]
Kronos Quartet Brings Sun Rings to Dallas
May 14th, 2007, No Comments
Kronos Quartet played at McFarlin Auditorium in Dallas last week. I managed to get some pretty good seats for the performance and took Susan along. We’d previously seen Kronos play live in Austin with the Philip Glass ensemble a few years ago. This time they were accompanied by the Women’s Chorus of Dallas and the [...]
Recursive blogging
December 29th, 2006, No Comments
I have in front of me an Emily Bezar CD called Angel’s Abacus. How I came to have this CD is a twisted story of recursive dreams, blogging, and synchronicity. Six years ago on a summer evening, I wrote in my blog about a recursive dream I’d had. That’s a dream in which you dream [...]
If the ancient Krell had guitar solos, they’d sound like this
August 19th, 2006, No Comments
Susan and I saw Devo perform last night at the Fair Park bandshell in Dallas. It was the first time Devo had played Dallas in 16 years. They only play a few shows a year due to their TV and movie soundtrack work. The Psychadelic Furs (Pretty in Pink and one or two other 80s [...]
Coyotes in Irving, TX
January 22nd, 2006, No Comments
Wow, has it been two months since I posted anything? Time flies when you’re busy. Yesterday Susan and I were driving out to Home Depot to buy a new lawn mower when we spotted a Coyote wandering along near Highway 161 (in Irving, TX). I had a camera with me but it didn’t have a [...]
