From the monthly archives:
i put two large red inverted cans on top of the bird cages. You may remember I had a hawk problem, well, the smaller one that has been around for the past week turned out to be a falcon. He would just sit on the ledge waiting for the birds to come out. Patiently. Wow, [...]
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Our backyard is quite popular with Hollywood wildlife at this time of the year. We have a grand old persimmons tree that gives us far more fruit than we need, as well as two orange trees. In our backyard, we have possums, raccoons, squirrels, rats, mice, skunks, and all of the neighborhood birds. Fortunately the [...]
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My ongoing battle with rats continues. I have grown to detest the snap traps, which have been referred to as dull guillotines that often just leave the poor rat without a limb or a broken back or some other horrifying wound. It just seems too cruel. So I started looking for alternatives. Wikipedia has an [...]
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Mel and five other people from the production team of HOMER IN CYBERSPACE squashed into my studio yesterday for me to sing 25 minutes of music that I had written. Everyone looked so different, and I assumed their tastes in music would have to be different also. I decided not to worry about it and [...]
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I was really sad to learn of the passing of Karlheinz Stockhausen.
From 1972 to 1976, he was my hero. I wanted to go to Germany and study with this god of contemporary music. I studied his scores with a Talmudic fervor. I loved his constant ability to reinvent the way music could be made. I [...]
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My life over the past week has been catching up at school after being away on a trial, and writing music. Oh yes, and learning to sing it. Mel is coming over shortly and I’ll be singing about a half an hour worth of music for him. I have to say it’s going really really [...]
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Leave it to the French to come up with nifty inventions to sell their wine. Perfect as a stocking stuffer. Must be 18 or older in the US.
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Mel Shapiro invited me to two final classes that are part of the Department of Theater’s music theater program. The students go through the demanding four year course together as a class, so there is great bonding between the students. The first class final that I attended taught students how to sing gospel music (the [...]
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My father has gotten back in touch with the photographer he was some 40 years ago (I forgot to tell you, he earned his living as a Methodist, and later, United Church of Christ minister). I highly recommend his photoblog which consists of exactly one photo a day: a nice amount for this information overload [...]
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One of the unpleasant realities of being a homeowner is the fact that occasionally a rat decides to die in your house–usually somewhere in the floorboards that only a rat could get to. Well, we have one. A dead rat somewhere under the house, rotting in slomo. My nose is pretty good, so I’ve pinpointed [...]
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