Casual Opera Update: Let’s Chat
We so very rarely chat. Let’s. Green tea or beer depending on time of day are my usual accoutrements. I figured it would be a nice quiet week heading into leaving for London on the 3rd of April to record […]
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The Most Amusing Steampunk Video You Will See Today.
Why would someone make this? Who knows, why does anyone make anything? Wtf? Hell if i know, but if you are sitting at your computer at this moment, crying out “I DEMAND 7 MINUTES OF AMUSEMENT! WHAT IS WRONG WITH […]
Fairy Tales For The Lost And Wandering
Collected all together here in one post is a 5 song experiment in storytelling: telling 5 original, melancholy fairy tales using only piano and voice. How well it’s pulled off is up to you to decide. But not only can […]
Listen To A Dark Fairy Tale: Dear Departed Diedre
For the next few days we’re going to do a track a day of a different dark tinted fairy tale. It’s a… it’s a series of tracks of a work in progress. I honestly have no idea what i’m actually […]
A Trip To The Moon, With Music By Air
In 1902, the very first science fiction film was made, A Trip To The Moon. It was made in France, written and directed by Georges Melies with help from his brother Gaston. Being science fiction it is also therefore the first […]
The Victrola
Best invention of the Victorian age? Probably the light bulb. Telephone is up there. But where would our ipods and CD players be today without the great grandmother that started it all, the victrola. That’s actually not quite right. Thomas […]
Franco-Belgium Comics: Bandes Dessinées
At the center of european comics is the Fraco-Belgium tradition, called bandes dessiness which translates literally to “drawn strips”. Two of the most famous of these have even made headway in the states, Tintin and Asterix. I myself am a huge Tintin […]
Moebius
The second creative death worth noting this last week was that of French comic artist Moebius, 1938 – 2012. Moebius was a key figure in bringing comic art out from a juvenile market and into a more sophisticated artform, worthy […]
Firesign Theater
There have been two very recent deaths which are worth commemorating on this blog. We will begin today with the one that most effects me personally: the death of Peter Bergman, 1/4 of the great Firesign Theater. Firesign Theater is […]
Character Background 4: Byron McAlister
(Note: I’ve put a fair degree of revisiting into the 3rd Act and Byron’s original Character Background has bothered me for some time. It has been rewritten and for kicks and giggles i’m posting the revamped version as today’s post.) […]