After watching the Peepcode screencast on productivity, I made it a goal to get healthier amounts of sleep. After I got Streaks, I got much, much better at achieving my goals much, much faster (which is a blog post in itself). Recently I was showing Streaks to a guy from my acting class and as an ex...

Top 1000 greatest (Q-Music.be) 2008 1. BRYAN ADAMS - SUMMER OF '69 2. QUEEN - BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY 3. GUNS 'N' ROSES - NOVEMBER RAIN 4. METALLICA - NOTHING ELSE MATTERS 5. U2 - ONE 6. ROBBIE WILLIAMS - ANGELS 7. AC/DC - THUNDERSTRUCK 8. DEEP PURPLE - CHILD IN TIME 9. NIRVANA - SMELLS LIKE T...

[image source] Very interesting article on the Fourth Turning , the idea that about every 80 to 100 years, culture goes through a radical reinvention of itself - the time-frame is about every four generations. According to this model,we're due to be in the midst of a change right now. Sounds about r...

        Top 1000 (Q-Music.NL - 2008) 1 COLDPLAY VIVA LA VIDA 2 QUEEN BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY 3 GUNS 'N ROSES NOVEMBER RAIN 4 ROBBIE WILLIAMS ANGELS 5 EAGLES HOTEL CALIFORNIA 6 METALLICA NOTHING ELSE MATTERS 7 U2 ONE 8 BRYAN ADAMS SUMMER OF 69 9 AEROSMITH I DON...

This is the week that was in matters musical … 1878, seminal turntablist Thomas Edison receives a patent for the phonograph … 1956, Bill Haley & The Comets receive a $250,000 guarantee for 21 shows … an unprecedented amount in those days … 1958, the first Flying V is...

Final report on the opening days of the Portland Jazz Festival: In elegant Schnitzer Hall, clarinetist and tenor saxophonist Don Byron had Edward Simon on piano and Eric Harland on drums in his Ivey-Divey Trio. It was the same instrumentation as the Gross-Frishberg-Doggett trio that played the night...

Countless new hip-hop acts  are loved for like they came out 15 years ago — turning modern rap into an ironic party favor. Because ingenuity is rare, those looking for quality in boom-bap dig back. That’s what the Hoarsemen are doing. The sensibility of this four man group from New York...

Sometimes synchronicity strikes in strange ways. This morning I found myself thinking in an uninterrupted flow about how we all tend to float through life  reactively, much aided and abetted by the rhythms of television news and newspapers, and about how we have a near-obsession with trying to make...

Drum circles are passé. Titanium Sporkestra give you the drum octagon. Six drummers and two cymbal-clappers got down on the floor among the customers and brought a Burning Man meets marching band steez to the quarter-filled Neumos. “Feel free to surround us, feel free to dance, feel free ...

Give the Drummer Some's 10 Favorite Downloads from the MP3 Blogosphere (see Comments, below, for helpful info about downloading) What the heck are you doing reading this intro? Sure, my intro-writing prowess has been known to cause IQs to spontaneously combust, but nothing I could say here could...