Living the Liminal

November 8 – 18 Altered Stages, West 29th Street (btwn 7th & 8th Avenues)

Mark your calendars now! It should be an interesting show and I’m going to be working hard to deliver and interesting and compelling sound design. Additionally, I’ll probably be writing some original compositions, a sort of Archipelago theme that will tie all the different plays together. It should be challenging and fun.

Currently Listening: Lucinda from the album “Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards [Disc 1]” by Tom Waits

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September 18, 2007 / Humor

Links-O-Rama – of the Star Wars Kind

You’ve heard of Darth Vader, but what about CHAD VADER, DAY SHIFT MANAGER!! Check it out, yo: Stormtroopers, Stormtroopers, Stormtroopers everywhere . . . and far sexier than you may have though possible. Red & Jonny have a unique predilection for taking pictures of themselves in all sorts of contexts wearing Stormtrooper helmets. The effect …

June 10, 2008 / Writing

Writing lately and it feels good.

Been working on a new short story, working title “Subway Voices.”

Am at slightly over 5000 words and probably have about 5000 more to go for the scope that I’m planning.

I’m not ready to share it yet, but I am feeling good about getting back into the swing of fiction writing.

September 15, 2007 / Ruminations

Retail Dying

Is it just me or is the retail experience in large stores getting worse and worse? I was in Target & Best Buy today and just found myself annoyed by the entire process – the staff seemed bored and annoyed, they seemed poorly stocked compared to the variety I am used to online, the technology seemed old and worn, with the register clerk entering in upc codes by hand at Best Buy. I know that these kinds of stores were never great, and I go in them so rarely now that perhaps I am simply unused to it all, but it does feel like they are dying off in some slow, sad, annoying way.

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September 22, 2007 / Books

Quick Book Review: Down There in Darkness

I just finished reading George Turner’s Down There In Darkness and felt vaguely unsatisfied by the novel as a whole. It was his last book, published posthumously, and hailed by some of the reviewers as a classic. There was some interesting ideas posited about morphic resonance and the concept of Dreamtime but the structure of …

September 22, 2007 / Theatre

First Reviews

First review of the current show:

Being transported to the dismal, quiet bottom of the sea is the first thing one experiences during Invisible City Theatre Company’s production of Purple Hearts by Burgess Clark. With wonderful sound effects by Peter Wood that mimic the groaning of a ship to Elisha Schaefer’s stark, gray set, conjuring the swimming sea life is the next step to being immersed in the aquatic. And from henceforward, one cannot help but be completely engrossed in a situation that terrifies the senses and strikes the core. (Link)

Yay cast & crew!

September 9, 2007 / Music

New Music Purchases

Last night before going to see The Secret Life of Eskimos (which wasn’t half-bad as a theatrical production, but the script left a little, well actually quite a lot to be desired), I stopped by an actual, physical music store and bought those old, archaic things called “cds.” I refrained from buying vinyl. This time …

September 8, 2007 / Politics

Why I Want Giuliani to Get the Republican Nomination

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June 11, 2008 / Blogging

Site Refresh

I’ve been wanting to make the site a bit cleaner for a while now, and have looked at a number of themes that were close, but not quite there. This one is the closest to what I was thinking and I really need to start designing my own themes if I’m going to want to get any closer.

Anyway, I like the look, but it’s behaving just a tad bid funny on page reloads and after I do admin work, so please let me know if you find any oddities happening with this theme.

Thanks!