| Written in Crayon ...@... Waiting for Karma .com
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Posted: 2010 Summer
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| About Mr Klangfarben
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Posted: 2010 August 17
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Mr. K is the guy who used to ask, over and over and over again
"Are there really bridges in clusters?"
It's the second time in two years I've almost run into him, literally,
after not seeing the clusterf*$*#$%+%@x&*=0$!! ... for 20 years.
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| About Defenseless Pedestrians
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Posted: 2010 July 5
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Mr. Klangfarben walked right in front of my car today.
I waited in the intersection until he reached the curb.
We're both still waiting for karma.
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| About Car Stereo Surprises
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Posted: 2010 Jun 6
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I hopped in my car with what I thought was "Exile",
the mid nineties Bob Ludwig remastered version,
but it turned out to be "Beggars Banquet". Sublime.
I rolled down the windows.
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| About "Exile on Main Street" Redux
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Posted: 2010 May 18
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Whenever I have a problem I always ask myself
"What would Keith Richards do?"
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| About Personal Expression
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Posted: 2010 April 1
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Sometimes I find comfort in herd-mentality expression.
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| About the Shit List
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Posted: 2010 March 21
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Recently I visited my buddy at Dadgad & Zig Zag Studio
and he had a "Shit List" on a bulletin board beside his desk.
I knew some of the people listed and if I had a "Shit List"
they'd be on mine too.
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| About Blogging
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Posted: 2010 February 4
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... and on the rare occasion when I think of something Xtra clever
it usually gives me an idea for a song and I'd almost always prefer to
"lip off over guitars and drums".
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| About Blogs
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Posted: 2010 January 13
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I have to admit to being impressed by bloggers who crank out
copious quantities of words, pictures, videos, and links every day.
I seem to have a hard time coming up with one coherent sentence a month.
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| About Meeting a Magician
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Posted: 2009 December 17
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... at The Mandarin I met "The Merlin of Maintenance"
who recommended that I try to retain my Burger King virginity
even though the place is "pretty good".
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| About The Mandarin
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Posted: 2009 December 16
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It is true that I finally lost my "Mandarin" virginity!
The chinese buffet restaurant is the only place
that "The Great Justino" will dine at,
so ...
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| About Burger King & Pizza Hut
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Posted: 2009 November 3
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I've never had the pleasure of dining at either
Burger King or Pizza Hut so I've decided to
make a conscious effort to resist
and maintain my unblemished record.
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| About Loopholes
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Posted: 2009 October 13
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Sometimes you get a second chance.
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| About Going to the Movies
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Posted: 2009 September 22
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I'm kinda thinking that maybe the audience
should be getting paid to watch.
You know, to cover time & expenses & pain & suffering.
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| About Les Paul
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Posted: 2009 August 13
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Farewell Les Paul 1915 June 9 - 2009 August 13
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| About Losing Touch
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Posted: 2009 August 11
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Have you ever had someone you've known for years
say or do something so unexpected that it makes you wonder
how well you ever really know anyone?
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| About Graffiti ...@... Waiting for Karma .com
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Posted: 2009 July 3
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Graffiti is currently, what? Under review? Pretty much toast?...
because,
after being locked in a relentless six month battle against spam,
I've reluctantly had to retreat & regroup ...
Sooo ... "Graffiti" and "Sign the Guestbook" have been suspended,
pending a weapons upgrade and a "performance review".
To get to Graffiti click on More Graffiti on the News page.
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| About Summer in Canada
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Posted: 2009 June 21
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It's finally summer here in Canada and everybody smells like coconuts.
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| About Loss Leaders
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Posted: 2009 May 21
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This month I'm playing with actuarial ideas ... ?
If recorded music is free and just a loss leader for live shows,
then recording professionals are an endangered species. ( doomed? )
Aren't they?
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| About Vacancies
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Posted: 2009 May 7
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I dropped by "Electric LarryLand" Studio yesterday and ...
well, actually I didn't because nobody was there.
As my old man would've said, "He's done a moonlight flit."
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| About You Tube
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Posted: 2009 April 20
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| About Endless Playlists
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Posted: 2009 April 7
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Listeners will include what they like
and exclude what they're "indifferent" about
in their own endless playlist.
