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It’s just a sketch, just an idea. I get them. Sometimes I write them down and get them out of my head. No expectations, just exercising the brain. I came up with this idea while thinking about a way to make sure I brush my teeth long enough. I tend to be in a rush …

New series: Twelfths. Twelve months in a year, these are collections of songs that have been moving me for the month at hand. Here’s where it gets nerdy: I combined January and February into one mix, so this one is actually 2/12, which is also one sixth. One Sixth. Nod to this. Art work below. …

It’s a strange name, but makes more sense when you realize that this is an electronic version of another mix I made called Earlobe Nibbles. A romantic, quite, jazz mix. This is the same: quiet, grooving, jazzy, but electronic. Thus, Electronic Nibbles. Whether you’re focusing on squashing some bugs in your code, trying to get …

Mike Rohde, in his A List Apart article, Sketching: the Visual Thinking Power Tool, starts off his article with a paragraph that might as well have been pulled right from my mind, memory, and imagination: [As a kid] I used drawing as a primary language for capturing thoughts, exploring ideas, and then sharing those ideas. …

Jazz, then back again. Jazz then, back again. Jazz then back. Again. Recently got the bug to return to studying my first musical love: jazz music. This is the first of a series of jazz mixes I’ll be putting up. This one’s mellow and funky, a bunch of folks in a room, finding a groove …

I’m a lover, I’m a fighter I’m a saint, I’m a sinner I’m a loser, I’m a winner But I’m just a beginner I’m a chief and indian … buddhist, egyptian I’m the future, I’m the power, I’m the help, I’m the problem, I’m the father, I’m a husband, I’m a son I’m a … lover, I’m …

On a typical day I end up listening to a bunch of different things: – Talk Radio (like WNYC, WBAI, KCRW – Beats, beats, and more beats – The annoying whining of clients (JUST KIDDING to all my lovely clients, whose love, concern, and attention to deadlines I would not be willing to live without) …

Based on an ancient sufi tale originally told by Halqavi, The Food of Paradise is an adaptation that tells of a man’s quest in vivid detail and rhyme … a quest for the ultimate truth that ends in a surprising twist of fate. Here’s an excerpt: The Food of Paradise in rhyme, A story that …

Delving a little bit further into the Last.fm community, I followed a path from Pursuit Grooves (through the wilds of myspace -yikes) that led to the Coopr8 crew of folks. CoOp is London party / venue where they make it a point to play only the right tunes. This is how Time Out London described …