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I’ve been experimenting with grow lights. I have been growing peppers for several years, and each year is an improvement over the way I had done things previously. This year, I decided to start the pepper species that are not capsicum annuum very early, since they seem to need a longer growing season. Then, almost […]
Today I learned that Bananarama and Nirvana ripped off Shocking Blue, not the other way around. I grew up in the 80s, so of course Bananarama’s version of “Venus” is the one I was familiar with. I didn’t know there was another version, and at that time I didn’t even know popular recording artists got […]
Well, my earlier misgivings about Longmire have been surpassed by the unfolding story and its depth. The build-up of season two was quite good in setting up several layers of suspense, and the finale was excellent. Each season after that contained a wonderfully evolving story. They’ve still made a gaping mistake here and there (don’t […]
Oh, this is frustrating. I buy my music from iTunes. This started when I had an iPhone, and even though I no longer have an iPhone, I find iTunes to be the easiest way to find new music and buy it. Consequently, most of my music is stored in .m4a files, which is an MPEG-4 […]
When I was young, I was insulated from “rock and roll” music. My father strongly disliked it (and still does). More importantly, I grew up in a fundamentalist religion, and I was lead to believe that it was sinful. I just wasn’t exposed to it, and I was less-than-subtly discouraged from embracing it. However, I […]
Once upon a time, I bought Pro Tools, which is software for recording and making music electronically. I spent a lot of money on it, and when I got it home, I discovered that it won’t even work with a sound card. (It can, with a piece of software that emulates an ASIO driver, but […]
I have photographed numerous bands on stage, and it took a while for me to develop the skill. This is a summary of what I’ve learned. I hope it will be useful to others who want to produce good photos of bands performing live on stage. There are three basic challenges to overcome: Bands Perform […]
In some ways, I have a strong sense for music, and I am fairly clueless in other ways. For example, there is always music in my head, running in the background, often unnoticed. I have fairly broad musical tastes. On the other hand, I usually don’t pay much attention to lyrics, and my memory is […]