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| About New Mediums
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Posted: 2009 March 5
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... is this also the end for artists assembling
a collection of songs into a specific order?
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| About Old Mediums
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Posted: 2009 February 6
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Now that CD's are reaching the end of the line ...
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Music Written in Crayon ~ vol. 3
Delicious & Nutritious Electric Guitar Tracks
Guaranteed to exceed all nutritional requirements
for extended aural health.
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| About Old Media
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Posted: 2008 December 19
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The other day I transferred a few songs from cassette to CD to mp3
for a buddy who read agenda journalism while he waited.
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| About Anonymous Sources
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Posted: 2008 November 28
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Credibility evaporates like a vapour trail.
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| About Personality
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Posted: 2008 October 29
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I have a friend who is blessed with multiple personalities.
Way back when I used to have a personality I only had one.
Life's just not fair.
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| About Being Honest
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Posted: 2008 September 12
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O'kay, I've got to say that my month long experiment
where I endeavored to jump on the bandwagon
and offer only insults and unqualified criticism
worked out pretty good considering it didn't come to me naturally.
That said, it was nowhere near as entertaining as the month when,
inspired by a ridiculous movie, I decided to make an effort to speak
the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me Eric Clapton Jeff Beck.
At the time people were justifying their remarks as "just being honest"
but obviously this wasn't the "positive development" you'd expect.
Imagine the possibilities! It's fun! ... Isn't it?
I got to enjoy everything from a slight pinching of the nostrils
to a beet red, bulging veins in the forehead, petulant frenzy!
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| About Compliments
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Posted: 2008 August 1
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I think I got that old saying backwards. Maybe it's supposed to be ...
"If you haven't got anything "bad" to say, don't say it."
I'm gonna try it for a month and see how I like it.
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| About The Canadian Music Marketing Board
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Posted: 2008 July 17
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According to the latest "Supply Management" regulations
I've written too many songs and exceeded my quota.
In an effort to "protect" music consumers from lower prices
and a wider selection the CMMB has exercised it's mandate
and imposed a 45 day suspension of my artistic license.
Thank You Commissar Summeroff !
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| About Fresh Perspectives
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Posted: 2008 June 13
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Everyday is a school day.
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| About Frank Sinatra
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Posted: 2008 May 14
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Ol' Blue Eyes passed away ten tears ago today
and he's still giving lessons.
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| About Feelings
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Posted: 2008 May 2
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I understand how people feel because
I've had sensitivity training. Twice.
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| About The Disappearance of Bongo DeLuxe
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Posted: 2008 April 1
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I don't know him, I've never heard of him,
and I have no idea where he could be found.
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| About Credits
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Posted: 2008 March 21
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In order to comply with the latest, stringent, "allowable credit" regulations,
introduced to address the credibility inflation issue,
"Credits" will henceforth be found listed under "Liabilities".
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| About Time Machines
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Posted: 2008 February 29
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DNA results confirm that we’re all unique individual time machines.
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Waiting for Karma . . . examining . . . Counterfeit Glory
Martyrs looking for a lost cause & other love songs.
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| About Progressive Garage Rock
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Posted: 2008 January 8
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Essentially, I've been working on this concept since I was a kid.
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| About Audio Forensics
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Posted: 2007 December 7
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After accidentally hanging a halo of static over a mix
I recalled an interview with the legendary Les Paul
where he said "most people listen with their eyes".
Whew! Lucky for me!
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| About Remembrance Day
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Posted: 2007 November 11
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On Remembrance Day we recognize the cost of our freedom.
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| About Musical Forensics
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Posted: 2007 October 2
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Sometimes, when I take apart a song that I like
I'm disappointed by what I find.
Magic rarely survives scrutiny under a microscope.
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| About Creativity
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Posted: 2007 September 5
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I'm forever trying to find a better way through the next chord.
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| About The Listening Habits of A & R Guys
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Posted: 2007 August 1
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Listening for 45 seconds should be regarded as generous.
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| About Tuning
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Posted: 2007 July 7
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| About Dithering
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Posted: 2007 June 7
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Now that I've discovered what dithering is
maybe dilly dally can be rehabilitated too!
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| About Mastering @ the Redline
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Posted: 2007 May 3
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In a show of support for the "Dynamic Recording" movement
I've cut my Master Level by almost 1 db !! Someone had to go first eh?
