Archive of October 2005
Self Promotion.
It’s not that I have anything against self-promotion; I’m simply not very good at it. If I had my way, everybody on the web would read my blog and listen to my music. I’ve just never been particularly good at getting the word out there. But I thought some of you might like to know that the first of the reviews I’ll be writing have appeared at http://metalreview.com.
These Talking Machines
These talking machines are going to ruin the artistic development of music in this country. When I was a boy … in front of every house in the summer evenings, you would find young people together singing the songs of the day or old songs. Today you hear these infernal machines going night and day. We will not have a vocal cord left. The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.
John Philip Souza, 1906
Steve Jackson, Steve Reich, and Me
For the past several days I’ve been on something of an RPG jag. Well, I should say more correctly an RPG nostalgia jag. I haven’t played any pencil and paper RPG in years, and I wouldn’t have anyone to play with even if I started again. Read More »
