Without making any excuses, the fact is that my day job is very demanding. I don’t talk about my job very much, here or on social media, and I don’t plan on mixing business and personal now, but I will say that in over 30 years of employment in the private sector, I have neverContinue reading “Shop Update: 2 January 2022”
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Music Matters
It’s been some time since I posted my latest mix (YouTube) Albums. I do these mostly for myself, for long drives and when I’m in the workshop, but I do have friends that tell me they enjoy them. When I was a younger man, music was my affiliation: I was a British New Waver fromContinue reading “Music Matters”
Lineage
Does history matter? My thesis statement more refined is, does the history of an inanimate object matter? On a macro level clearly the answer is yes. Museums are filled with with inanimate objects, left by the ancients in the dirt, in the dusty corners of time, passed on or stolen through the ages. The objectsContinue reading “Lineage”
What is the Objective(s)?
Satori! was a feeling that led me to take action. A sudden bolt of lightning that reminded me that my life clock is ticking. Satori! is an emotion, esoteric and translucent. Maybe it was the fact I’m approaching 55. Maybe the death of my father, father in law, the pandemic and realizing how quickly thisContinue reading “What is the Objective(s)?”
Merry Christmas
Music has always been a place of refuge for me. A passion of mine when I was younger was to make “mix tapes”, cassette tapes filled with songs that I would give to my friends. I always considered them windows into my world and nothing excited me more than years later learning that some bandContinue reading “Merry Christmas”
Microblog: The Albums That Shaped Me Part 2. Albums 7-10
New Order: Low Life. Purchased September 1985 Album 7 of the Albums that Shaped Me review. I bought New Order’s Low Life in September 1985, just a few months after its release. I was drawn to the backstory of the band, the disaffected vocals, the pulsating bass and the analog synths. While many would pointContinue reading “Microblog: The Albums That Shaped Me Part 2. Albums 7-10”