Some Cool Stuff

It's Been A Long, Long Time performed by Harry James

Love this song. Heard it on the radio today. With Kitty Kallen singing. Recorded in 1945. Also, love that clipped tape sound.

And I like Ella Fitzgerald's take on this song. The photograph's by Gottlieb (Golden Age of Jazz) and taken in 1979 with Dizzy Gillespie on the right.

C. Bechstein, we meet again...

Night Sky

As I was driving earlier this evening I noticed that this vortex-like design in the skyline sort of accentuated the Earth's curvature. You kinda had to have been there I think.

Are We Too Professional?

More Intelligent Life - Are We Too Professional?

Passion and Obsession

I've realized over the last year that there is a fine line between passion and obsession, and yet I still haven't found how to put into words the relationship between love and passion. Within the context of people, I think passion is everything that love is, but I've been wondering if you can have love without passion... It feels wrong to say you can have an impasssionate love, and while I usually go with my gut on things, I am tempted to say you can. Maybe an impassionate love is not that at all, but simply a love not yet grown in full. And I think you can't understand obsession without first understanding selfishness. The obsessed person obviously has nothing but their own selfish desires at heart and will almost always cause damage to both themselves and another. And while being passionate can definitely hurt at times, at least you're not hurting others.

Finished the studio floor

It's 2010

and I spent New Year's Eve at a friend's lake house...

...and they had a cool room with a ping pong table...

...but I feel like this will be a good year. A big year even. I can see some big things happening.