OK let's review one more time...what NOT to do...
While preparing for U2's FREE concert in front of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate at the 20th anniversary celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall, what did event organizers do (at MTV's instruction, mind you) to ensure non-ticket holders didn't get the same privileged view as the 10,000 who did snag a free ticket online?
They put up a wall.
Jeesh. Silly primates.
Now, let's turn our attention and energy toward acknowledging the significance of the fall of the wall for Germany, for Europe and for the world, shall we? And watch some big colorful dominoes topple over too? (I wonder how the artist got THAT gig...?)
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
Studio Bound
It's kind of like when a new jar of pickles magically appears in your fridge.
Or when ocean waves splash your sun-kissed skin, sailing across the bay in your bikini. Or when you wake up to a snow day, pummeling around till your toes turn numb then retreating inside to hot cocoa warming on the woodstove. Or when apple crisp aromas, made with apples you just picked, come wafting from the oven.
Or, perhaps, when you find yourself on top of a volcano in the guatemalan highlands, watching another volcano erupt below just before sunrise having hiked all night with the full moon.
This is how recording music is for me: total magic.
For someone who always has about twenty projects going at once, and a hundred new ideas in my mind at the same time, there's something very spacious and calming about aligning 11 tracks next to each other in a neat package - a linear, cohesive, structured THING containing tidy tid-bits of creative ponderings and questionings and realizings.
"Laughing and Lamenting" will contain 11 new tracks, stripped down to just a few instruments, celebrating the loss paradox - the humor, the heartbreak, and the growth surrounding loss. i've got march 2010 on my calendar - hope you'll add it to yours cause i'd like to share this with you.
I might even share my pickles. If you're real nice.
Or when ocean waves splash your sun-kissed skin, sailing across the bay in your bikini. Or when you wake up to a snow day, pummeling around till your toes turn numb then retreating inside to hot cocoa warming on the woodstove. Or when apple crisp aromas, made with apples you just picked, come wafting from the oven.
Or, perhaps, when you find yourself on top of a volcano in the guatemalan highlands, watching another volcano erupt below just before sunrise having hiked all night with the full moon.
This is how recording music is for me: total magic.
For someone who always has about twenty projects going at once, and a hundred new ideas in my mind at the same time, there's something very spacious and calming about aligning 11 tracks next to each other in a neat package - a linear, cohesive, structured THING containing tidy tid-bits of creative ponderings and questionings and realizings.
"Laughing and Lamenting" will contain 11 new tracks, stripped down to just a few instruments, celebrating the loss paradox - the humor, the heartbreak, and the growth surrounding loss. i've got march 2010 on my calendar - hope you'll add it to yours cause i'd like to share this with you.
I might even share my pickles. If you're real nice.
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