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OMNIBUS

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

1. There is an awkward dynamic at play in computer-less temp jobs, when it comes to downtime.  It worries the boss if you whip out a book, because then other office workers will think, “Oh, look, a temp with no work to do.  Somebody is wasting the company’s money.  And that’s why we can’t afford [...]

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MUXTAPE-ISH

Monday, September 22, 2008

Not sure how long this will last, but there’s a new muxtape-like site that takes the audio from youtube videos and makes a playlist out of them:  MixTube.
Here’s a playlist with the songs from my a cappella rock band’s latest album:
http://mixtube.org/playlist.php?id=150

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YOUR NORMAL VOICE IS AN ANGRY VOICE

Thursday, May 29, 2008

A while back I tried to write a novel about demonic possession and a cappella music, but it didn’t work out. Then I tried to convert elements of the novel into song form, and the results were… hard to listen to. I’m good at writing lyrics to fit music, and terrible the other way around.  [...]

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I WON TWO PRESTIGIOUS AWARDS

Friday, April 4, 2008

http://www.casa.org/content/view/1212/242
Well, not so much I, as my band.
Well, not so much my band, as my a cappella rock band.
And not so much prestigious, as prestigious within the a cappella community.
And not so much prestigious within the a cappella community, as prestigious within the small fraction of the a cappella community that cares about professional groups [...]

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