the scoop:

I AM MUSIC, FEEL MY WAVES.

You have entered into a glorious pool of sound. You are traveling through time with a weightless companion known as music, and as Liquid Parallax as your tour guide, prepare to be exhilarated.

my-own-things

Meaning Language: Is it Meaningful?

Language is meaningful. So what? Meaning is to have purpose, intention, or significance. To signify is to be a sign to express or represent ideas or knowledge. Language can have meaning. But is there actually meaning in the previous sentence? What is Language? Language is transmission of thoughts and ideas through arbitrary symbols of speech,...

Unawarer’s Guide to Paul Westerberg

Yes, I just invented a word, unawarer: n. a person who is unaware or not familiar. And this here is a guide, not a tour guide, but a textual guide to spread the thought-provoking butter that is Paul Westerberg and the musical bread that was The Replacements. If you have glanced over my site you’d...

My Cigar Box Slide Guitar

A few months ago I was working on making my own instrument from a cigar box. There are many guitars made out of odds and ends, and cigar boxes have been popular for do-it-yourself blues players since pre-war legends. Being an amateur craftsman with wood, I made the best out of my skills and the...

Mistakes Make Music (free album)

The following is a review by the author of the album- Mistakes Make Music. Bolie Folke (his real name is undisclosed) was kind enough to let me post his biographical account of the recording below: Today I made an album ready for the public to download using the one-man-band name of Bolie Folke. It’s a...

Tiny Web Design Easter Eggs that Make this Site “Grade AA”

Besides some of the more popular blog enhancements, like a tag cloud, quicktags for comments, and instant page translation, I’ve had a few hidden gems that passing visitors might not be aware of. I like adding the small personal touches: CSS styled Text Selection Not many people change the selection (user-highlighted text) to match their...

My Portfolio is Ready

I have held out long enough in designing a “showcase” section for my website. I decided to gather some goodies for everyone to check out. Portfolio sounds too businesslike, but regular old folks can see what things I created without being a prospective customer, employer, or venture capitalist. You’ll enjoy it if you like art,...

My Free Poetry eBook

I’ve written a manuscript full of bizarre and experimental poems of about 80 small pages. I’d like people to read it if they are interested in a short, but interesting book. I’d let you download a .pdf file to read in Adobe reader. I’ll send it to anybody for free, but I would appreciate if...

I like you. Do you like me?

I am putting together a list of websites about people I know, places I like, people who visit or like my site, and sites that are similar to mine. You can have a look at the LinkRoll now, but it’s not complete. I’ll have a link to it in the sidebar soon. Feel free to...

is this place

I hereby place the following poem in the public domain. (written October 31, 2005) Nature bends its back and the dry mouth of a tall green cactus spins a tornado of heat. Time has turned around, dripping past the sleeper. Wasting away, wasting it may, run away with the wind. New sights of old return...

Hello worlds!

This is my first post. I’ll be somewhere by the time you read this. I’ll be somewhere every time you read this. I’ll be somewhere if you never read this.