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Decided to make a not-so-easy listening playlist of songs featuring the 11/8 time signature. Fun stuff is up first, unnerving stuff in the back. Hope you like it 🙂
Donald Duck Dunn Anthology
Bassists get a bad rap. Or more often, they don’t get any rap at all. Most people, if asked, would likely be able to list off a favorite singer/songwriter or two. Guitarists are similar, and some people might even have a few favorite producers they like. Drummers have the occasional Neil Peart or Dave Grohl, and even have their own unique brand of jokes about how goofy drummers are. But what recognition do bass players get? Often, not much. Despite…
Year One with Athena
A Brief History of Scientific Inquiry into the Homing Problem
“But as to how memory of home can direct innately the journeys of animals, we have no answer. It is a question with which science has struggled manfully. It is a question as profound as any which biology faces today, for within its unknown answer must lie qualities and properties and potentialities of which we have no least knowledge.” – Robert Ardrey – The Territorial Imperative (1966) Why Birds? After half a year of being too busy/uninspired to post anything…
Well, I’m Back
After two months and around 6,000 miles, I’ve made my way back to Alaska. I’m all recharged and just about ready to get back on the grind, but I figured I’d take one last post to retrospect on the trip a bit. It really is crazy to me how quickly it all flew by, but I guess that’s how time off goes. While I was driving through Carcross, I hit a sort of lonely section with no cell/data/radio in the…
To the Lonestar State
Ash Fork Vegas and Bruno Mars were amazing, but my plans of hitting the Grand Canyon afterwards were soundly put to sleep by a dead alternator right outside of the Sonoran Desert. I’ve honestly been broken down in worse places, but sitting around in 95 degree heat with a busted vehicle also wasn’t my ideal use of that particular day. Expectations aside, I ended up spending a day in the scenic town of Ash Fork, AZ while my car got…
kal-uh-fawr-nee-uh
The Redwoods and Klamath Heading from southern Oregon to northern California was easily my favorite day of driving on the whole trip. Just beautiful everywhere. I did have to laugh that I saw my first burned out trees about three minutes after passing into California, but the forests are just absolutely gorgeous. Before hitting my campsite in Klamath I stopped off at a vista and then relaxed a bit at the campsite. Nothing too crazy but I figured I’d get…
Pacific Northwest
Mt. Rainier National Park After a very nice break in Seattle visiting family, I got back on the road and started hitting up the trails again. After a short(ish) morning drive away from the SeaTac traffic nightmare, I made my way to Mt. Rainier National Park. Since I still had plans to do some driving later in the afternoon, I chose the Ranger Falls trail. The hike up past Ranger Falls up to Green Lake is a beautiful and quiet…
I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone
I couldn’t think of a better title so I used another of my favorite lines from The Hobbit. Since my last post I’ve made my way through Canada and back into the US while simultaneously making my way into The Lord of the Rings audiobooks as well, so it will most likely be several months before I’m able to retrain my brain so that not everything is a Middle Earth reference. Title ideas (or a lack thereof) aside, here are…
The Road Goes Ever On and On
I finished the audiobook of “The Hobbit” recently and I can confidently reassert that it is easily one of my favorite books ever. No allegory, no topicality, none of the incredibly long deliberative sessions or historical digressions that flood the Lord of the Rings trilogy… Just a wonderfully creative story made for the sole intent of entertaining. I love this book so much that I would even go as so far as to say that it is the most influential…