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Good music…

For some reason, the relative simplicity of folk acoustic instrumentation allows the melody and lyrics to really shine. Especially on rainy days like today, the tones strike a chord with the moisture in the air, weaving a web of calm solitude into the autumn sky. This is fall music, harvest music. Music performed around campfires, often only with a single guitar and voice. Lyrics that have wistful echoes, insightful phrases that engage your mind and really foster introspection, because rather than trying to describe the entire tapestry of their own story they leave an open framework that force your imagination to fill in the gaps and bring it into your own perception.

It’s a distinctly individual, personal experience with every listening.

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Hummm…

Yeeeeah… not posting much recently. In varying degrees of busyness at work, have a few things cam-wise occupying my mornings, and most of my evenings have been focused on spending time with Megan (Everyone wave hello before she disappears into the wilderness of Ohio!). Have had quite a few wonderful side experiences, like… quarg in general is the best stuff ever, there seems to be an increase in African musical influences on things I’m digging into (Looking for more, suggestions welcome), I’ve got a new private web-project that will be taking up what free time I have left (loosely based off of thejettareport.com), I have two weeks before my sister’s wedding, three weeks before the sierras, have verbally agreed to attend dancing lessons/venues of various genres on all nights except for Tuesdays and wednesdays (my class nights this next semester), I have to get my car inspected and re-registered, get to babysit new MBA students in two weeks (It’s like baby evil! So cute!), and have managed to move my apartment from bachelor grunge to bachelor pad, hopefully to soon be elevated to bachelor lounge.

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Summery weekend summary!

Here’s the skinny for those of you on a time budget:

Thursday: Dowe’s. Salsa. Friday: Frick. Hiking. Skipped Mage. Saturday: Blading (splat!), Shopping, Swing City. Sunday: Kitchen cleaning. New cheese culture. Chicken Swing.

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These ain’t your momma’s 80′s…

WTF? No, seriously, I remember these guys from the days of New Kids, A-Ha, Europe, and big-hair Metal… but here’s the catch: They were never really big in the US, so the only reason I think I know about them is because I lived over in europe during the 80′s. Now I’m sure many of you remember the legacy of the 80′s. Teased big hair, shawls, latex pants, stonewashed jeans, Miami Vice? Take those memories, and then realize that during that time European popular culture tried to emulate that of the US, and did it badly. Think David Hasslehoff’s Pop Star Career. That’s the environment in which I grew up.

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