The New Blather

Just a little status update on my album… I’m currently working on reorchestrating and mixing and writing an ending for my 15-minute piece Castle Sky, which will be the second-to-last track on the album.  In my humblest of opinions, it has some of my most delicious melodies.  (Is that humble?)  Then I only have a [...]

I just finished reading Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show (v. 1) — a collection of short stories from his online magazine.  I haven’t read that many short story anthologies, but of the ones I have read, this is definitely one of the best.  Plenty of really awesome sci-fi and fantasy short stories in here.  [...]

Does music need “professional” musicians? Paul Williams, the songwriter and current president of ASCAP, recently wrote this article.  It’s pretty short, but one thing is missing from it: a point.  The only point I can see is that “piracy is bad.”  Well, duh. Anyway, I’m going to go off on a little tangent here.  I [...]

I finished reading Neal Stephenson’s lengthy novel Anathem a short while ago.  I’ve never read anything by Stephenson before, but I’ve seen his books at the library and bookstores, and they’ve always looked interesting.  This is the first one I actually decided to go ahead and read. For someone who’s never read a Stephenson novel [...]

We got about a foot of snow on Saturday, so I got off work all weekend and Monday.  Woohoo!  That was awesome.  Loved it. It also gave me some time to work a bit more an my album, so here’s a little update on that as I get closer and closer to finishing this thing… [...]

CHARACTERS: ELTON P. STRAÜMANN, a modern-thinking man with exciting ideas SEAN, a humble wannabe writer Act I SCENE OPENS ON STRAÜMANN and SEAN, standing. STRAÜMANN: Do you want to buy this self-published book? SEAN: No. STRAÜMANN: Obama is awesome. CURTAIN FALLS John Scalzi wrote a longer version on his blog that goes into a bit [...]