September 1
Published on August 31st, 2006 in Personal | Comments 1
Because we live & work in Allston, Valerie & I don’t teach on September 1. It is the ” Big Move Day” in Greater Boston. Allston, in particular gets hit hard because it houses a lot of BU & BC students. We cancel lessons because the whole neighborhood shuts down with traffic, double parked vehicles [...]
Thirtysomething
Published on August 29th, 2006 in Personal | Comments Off
Today I celebrate 30 years on this earth. And no, I didn’t come from Mars 30 years ago. I was born here (actually in Binghamton, NY), thirty long years ago. Along with my 30th, this year also marks my 15th year of studying guitar (see how I’m changing the subject). I’ve been playing guitar half [...]
A Broken Man
Published on August 27th, 2006 in Injury, Personal, Teaching/Learning | Comments 1
As some of you know, I’ve been working through an arm/hand injury this summer. At the beginning of May, I took two weeks off from regular guitar duties and immersed myself in a computer project: the redesign of this site. The unrelenting attention I gave to the project and my overall of out-of-shapeness led to [...]
A Mouse In The House
Published on August 16th, 2006 in Personal | Comments 5
Last night I heard mouse activity coming from the kitchen. I was working in the computer room and really didn’t to deal with my resident mice. Around 10:30pm I made an emergency trip to Marty’s to pick up some beverages before they closed. I turned off all the lights in the apartment and went down [...]
uh huh
Published on February 17th, 2006 in Personal | Comments Off
I was supposed to be practicing, but I did this: http://www.vexatori.de/zib/spstudio.html
February Phew
Published on February 27th, 2005 in Personal | Comments Off
Behind the Beat is an amazing website showcasing artists talking about their own music. They have all sorts of artists talking about their latest albums and they edit together to sound like a radio interview. Awesome, awesome, awesome! My NEC audition was this past Friday. Things went pretty well. I nailed the singing portion and [...]
Ear Training
Published on January 27th, 2005 in Personal | Comments Off
I’ve got an audition for placement in a Master’s Study program at New England Conservatory (Contemporary Improv) coming up next month, and in preparation I’m fine-tuning my ear-training skills. A quick search for ear-training software showed an incredible amount of downloadable software resources. I’ve only tried a few so far, but I’ll be back with [...]
Pics by Me
Published on January 22nd, 2005 in Personal | Comments 1
I’m using my verizon page to host my Personal Pics: http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3nthd/
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