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Millionaire
Finally! Ok, so I’m a little rusty, and this isn’t the greatest thing since Gortho started banging a 4/4 rhythm on a hollow log back in cave man days, but I like it. It’s a song by David Olney that … Continue reading
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Sleep? Me no need sleep.
Good news: I finished recording a song! Bad news: The PC I use to get songs off the recorder and into distributable form hadn’t been updated for the last 4 years. So, it’s taken me all week to get it … Continue reading
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Studio Update
Made a scratch recording (just acoustic guitar and vocals) of “Millionaire” to see how it worked. Unfortunately, I’ve got to get a new mouse and wifi card for the PC back there in order to get it off the recorder … Continue reading
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Pandora is an enabler
Stayed up too late listening to and playing along with the Lonesome Sisters, Steve Earle, Gillian Welch, Slaid Cleaves, Son Volt and (for some strange reason) Death Cab for Cutie. If sleep don’t take me, extreme emo/country/blues will… I’m not … Continue reading
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Oh, Funny 25…I can’t quit you…
HER: What the hell are you listening to? Oh, it’s that time of year… Yes, yes, it’s that time of year. I may not have the ambition to write anything serious in this blog, but by gum I have the … Continue reading
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Deliver Me
In a brief moment of driving today, I heard an NPR feature on the Blue Shadows. They were a Vancouver band fronted by Billy Cowsill of the Cowsills (the 60’s band that inspired the Partridge Family and had hits with … Continue reading
Me want
09/09/09 – Digitally Remastered Beatles Catalogue Me want? Yes. Me gets? Me better start saving…
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A Fresh Start
Starting over again at lesternorton.com (man, I wish they’d allow Twitter at work…and, no, I don’t have a cell phone that I want to twitter with).
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2009: Make a lotta noise!
Remember at the beginning of 2008 when I was going to record a song a week? Yeah, um, not so much. Instead, I totally futzed around in January, and then I had bronchitis for all of February and March. By … Continue reading
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Wind up your radios!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: when a jolly, white-bearded man delivers prezzies to all the weird little nerds and geeks! Yes, kids, it’s Dr. Demento bringing us his annual Funny 25, the countdown of the most requested … Continue reading
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