May 2012
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Unsolicited Referrals
I had a vaguely remembered dream the other night - Something about living in a medieval village. The only bit that stuck with me from the dream was that a swarthy man with dark hair and a dirty face sidled up to me in the village square and whispered “I can give you the number of a good bellmaker”.
May 31st
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heksenhaus: to answer a billion questions- i don’t use any photoshop filters. i don’t know how to use photoshop, at all, and none of my own pictures are edited after being taken. i have nothing against photo editing software, or artists who use it, but it’s just fundamentally not what i do. now please stop asking because i really don’t feel comfortable talking about process and praxis in this...
May 31st
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May 28th
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A Brief Critique Of Television Programming
Hey, HBO, slotting Veep after Game Of Thrones is like a DJ spinning Leo Kottke after The Crystal Method. I like all of these things, but not in those orders. Just sayin’
May 28th
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May 28th
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Please Pardon Our Dust, We're Still Open!
About time for some blog maintenance, so tonight I ditched the non-really-working tag cloud, which was slowing page rendering way down, and updated the theme from a hacked version of ichi to a hacked* version of Letterhead. “Please enjoy!” as they say on Top Chef. *I recolored the theme, and then added code to fix a bug with displaying the time of the post as the link to it. If you...
May 27th
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May 26th
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: I drove east on a winding road that dipped... →
yvonnegeorgina: I drove east on a winding road that dipped between deep jungle gulches and wide windy vistas overlooking the ocean. The further east I drove, the stranger I felt, the deeper the jungle grew and the darker its recesses. Every plant was gargantuan and twisting. I took a left down a dirt road,…
May 25th
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WatchWatch
This is an excerpt from Miserere Mei, one of the pieces on an album called The Wine Of Silence. These pieces are an orchestral rendering of Robert Fripp’s ambient electronic guitar Soundscapes, transcribed by California Guitar Trio member Bert Lams, and arranged and scored for orchestra by Andrew Keeling. The pieces were performed by The Metropole Orkest, conducted by Jan Stullen. 
May 25th
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May 24th
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May 24th
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May 21st
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May 21st
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Eclipse.
Just watched the crescent Sun sink below the trees, looking directly at it after the image I was projecting on to paper from my pocket Brunton telescope got too dim to make out - The first solar eclipse of the 21st century. Now there’s something I’m unlikely to see ever again; the top one third of the sun, dusky orange, vanishing below the horizon.
May 21st
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“There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us...”
– Wendell Berry.  Kinda where I am right now with a tune I’m working out.
May 20th
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Post Number 700.
That is all. Hope everyone is enjoying their Sunday, or whatever day it happens to be when this reaches you.
May 20th
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: What sustains So full was the wind in July... →
yvonnegeorgina: What sustains So full was the wind in July blowing green and blue and stretching the evening clouds over a field of high flustered grass and soaring purple martins, a storm was building We were late for dinner on paper plates chicken and sausage and happy mouths dabbed with paper napkins and…
May 20th
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.heksenhaus.: laying on the floor, ‘something... →
heksenhaus: laying on the floor, ‘something spooked the horses’ washing over me, the feel of scratchy carpet against my naked shoulders, fingers itching from dried paint, excitement for today’s adventures building, and just wondering what certain people are doing with their time at this moment. . the other… Interesting, here at the ranch, 10 minutes ago. Something did spook the horses....
May 20th
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Creepy 60's Pop
heksenhaus: foxesinbreeches replied to your quote: and let me try with pleasured hands …Also, what’s the deal with that dubious “Who’s your daddy?” lyric? oh, totally… and the entirely too creepy follow up of ‘is he rich like me?’ There are a fair number of 60’s pop songs like this, featuring high creep-factor lyrics. Even the Beatles got into the act, with this paean to domestic abuse...
May 18th
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May 18th
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May 13th
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May 13th
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May 12th
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May 12th
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Audio Equipment Review/Whinge
Got a pair of Shure SRH240A headphones to replace the Audio Technicas that the vacuum cleaner ate a while back. While they’re billed as studio phones, I wouldn’t use them for anything but tracking, as they’re nowhere near as accurate as the AKG 240As that I use for real mixing. But the main annoying thing about them is that with a sensitivity of 107dB/milliwatt, these things are...
May 12th
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heksenhaus: alexanderraban replied to your post: alexanderraban replied to your post: i also find… The proper name of the spirit is H E K S E N H A U S and his seal is VOID. He may be invoked with BASS and by calling on the name Hassan Ibn Sabbah. He teacheth mysteriousness perfectly, and knoweth all manner of puns…[here the grimoire trails off] !! ! The legible pages have been exposed...
May 8th
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slabbb-blockkk-hilarious asked: Wow, your father sounded like an interesting and awesome man! (saving whales) :)
May 8th
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May 7th
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i am a fucking ghost
heksenhaus: forever and ever Okay.
May 5th
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May 5th
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May 4th
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May 3rd
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May 3rd
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April 2012
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Apr 30th
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Apr 29th
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Birds II
In a Central Texas Spring, water means grow. Anything with roots in the ground knows that this is the time - When June comes around and the storms die away and the mercury climbs well beyond human body temperature, the greenery turns brown and dormant. The only exception is the pecan tree behind the house, which happily puts forth bright green leaves under all except the most sere conditions.  ...
Apr 29th
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Apr 29th
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Birds I
Last week I was finishing up feeding the horses in the evening, and noticed a trio of birds coming directly for me, very quickly, at an altitude of maybe 20 ft (~6m). The three were maintaining an delta formation; In the lead was a Crested Caracara (Caracara Cheriway). Flanking it on either side were a pair of American Crows (Corvus Brachyrhynchos). Unlike every other time I’ve seen crows go...
Apr 28th
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WatchWatch
saakaldt-foto: EKKOLALIA - DROPLET PLETHORA So I’ve made a new song. It just took me four months, but hey, it’s free to download. Happy Friday music…
Apr 27th
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Apr 26th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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heksenhaus asked: and you sir! not only are one of the most erudite and interesting people in this corner of the internet, you're a fantastic dinner companion and we should meet up again, sometime.
Apr 24th
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Apr 20th
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Via Ezra Klein: Which Cities Shape Our Musical... →
There’s a rough consensus on which cities are the fashion capitals of the Western world: London, Milan, New York and Paris. Fashion trends start there and slowly diffuse out to the rest of the globe. But what about music? Which cities are trend-setters for our listening habits? A new paper by two Irish network scientists, Conrad Lee and Pádraig Cunningham of the Clique Research Cluster, tries...
Apr 19th
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Listenheksenhaus: keziah mason.- ‘still sunlight...
Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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