http://birdwalking.org Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:55:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's another one-take cover song.  This time it's of Witness by Cyndi Lauper.  Cyndi Lauper has a lot of really good songs that are disguised as bubble gum.  This one was a single take recording the guitar and voice at the same time.  Not at all virtuosic, but I think ... http://birdwalking.org/?p=18 Having lived in the humid South all my life, I've grown up taking water for granted. Now we live in the desert. It rained today, revealing to me that here in the desert I have a near-constant but subtle anxiety about the scarcity of moisture. It's like a dull toothache ... http://birdwalking.org/?p=16 This is an all-voice Garage Band cover of All My Little Words by The Magnetic Fields. The bird noises were Patrick's idea.  Perfect, I say. MAKE CLICK! http://birdwalking.org/?p=15 Today while recovering from jet lag I made this cover of "Woke Up New" by The Mountain Goats.  I really like The Mountain Goats.  A lot of their recordings are done with an old noisy tape recorder, so I thought it would be appropriate to record using the cheap Garage ... http://birdwalking.org/?p=14 Ingredients: package of cubed lamb for stew 1/2 or 1 small red onion chopped fine 2-3 cloves of garlic chopped fine 1 inch piece of ginger chopped fine salt to taste cumin powder coriander powder turmeric powder cinnamon stick garam masala powder (chili powder optional) cooking oil (ghee optional) water chopped fresh cilantro http://birdwalking.org/?p=12 Marcel needed a bio for a non-programming-related web site and through some combination of sarcastic IM messages, I ended up writing one for him. I like the idea of friends writing bios for each other. Even if they're not going to be used. Here's the one I wrote for ... http://birdwalking.org/?p=11 http://birdwalking.org/?p=10 While passing time in London last weekend, I decided to try my hand at a remix of MC Lars's "White Kids Aren't Hyphy", for the Jam Glue MC Lars Remix Contest.  I used the original vocal track and did the rest with Reason in my London Holiday Inn without benefit ... http://birdwalking.org/?p=9 Within the first couple of days that Kelly and I were in India, I became painfully aware of the fact that my little job managing a team in India doing IT stuff for back end business processing at a large corporation was relatively meaningless. Insignificant. That was an interesting ... http://birdwalking.org/?p=8 I have another song fragment I've been kicking around. I decided as I started creating it that it should be called Oh So Fabulous! So far it's just instruments, though I've written some lyrics about how it must feel to be a rubber band wrapped around a number ... http://birdwalking.org/?p=7