And it’s portable too. Just like an iPod.

Merry Christmas (and other seasonal good wishes)!!

From a couple of years buy phentermine and topamax back, but who’s to know…B-) Soundtrack is LOTR movie we were watching at the time.

Three Kings Under a Winter Moon

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The moon received a bit of a facelift in Photoshop, but otherwise this was pretty much the scene as photographed today.

Shaker-style table (unpainted pine)

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I built this myself over the last 7 weeks as part of an introductory woodworking class, once a week at a local school. I don’t have a lathe at home, so I won’t be turning any more drawer-pulls again any time soon, but I have most of the other tools we used, so I should be able to build similar projects in future.

On Saturday Nov. 1, 2008 at the Downtown Bookstore in Owen Sound, Ontario, Joshua David Richardson presented an evening of spooky filmic fun.
Beginning the evening, “Separations” by local film-maker Isaiah Walters made its world premiere. This 20-minute short weaves grim tales of abandoned homes along the Grey-Bruce shoreline, as the film-maker explores their vacant architecture and the artifacts that remain.

For the main event, local musicans provided a live Hallowe’en-inspired soundtrack to Benjamin Christensen’s classic 1922 film Haxan (trans. “The Witch”). The film is a silent-era docudrama using re-enactments, imaginative special-effects sequences, and documentary footage to explain the persecution of so-called “Witches” as medieval society’s misunderstanding of the mental illnesses.
The musicians, from stage-left to stage-right, included:
Charles Glasspool – upright piano
Joshua David Richardson – computers
Jonathan O’Leary – violin
Jonathan Cox – electric guitar
R.G.Daniel – electronic drums and noise toys
Patrick Dorfman – banjo, flute, percussion and effects
There were two short rehearsals for the performance, buy soma muscle relaxant online which were more about setting up and soundcheck for me, and which never included the full lineup. There was some discussion of structure, and cues, and pacing ourselves. But for the most part, that was all moot, and the performance ended up being almost entirely improvised. This was the first time I’ve played with these folks, and I look forward to the next time. I think we all agreed it went rather well!!
Presented below for your amusement, a baker’s dozen, or a witches’ coven, of short audio clips from the live soundtrack. As usual, start anywhere — they will loop around. I will probably edit the full show down from an hour and forty minutes to an even hour or so. CD’s of that final edit will be available, once again for the low cost of one million dollars (discounts may apply).

Hallowe’en Kit

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Crappy self-timer shot, just wanted to see how the kit looked from the other side… I have two shows coming up, one this weekend and one next weekend, and I’ve completely de-constructed the drum set into a single vertical tree-like tower, at left here. Toys and effects laid out on the table in the center, and principal sound modules on the right. The heavy metal chain (actually styrofoam, and quite chewy as the dog will attest) and orange pumpkin lights finish it off nicely.

Be sure to click the photo to go to Flickr, for the larger versions and especially for the annotations containing more detail on the technology than you would possibly care about, but will still be very impressed by.

And they appear to like my Galapagos photos… I count four of them in here… it’s okay, they asked…
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[ Here is the announcement… ]

As part of the As It Were series of “live in the studio” recordings, a series that I am just inventing now, featuring avant-garde art-noise mongers R.G.Daniel (www.rgdaniel.com) and Alan Glicksman (www.alanglicksman.com), 54×2 recently entertained themselves and a captive audience of canines at Barkwhistle Studio (my rec room) in beautiful Owen Sound.
This time out, I relied heavily (perhaps too heavily) on my Boss DD-6 Digital Delay pedal, as well as my new circuit-bent tiny drone guitar and circuit-bent Lisa Simpson saxophone. Alan favoured the always delightful vintage Yamaha synth that he played in Durham, along with sundry bells and whistles. The recording was once again via Lynda’s Zoom X4, with no post processing except for normalizing the volumes.
Here is a generous selection of excepts. A CD of the entire audio event is available by contacting me via this website or by stopping me in the street. The cost for the CD will be one million dollars.

Today Lynda flagged down the Hydro crew as they were cutting down trees, and arranged to have them drop off the wood chips in our driveway for use as mulch on our pathways and garden beds. As I stood watching them feed whole trees as big as 8 or 10 inches in diameter effortlessly into the chipper, I was of course reminded of this scene from the movie Fargo. Now we have a pile of woodchips in our driveway the size of a Buick, and I’m hoping I don’t find the remains of anything (or anybody) else in there as we spread it around the place. I do enjoy free stuff though.
(YouTube movie)