Sunday Sessions A series of lo-fi recordings that I will be doing on Sundays. I will try to post a song every week. These are rough demos and should be heard as sketches for what the actual finished, produced songs might be. I will also be using these as a way to play around with using [...]
Archives for July 2006
Seeing Death on the N Train
I saw a man this past Saturday as I was heading into the city to see a production of Pig Farm and he was dying. Not right then, but death had imprinted itself so heavily on him that it was coming soon. I think he had AIDS – his frame was gaunt, arms covered in [...]
Subway Haiku #5
an ill lit doorway splits darkness between stations inaccessible
A Good Reminder
Ze Frank offers some good advice on ideas and creativity on his 07-11-06 show. How many of us are addicted to “brain-crack?” “Hi. My name is Peter and I’m a “brain-crack” addict.”
“Hi, Peter.”
Anyone want to start a 12-Step program with me?
Shameless plug
Guess who’s birthday is today.
Yep… Kevin Bacon.
No, seriously, it’s Angelica Houston’s birthday.
Oh, right. And mine too.
Subway musing
So I’ve taking a temp job for a couple of months at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, which is in the Upper West Side at 168th Street. I live in Brooklyn. So that’s about 2 hours, everyday, on the subway.
Remind me, the next time I take a job, to stay below 42nd Street.
An interesting [...]
Geneva Conventions: The Drinking Game
Materials:
To play “Geneva Conventions: The Drinking Game” you need copies of the conventions as ratified by nearly every country in the world (including the US), your favorite alcoholic beverages (because you are sure-as-shit going to need some drinking), and a group of your friends. Preferably bi-partisan.
The Peace Pledge Union provides a good and quick overview [...]
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