Take "The Redline Challenge" Today!
It takes so little and means so much ... Won't You Help?
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| About Self Doubt
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Posted: 2007 April 4
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There was a moment a couple of weeks ago when I thought
maybe I should start talking about myself in the third person,
listing my liabilities as credits and showering myself with praise
like everybody else does, but then I snapped out of it.
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| About Lowering the Bar
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Posted: 2007 March 15
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Thanks to the influence of celebrity users who are "Lowering the Bar"
pretty soon there won't even be any stigma associated with using a capo.
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| About Acoustic Guitarists
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Posted: 2007 February 9
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Acoustic guitarists began migrating away from their natural
"around the campfire" habitat in favour of urban environments
when they were attracted by the "great barrels of fire"
lighting up the entrances to suburban industrial properties.
Cheerfully oblivious to the stigma of "Lowering the Bar",
they enthusiastically clamped their "2 plain" heavy gauge strings down
using a capo and adapted their "around the campfire"
open string style to their new more densely populated habitat.
Nowadays this tradition continues wherever people get together to
"Flick their Bics" wave their cellphones in the air during fun singalongs.
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| About Acoustic Guitars
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Posted: 2007 January 2
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I've never found one with a real bridge let alone a whammy bar
so that takes a bit of the fun out of it. Doesn't it?
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| About The Supernatural
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Posted: 2006 December 5
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I've been taking clairvoyant lessons every weekend for years
and I still find some things surprising, so I'm going to drop out!
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| About Social Justice for Drummers
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Posted: 2006 November 1
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No drummers were used, abused or otherwise harmed in the making of
Music Written in Crayon - vol. 2 >> Slick Electric Guitar Tracks
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Music Written in Crayon ~ vol. 2
Slick Electric Guitar Tracks . . . it's ediTopia !
Guaranteed to elevate visual productions & satiate sonic desires.
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| About Rhythm Worker Layoffs
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Posted: 2006 October 4
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Due to the recent "peaceful" protests by drummers rights activists,
all manual drumming has now been suspended pending the outcome of
a provincial government inquiry into the feasibility of introducing
tempo limits and regulating dangerous time signatures.
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| About Positive Reviews
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Posted: 2006 September 5
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From the inside looking out, I can see that
virtually all reviews reveal as much or more about the reviewer
as they do about the subject of the review.
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| About Negative Reviews
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Posted: 2006 August 1
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The worst so far was a guy with a tire iron.
Then again, maybe I should interpret it as a positive review
since he clearly understood what I was saying.
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| About Musical Genres
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Posted: 2006 July 4
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The walls between musical genres are so thin
that musicians often can't even see them.
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| About Dynamics
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Posted: 2006 June 1
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Ever since dynamics were outlawed back in '03 I've been in the red.
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| About Improving Your Band
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Posted: 2006 May 4
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One thing that always improves a band is individual practice.
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| About Sign Language
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Posted: 2006 April 1
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I was originally a Virgo, but recently, I had my sign legally changed to Leo
and wouldn't you know it! From my new perspective I can see that
it would be twice as good to be a Gemini.
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| About My Education as a "Hired Gun" Guitarist
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Posted: 2006 March 7
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When I discovered that my favourite songs
and the songs I was "indifferent" about
were composed of exactly the same chords,
I began to understand that,
beyond the technical qualities of the composition and performance,
which were all that had previously mattered to me,
the "Art" of it lay in the depth and clarity of expression,
and beyond into the underworld of what is being expressed, and why.
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| About Originality
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Posted: 2006 February 1
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The most original and unique you can be is to just be yourself.
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Music Written in Crayon ~ vol. 1
Abrasive Instrumental Tracks
Guaranteed to exfoliate stale sonics & leave eardrums refreshed.
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| About Music Written in Crayon
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Posted: 2005 December 20
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Waiting for Karma ... removes the language barrier ...
I visualize it as Waveform Porn.
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| About Recording
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Posted: 2005 December 1
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16 bit tracks leave a stain that just won't come out.
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| About Lyrics
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Posted: 2005 November 2
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The essential difference between poetry and lyrics is that
poetry is meant to be read, while lyrics are meant to be heard.
Even when they're written in crayon.
