Published on
February 5, 2010 in
Personal.
I visited my friendly neighborhood musculoskeletal specialist yesterday evening (happy birthday me!) to find out why I’ve been all achy-breaky of lately.
Apparently I have an extra sort of half-disc, where the below-the disc part tried to grow another one while I was cooking.1 Not at all related to the discomfort (which is just the regular old untreated strain from years ago which slowly compounds) but as the doctor said, “you’re more interesting than you thought”.
And I already thought I was fairly interesting…
In other news, we’ve been window-shopping at some slightly more rural-y houses the last few days. It’s always been the 3-5 year plan to move on to somewhere with at least an acre or so (look at me with my anachronistic measurements of area), but a few little cul-de-sac related goings on have got us considering bringing the plan forward a tad. Just tyre-kicking at this stage, but with an open mind toward stepping it up. My garage-studio conversion has never really hit its stride, and a couple of the places we’re considering have nice out-buildings, so that could be a plus 
1. I’m using “cooking” here as a euphemism for growing in the womb. My spine didn’t just decide to whip up some extra parts while I was making tortillas or something…
Published on
February 2, 2010 in
Music.
Another online collab (I’ve got a couple more on the way as well), this time composed by the irrepressible David Wozmak. I’ll also give Don Nafe a shout-out for wrangling parts from multiple continents together into a cohesive rubato-styled performance that sounds like it could all have been in the same room. Oh, and Oberlehrer (whose real name I don’t actually know!) if only for the amazing second-verse piano. Oh, and the bass is amazing… and Mudcat on the guitar… and… and… and…
Sidenote trivia – these are my scratch vocals, recorded to an early piano track only, through a PG58 into an Mbox2 Mini. It was always intended that I’d re-sing them once the final(ish) accompaniment was compiled, but I had a cold, so that version was not quite as good.
Join
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Published on
February 1, 2010 in
Music.
I was privileged to be the vocalist for this online collaboration a couple of years ago. The song was written by the immensely talented Steve McAllister, whose blog I have just hyperlinked for your browsing pleasure.
Paper Heart
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Published on
February 1, 2010 in
Photo.
One wet Cavoodle, Bruny Island, iPhone.