From the monthly archives:
Photo by Roger Bourland
Ride 4 Your Life! is a program that developed in my life as a result of overcoming chronic fatigue, self-deprecation, an injured knee, and ultimately, fear of becoming FAT. It became a way of life, a day-to-day application of putting my efforts where they would get me the best results, physically [...]
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Photo by Roger Bourland
My partner, Daniel Shiplacoff, tells all of his friends and clients: BACK UP YOUR COMPUTER! Last weekend, he decided to back up a hard drive, one that he had not backed up for quite some time. It failed the next day. Daniel’s maxim is that ALL HARD DRIVES WILL FAIL, IT’S ONLY [...]
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When I’m either pregnant with a new piece of music, or actually composing, I don’t listen to other music. Instead, I listen to rain, and thunder. I have hours and hours of it on my computer. I have several friends who hate rain and actuallly get quite depressed when it rains. Not me. I love [...]
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You asked for him: he’s back, Shooby Taylor, the human horn.
Some years back, Rick Goetz and Irwin Chusid put together a website devoted to Shooby in hopes of finding out as much as they could about him. Even though they thought he had died, they called every William Taylor in the five burroughs in hopes [...]
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1st Art Gallery has a novel idea: gather a studio of talented painter and sell fake paintings. But why stop there? Morph your true love into the face of Mona Lisa. Now THAT would be a unique present!
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Taken literally, “vacation” means to vacate, presumably one’s home or city or country, in search of some kind of rejeuvenation and rest. Now vacation can mean sitting on your ass for two weeks watching TV, or travelling, or doing house renovations, or putting your old stamp collection in order, or going skiing, or going camping, [...]
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I had the great fortune and joy to know and work with poet James Merrill. I was hired to provide a soundscape for his theatrical abridged version of “The Changing Light at Sandover.” Peter, James, and crew toured with this sit-on-a-stool-and-read show called “Voices from Sandover.” It was pure electronic; pretty, ghostly, ethereal, bat wings [...]
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“I saw the photograph…”
Former Beatle, Sir Paul McCartney is featured on the cover of this month’s AARP (above). He will turn 64 on June 18, 2006. The rather unflattering photo that somewhat graces the cover, is taken from below — a no-no for photographers, that is unless you are after capturing wrinkles, which evidently they [...]
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Photo by Roger Bourland
Heart disease is the number one killer in this country, and most of it is reversible. Diabetes is no longer for the old, it is taking over our young people, and can be reversible if caught early. Diabetes, early signs of heart disease, and obesity are at epidemic proportions. And in our [...]
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A wild bacchanal happened last night at the Moose Lodge in Burbank (CA): the Feast of Fools. James Hendricks, leader of The Briton Ensemble, is this year’s king of fools, and he has taken on the name, Magnanimous I. Very dark there, hard to get much in focus, and flashes were obnoxious. Nonetheless, here is [...]
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