Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
Last night, was Pole-a-palooza 2011 at Ophidia Stuido. Ophidia Studio is owned and ran by my friends Allison and James. They have classes in Pole dancing, Zumba, burlesque dancing and others with an emphasis on fitness. The event was to show off the dancing skills of their instructors and students. Plus, they used this opportunity [...]
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Yesterday, an event occured called Modern Art, at the Modern Hotel as part of the Cinqo de Mayo festivities in Boise. At this event, I, along with about 20 to 30 other people of all ages performed in a Flashmob which we took to calling Flashdance. The idea is, as described by the originator and co-choreographer of [...]
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Local Scene: The Naughties
Just about every Thursday, you can find me at Tom Grainey’s in DT Boise, to see The Naughties perform. They are a local band, fronted by my friend Jeran Dahlquist (the guy with the blond mohawk). They are definitely not your typical cover band. As Jeran explained to me recently, their goal is to make [...]
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40 years ago…
…the world recieved the gift of ME! (That sounds so pretentious!) It’s astounding how people are so surprised at my age when I tell them. However, it is true that I am 40 as of yesterday. To celebrate, I went to my favorite bar on Sunday night, Club 44 for some karaoke with a few [...]
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Last night, I was hanging around at home when I see that Donald Glover tweeted out (I follow him on Twitter) that he and his band had stopped in Boise on their way through and wondered if people would be interested in seeing them do a short set. He announced that he was at Chandler’s [...]
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Hip Hop Class
Last week, I started taking a hip hop dance class taught by my friend @Triana33. The class is held every Thursday at 7PM MST at Heirloom Dance Studio. The cost of each lesson is a very reasonable $10. I’m not particularly good at it yet, but it is a lot of fun and good exercise. [...]
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Reason 5.0 workflow
Below I linked to the latest track that I completed and uploaded yesterday. (here) This is the first track I have completed since I upgraded to Reason 5.0/Record 1.5 last year. It took me a while to get a handle on the new workflow. The Propellerheads created a thing they call “Blocks”. Each block is [...]
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Genre: Electro-House Tempo: 131 BPM I wrote this track this evening. The name was inspired by a series of zombie apocalypse dreams I’ve periodically had over the last couple of years. I had one of them last night, so I thought it was appropriate. Special thanks to @brandiglam for helping me get past my songwriters-block.
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