Pure Imagination

Good News

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I broke out the clarinet for a few minutes today. Apparently, I’ve still got it in me. I’ll need to practice a bit to get my chops back, but I like the idea of getting back into music.

Late Night Update

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I should be asleep right now, but I am not. I borrowed Darren‘s external sound card so I could digitize a whole bunch of audio cassettes I’ve had lying around. I found some interesting things including some musical arrangements I did while I was in college. I put them online on my other website (the one with my real name). So go there and look in the “Projects” area.

I also found some recordings of me that are not fit for public consumption. They’re very interesting however; I have an “early demo” tape of a song I wrote about Conan O’Brien performed by myself on electric guitar, Darren on bass(!), Bryan on trumpet, and M-D on… umm… announcement.

Dar Williams

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Dar is playing in the Bowery Ballroom in New York on February 18, the day her new album will be released. I’m undecided. Also, her website was redesigned in December, and it’s a great improvement. Finally.

Turning, Turning

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When you get to the top of an escalator, do you ever get that feeling you don’t want to step off? Do you ever wonder what would happen, where you would go? Sometimes I imagine you would just fall on your face, but there has to be something else to it.

I need a change of scenery.

Addendum: I have learned to be skeptical of Fast Company. In the past, their writers have often taken view points that just didn’t make sense to me. They are starting to change though. Go read this article. It’s been linked a bit by other webloggers, but I didn’t read it until this morning.

What Drum Corps Is About

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Drum Corps Chick Talks About Showering with Other Drum Corps Chicks.

Having never showered in the locker rooms in high school, drum corps was a change for me in that I suddenly had to be naked in front of other guys if I wanted to remain somewhat kempt throughout the hot, sweaty summer. Over time you just learn to get past any insecurities. You also learn how to make the most out of cold showers — there was never enough hot water for 200 people.

Memorable Quote

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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was on television yesterday, as many other bloggers have pointed out. Thus I present a poem briefly quoted by Wonka towards the end of the film:

We are the music-makers,
And the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and the shakers
Of the world forever, it seems.

– Arthur O’Shaughnessy, Ode

There’s more to this poem, and it’s highly suggested reading. Beautiful poetry.