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| About Songwriting
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Posted: 2005 October 6
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Basically it comes down to...?#(xy)@?%&+/-3db>a?b?...=... the next chord,
then the melody threads through the chords...kinda like a musical pinball.
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| About Guitar
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Posted: 2005 September 2
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When I was a kid a friend of mine had a guitar teacher
who hated open chords. At the time I couldn't understand why.
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| About Bass
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Posted: 2005 August 11
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I'm so glad that I overcame my initial reluctance to play the bass.
I didn't know what I was missing.
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| About Drums
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Posted: 2005 July 1
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Only two drummers were harmed in the making of this recording.
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| About Vocals
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Posted: 2005 June 2
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If there's no lyric, there's no vocal.
An inspired aesthetic decision!
...and absolutly not a backlash
provoked by singers who pollute the instrumental breaks with
"Nah, Nah, Hey, Hey, or Whoa, Whoa, Whoa!"
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| About Music
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Posted: 2005 May 3
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Mine is mostly written in crayon.
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| About Vending Machines
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Posted: 2005 April 1
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I always liked the National 620,
but I loved the Seeburg Marquis.
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| About Science
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Posted: 2005 March 14
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Every piece of wire is an EQualizer.
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| About Art
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Posted: 2005 February 2
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We all start with a blank page and from there
the similarities diminish the further down the page we go.
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| About "Instant Carma"
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Posted: 2005 January 31
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Introducing "Instant Carma",
a microwavable synthetic karma substitute
developed to meet today's demands for instant gratification.
Like all acts of passion, simply apply heat
until reaching the boiling point.
Serve hot.
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| About Waiting for Karma
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Posted: 2005 January 25
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Waiting, of course, is always the hardest part.
Unfortunately, karma doesn't release it's full textured flavour
until it has been allowed to simmer before cooling off very slowly.
Before serving, chill veins with icewater
and then drizzle with surcharges to compensate for
waiting time & expenses.
Serve cold.
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| About Karma
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Posted: 2005 January 13
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It's sort of like justice postponed forever.
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| Defining Karma
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Posted: 2005 January 5
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noun: (in Hinduism and Buddhism)
The Collins Dictionary:
1. The principle of retributive justice
determining a person's state of life and the state of his reincarnations
as the effect of his past deeds.
2. Destiny or fate.
3. (informal) An aura or quality that a person, place, or thing is felt to have.
The Oxford Dictionary:
The sum of a person's actions in a previous existence,
thought to decide his or her fate in future existences.
The Random House Dictionary:
Action seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results,
good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation.
The 1949 Funk & Wagnalls New Practical Standard Dictionary:
The law of cause and effect regulating ones future life; inevitable retribution:
a Brahmanic idea developed by the Buddhists.
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Waiting for Karma . . . reminding you to . . . Move Up or Move Over
It's time for your performance review.
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| Colour Commentary
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Posted: 2005 January 2
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2005 January 2
It's music ... written in crayon.
2004 August 26
... and so here I am, making colours fly.
2004 May 28
But, a rainbow of colour remains.
2004 May 22
Or lose their shine.
2004 March 15
Sometimes the colours run, or hide.
2003 December 20
Others just failed to take flight.
2003 July 4
Some colours were spilled in the production of these recordings.
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| The Short Version
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Posted: 2003 July 4
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Sometimes I feel a little bit like one of those inmates who wake up
to find themselves inexplicably in control of the asylum!
As a "hired gun" guitarist I'd play anything, anytime, anywhere, but,
after years of defending musical integrity against incessant assaults
and with my resistance to compromise under siege,
the urge for rebellion became overwhelming!
I seized the microphone,
and opened the gate to a renaissance.
Committed to the pursuit of my own artistic goals,
I've now set forth on my own path armed with
an aggressive electric guitar style
and focused lyrics that reflect
an urbane and provocative point of view.
With melodies locked to contemporary rhythms,
subtle traces of sophisticated jazz harmony,
and layered guitars blazing trails of classical counterpoint,
this is truly a fusion of genres integrated into
a unique Rock and Roll sound.
o'kay ... o'kay ... It's just me lippin' off over guitars and drums !!
You'll like it !! . . . K.I.M.
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| Written in Crayon ...@... Waiting for Karma .com
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Posted: 2003 Summer
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