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This was posted on GuitarGeek today: A thesis on My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless.
I haven’t taken a look at it yet, but the abstract shows it traces the origins of shoegazer bands and talks about some of the reasons why MBV is “one one of the most important bands in music history”.
I plan on writing a [...]

Arrgh. Wordpress is going all buggy on me, so I apologize for the repost.
Labrador video is up on YouTube, but I’m not happy with the quality so I’m gonna reconvert it when I get home. For the time being, please enjoy this mp4 version available here. (23 megs)

I’ve been spending a lot of time lately looking over the wonderful cello.org site. Lots of wonderful articles and tips and interviews.
I just discovered the “Cellists by Night” forum in cello.org, which is great, because it covers adult beginners.  I don’t feel so alone about starting late.  There’s a lot of adults who started even [...]

My friend Paul and I just finished our video for this quarterly Listening party held by Paint and Copter called Hexasion. Basically, they give a number of local and worldwide artists an opportunity to develop an audio/video project. The next one is September 23 at the Portland Art Center (more details on their [...]

Well, I had my first lesson yesterday. It was definitely exciting. I may start a separate blog about my misadventures with learning the cello, but I’d like to ask my teacher if it’s okay before I start. It will probably be separate from this blog.
I have been reading The cambridge companion to [...]

My friend Adam just sent me links to his bud Daedulus’ new videos. They’re all really great and testament to the power of what you can do in a video on a limited budget.
This one should be of interest to gear heads. You can see a Daedulus’ performance in high speed and some [...]