02005-04-26 | Uncategorized
The scene is the same whether you’re strolling by the river or trudging through open fields of flowers. If there’s an ample supply of flowers, there are butterflies. And this year, experts say, there are more of the critters about because of increased rain and snow totals across the Southwest and northern Mexico.
More rain on Sunday and last night. A beautiful slow, drizzly rain that soaked everything. We discover grass everywhere, and weeds that we had not seen in years. The lilacs are about to bloom and the cherry trees are full of blossoms.
Have you ever smelled cherry blossoms? It’s a devine scent, a lovely, sweet and fragile promise of the fruit to come. Our two trees are still very small, but like last year we are hoping for one cherry pie. Funny, I can’t write or think the words cherry pie without hearing Sade sing sweet as cherry pie in my mind.
02005-04-22 | Uncategorized
Ole wrote: Since you finally have La Semana on iTunes – congratulations – does this mean you won’t have as much trouble getting them to carry Winter Rose?
It appears that way. I signed with AWAL – Artists without a Label – and they will digitally distribute all SSRI releases, and not just via iTunes. Next up will be Winter Rose: Music inspired by the Holidays and then Jon’s Transit 2.
02005-04-22 | Uncategorized
Frothy prose aside, it’s extremely interesting to see that Patek Phillipe, the centuries-old watchmaker, has entered the Jet Age by using Silicon wheels that are punched out of a wafer—just like high-tech computer chips. The silicon apparently wears better over time and doesn’t require the regular lube jobs mechanical watches require.
For more than fifteen years, Patek Philippe has been interested in a particular domain: the development of new materials that don’t need lubrication.
They may not need lubrication, but you’ll still have to wind them up.
Patek Philippe, tradition points to the future [EuropaStar]
(Via Gizmodo.)
I love mechanical watches. And no, you don’t have to wind most great mechanical watches, they wind themselves – using the movements of your arm.
02005-04-22 | Uncategorized
I bought the Garmin etrax
GPS unit from amazon. I think it is not the latest and greatest model and therefore inexpensive – on sale for under 90 bucks! Works fine and accuracy seems to be between 15 and 40 feet depending on location. I also downloaded the TerraBrowser, a program for Mac that interfaces with the USGS maps of the USA and shows you exactly where the Waypoint is – on a topo map or a satellite photo. Very useful for those of you who will participate in our GeoCache game this Summer. I am sure Google can help you find PC equivalent software.
02005-04-22 | Uncategorized
I am told that all of La Semana, including the Limited Edition only Bonus Track Market Day, 4 tracks from nouveaumatic – that would be the four for which I own the publishing: Twilight Rain (Red Moon Version), Sao Paulo (Bass in my Pocket), In the Arms of Love (1982 Fragment Version), and Quiet Dawn (Spacedrops Version), and Jon Gagan’s Transit will be up on iTunes within a couple of weeks.
Those of you reading this Diary for a while know that I have been working on this since June 2003, when I tried to get nouveaumatic on iTunes. I am pretty excited about this finally happening!!
The work in the studio is going well, and I am right on schedule. Winter Rose is almost done. I need to do one guitar solo and then fine-tune the mixes. I am glad I am engineering this album by myself, as I did with La Semana, because there is one song that makes me break out into spontaneous dancing every time I work on it…
