Concert notes, set lists and personal impressions fill this category. From the dreamy Americana of Lord Huron to Coldplay’s stadium spectacle and intimate performances at the Dakota jazz club, I share what moved me in the moment.
Last weekend I made my fourth visit to the Winnipeg Folk Festival (previous years were 2006, 2003 and 2001). Tammy was at all of those except 2001. We left Mazie with Grandparents this time. We continue to plan on bringing Mazie every-other year. This years festival was great as …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: 2007 Winnipeg Folk Festival RecapChecking out Tammy and Mazie’s 2008 Folk Festival chairs. Tammy has a footrest!
This was the first Winnipeg Folk Festival since I started using Twitter. I sort of “micro-blogged” using Twitter while I was there. Here it is. I realized afterwards that SMS messages internationally aren’t included in my plan. Oops! At the Festival 10:10 PM July 05, 2007 from …
Keep reading · 5 minutes: 2007 Winnipeg Folk Fest via TwitterFinal preparation underway to leave for Winnipeg Folk Festival.
Getting even happier with my iTunes-centric music world. I should have caved years ago. 🙂
iTunes 7.2 just showed up in Soaftware Update with DRM-free downloads. Guessing I know what Jobs said at AllThingsD.
Listening to John Prine on the drive in this morning.
Listening to Graveyard Shift by Uncle Tupelo.
Hometown, same town blues
Same old walls closing in
What a life a mess can be
I’m sitting here thinking of you, won’t you give
A few thoughts to me
U2’s Joshua Tree was released 20 years ago. Wow – I feel old.
My software needs to start doing more work for me. Really. Either that or I need to get a digital librarian. What for you ask? I feel like I’m dying under the weight of metadata, data about data. The vast archive of 33,000 digital photos that I have, the 400GB of music I’ve …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Death by Metadata
