Progressive Rock was dead by 1990. It was a nerd genre that defined my musical palette from ‘83 to ‘93 and it’s pomp and seriousness lead to its self-destructive in these last 2 decades. The 1989 release of Season’s End by Marillion tries really hard to save the genre. It’s a forgotten masterpiece of music [...]
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Comparing 70’s Jazz-Fusion Supergroups with Operating Systems
Last night I saw Return to Forever in concert. The opening date of their first tour in 25 years. Their nervousness and the crowd’s anticipation nearly stifled their astounding performance. But I must say, it was quite a thrill. Afterwards, I overheard fans fantasizing about seeing reunions of other jazz-fusion supergroups of that same era [...]
Timing is a Thrill
There is an intense immediacy in life when things happen quickly, unexpectedly-something that I hope I can always experience. And what exactly is spawning this Hallmark-grade drivel? Three things:
I had a jam with my band the other day that I’ve been listening to a lot on a recent trip back east. Here it is in [...]
5ive Things I know to be true, but have a hard time convincing others
I don’t read many blogs and so I really don’t have much to inspire me on that end. But, one of my favorite is 5ives a humor blog by Merlin Mann who is, dare I say, a fellow Web.2.0 renaissance man. Whatever. I found myself having a number of conversations over the last few days [...]
iTunes Purchase
I uncreatively use Microsoft and Yahoo! for nearly everything I do. It’s not that I don’t see the superiority of Google or Macintosh it just I prefer to go with what’s popular and easy for these things. I see now that when it comes to music, I’ve lost out. I totally dig the new WiMP [...]
a random walk
In some of the computational research I do, one often talks about taking a “random walk through the space.” This is to get a feel of how messy a design problem is, or how much things changed by making the same size small changes.To me (and probably no one else), there’s an interesting tie-in with [...]