Freezing in Car

Whew! Well not much to report I’m afraid. I’ve been sick. Practice is suffering due to the snow and I’ve been busy with home and work related issues. However, I feel some kind of weird obligation to post at least something on here haha.

-Richard

Nine Tiny Feet

Ok, this is completely un-music related. However, I have some kind of bizarre obsession with tiny micro homes. The Tumbleweed Tiny House Company being my favorite. However, I just saw this gentleman’s blog where he is trying to imagine “extreme” living arrangements. It’s called Nine Tiny Feet, (http://www.ninetinyfeet.com). I don’t know if I could live in his bike-tow-able pie house, but I still get a kick out of looking at it lol.

I wonder if there is someway to modify a Tumbleweed home and to put a GK acoustics soundproof booth in there. Hmmm……

-Richard

Pablo Amaringo

Sadness. Well, today I found out that one my favorite artists passed away. Pablo Amaringo was a Peruvian shaman and visual artist whose ayahuasca inspired paintings allowed a window into the world of the ayahuasquero. His work was most prominently featured in the book Ayahuasca Visions. Sad times indeed.

-Richard

Practice Space

So, I practice in my car. I don’t have anywhere else to do it really. I can “kind of” lightly play on my electric indoors. Nevertheless, there is no way I can play my acoustic because I don’t want my neighbors on the other sides of my walls to hear me. Singing gets even more embarrassing. Today however, I found a great new spot to park my car and jam in the back seat! So far no cops this time either. Mwhahahaha! So yea, hurrah for secret practice spots.

-Richard

Myspace…

Oh man, I signed up for myspace again. Scary stuff. It’s been a few years, but after some somewhat creepy lurking activity I found a few old friends of mine (physical humans, not the “myspace friends”). I’m curious to see how their music has been going. Evil social networking craziness * shudder *. All right, end of rant, back to songwriting shenanigans.

-Richard

ReverbNation/CLLCT

Alrighty, I think the old songs are now up on Reverb Nation. It's a fairly interesting site I think. If nothing else, I like their mp3 player haha. And now... on to loading things into CLLCT. For those who don't know, CLLCT is a great website for free indie music. Personally, I just discovered the music of The Sarcastic Dharma Society. Oodles of awesomeness abound.

-Richard