May 2011 Reading
This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp Infrared by Mac Wellman The Blacks: A Clown Show by Jean Genet Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean by Ed Graczyk Ajax (por nobody) by Alice Tuan Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphiles by …
Standing Ovations Suck
One of the most annoying things about attending mainstream plays at big, mainstream, regional theaters is the tendency for people to give standing ovations on the merest excuse. I know, I know, I’m way more critical of theatre than most people considering I’ve been involved with making and/or studying it for the better part of …
A Memory Series – Fighting For My Brother
Fight One The first fight I remember being in is vague, and composed of half-formed memories that seem to waver, like I’m looking at them through water. Maryland. Beltsville. An apartment complex. We were behind the building opposite ours and there was something happening and there were several kids from the complex around and I …
Some Lessons About Making Myself My Job
Setting tasks is more important than setting time I had originally set up blocks of time that dictated what I would do and when, but I quickly realized that I will be much better off making clear lists of actual things to do and then doing them whenever it makes sense. For instance, I’ve been …
A Tale of Two Selves
One of the reasons I chose “Living the Liminal” as the title of my site and the nom de plume of my blogging self is because I have, for as long as I can remember, felt as if I was poised between two selves, struggling to reconcile equal and opposite impulses. Stuck on the threshold …
Some Savings on Zagg Products
I don’t usually pimp products and am constantly aware of the tension between my desire for minimalism and my urge for materialism. However, I do want to mention to anyone reading that Zagg is having a Memorial Day sale on this coming Monday and Tuesday and offering up to 50% off a number of their products. I have InvibleShields on both my iPhone and iPad, and I have a pair of their Smartbuds that, while I don’t use as my primary earphones, are brilliantly designed for exercise and have a decent sound quality (if a little muddy compared to my Etymotics). I recommend checking out their site and seeing if they have anything that you might find useful.
The Best Laid Plans
And so . . . after my whole long diatribe about what I have planned for the summer the universe decides to switch things up on me and force me to change my plans. Now, the basics—considering my health, writing, and learning to be my “job” for the summer—?will remain in place. However, I was …
My Summer Job
I had originally hoped to spend about 6 weeks of the summer traveling to various parts of the country: SF, New Orleans, New York, Maryland, Rhode Island, Maine, Boston, and Vermont. Then I took a good long look at my finances and realized this probably was not going to happen. Then I got word of …
A Little Something I Made Today
Just a little somethin’ I put together this evening to exercise the ol’ music composition muscles. This first draft was done entirely in Garageband (with the exception of using Audio Hijack Pro to capture the sound byte from Battlestar Galactica), using mostly samples except for the melody parts. It’s a rough draft, but I wanted to share it anyway.
Boom Boom Boom
[audio:https://livingtheliminal.com/audio/BoomBoomBoom-Draft1.mp3]