Billy Corgan speaks with Chazz Palminteri and go deep into one of my favorite movies, A Bronx Tale. So good.
My new job requires me to be in the office 3x per week, so I drive 160 miles each way to and from Lincoln. It’s been nice being in an urban environment (Lincoln is no New York or Chicago but compared to Lexington, NE where I currently live it is certainly more expansive). I’ve been enjoying the food scene there, checking out music shops and other local stores (I had some great pho the other day for lunch). The Nebraska State Capitol building is visible from a lot of areas in the town, the UNL campus is pretty to take walks through and my favorite parts have been the historic buildings and architecture still being preserved and actively in use.
My wife and I have been considering whether moving makes sense in the near future. The fact is that at my current pay it would not be economically feasible to uproot the family and after my layoff experience in the summer and the shakiness of the economy, job uncertainty still runs high in my psyche, though I enjoy my new gig and company very much and have a small sliver of hope that I can turn it into something truly long lasting and meaningful in the future.
In other news, my friends sent me a rough track for a new song they are working on and they’ve asked me to record some drum parts for it. I’ve been diving in and mapping out parts during my drives (an upside to the long commute, lots of music listening and quiet thinking which I haven’t had time for really since my son was born 5 years ago).
All in all, sitting with the gratitude I feel is enough.
Difficult to believe, 30% of the people in my town will be unemployed by end of January: ruralradio.com/maxcountr…
Another older drum cover video snippet, Falling to Pieces by Faith No More. I need to find some time to record some new ones.
A couple of weekends ago I went to Kansas City for a drum event at a friend’s jazz club. The event was a clinic by WFLIII Drums, owned by Bill Ludwig III, grandson of Bill Ludwig of Ludwig drums (B3 used to manage artist relations at Ludwig). Anyways, I met the man, and he signed my snare.
Testing the new micro.blog video feature. Video is of a drum cover I did of Aqua Regia by Sleep Token.
Tinted glass
I commute to work three days per week, about 160 miles each direction. I wake up at 5 am and am out the door between 5:3...I have just completed my fourth week in my new job with the Arbor Day Foundation, and I’m happy, nay, fortunate to say I’m really enjoying it there. I really had no clue where my post-layoff road would take me.
Reading about the Principles of Calm Technology from the Calm Tech Institute:
I. Technology should require the smallest possible amount of attention
II. Technology should inform and create calm
III. Technology should make use of the periphery
IV. Technology should amplify the best of technology and the best of humanity
V. Technology can communicate, but doesn’t need to speak
VI. Technology should work even when it fails
VII. The right amount of technology is the minimum needed to solve the problem
VIII. Technology should respect social norms.
via Coté:
“Be yourself,” they always tell me. Yes, but, if I was being myself, I would not have shown up.
My sleep cycle has been a little all over the place since getting back to work, today it’s 3 a.m. shenanigans. I listened to Rudy Sarzo being interviewed by Billy Corgan and can’t wait for part 2 to come out.
Jack DeJohnette passed away today at 83. Such a great drummer.
My mother-in-law bakes 6-8 of these sourdough loaves per week it seems. Poor me.
"It's not profitable" (smiles)
I’ve posted about Koide Cymbals in Japan before, came across another video of their hand making of cymbals, with s...Today marks the last week I file for my weekly unemployment benefits and start my new gig on Tuesday. This has been a wild experience and I’m grateful to be going back to work, and excited for the actual work too. More on that later, don’t want to jinx it!
RIP, D'Angelo
D’Angelo was incredible and Black Messiah is straight up a life changing album. I spent the last few days listenin...Beautiful October day, 80 degrees, breezy. Oh, and I start my new job in a week. More to come.
Thanks, LinkedIn.
Anika Nilles drumming with Rush is such a badass move on Geddy and Alex’s part. Rolling Stone profile of Anika Nilles.
Living Color still sound fucking amazing, Cult of Personality performed on Jimmy Kimmel’s show.
I have no clue why I'm writing this and wtf are these three fingers for?
Jimmy Kimmel went off the air for a few days. People voted with their wallets. They cancelled their Disney + subscriptio...The Nebraska Telephone Company Building in Lincoln. A reminder that infrastructure used to be built with style. From theclio.com:
The ground story is composed of cast iron with a simple classical motif spanning the width of the front of the building. The upper stories are St. Louis pressed brick topped by a terra cotta entablature and wall cornice, under a copper free-standing anthemion motif. This motif featuring of alternating lotus and palmette is shared by the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. The second and third floor facades also feature ornate designs such as a terra cotta panel featuring a bell (a symbol of the phone company) and floral motif underneath a palladian window.
Give me the titanium iPhone mini as the next air.
This. From Taegan Goddard’s Politcal Wire. Well worth the subscription btw.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) could simply announce that Democrats will no longer filibuster appropriations bills, and when back in the majority, they’ll formally abolish it. That alone would render the filibuster meaningless. Such a move would leave Republicans fully responsible for funding the government. Democrats could vote against GOP proposals and then criticize them as bad policy without being blamed for shutting down the government.