Rhapsodic Love

June 2, 2010
In the month that I have subscribed to it, Rhapsody has improved my life two main ways; in class, whenever a student mentions a song, I can almost always cue it up immediately and create a lesson around it (they believe I am a sorcerer) and in the car, where i can drive for hours and never hear a song I've heard before. My six hour drive home from the Cape seemed shorter for my playlist, which was built from albums in the "New This Week" section, including Jack Johnson, LCD Soundsystem, Black Keys, Band of Horses and The National.…

Music Evolves!

May 2, 2010
I saw the band OK GO perform "This Too Shall Pass" on The Colbert Report then saw their videos for the song and am overjoyed by their brilliance. They made two versions, one featuring a giant Rube Goldberg contraption and one performed live with a marching band and choir. Absolutely Amazing. And if you have never seen their first video, dancing on the 8 treadmills, then you should probably watch that as well. Thank Good there are still great music videos despite the fact that MTV has turned into a wasteland of our culture's worst. Interestingly, State Farm Insurance paid…

Ukulele Cabaret

May 1, 2010
My neighbor is one half of Sonic Uke and host of the monthly Ukulele Cabaret, which is an eclectic variety show featuring that wonderful instrument. I joined the cabaret this month and played with a laptop running Reason/Record and a small keyboard, which I used to record loops on-the-fly. This is a condensed arrangement of the sounds I made last night. Ukulele Cabaret 4.30.10 It is far from home-studio perfect, but I love that my studio is mobile and that I can improvise and create a unique recording anywhere I go. O Technology!

Propellerhead Record

March 11, 2010
This blog is written irregularly for sure, but when almost two weeks go by with no word from me, I am concerned. Where have I been these first few weeks of March, if not dutifully transcribing my every move on the ORG? It turns out I have been in front of my computer for most of that time, playing with a new piece of software that is SO MUCH FUN! I have been a user of Propellerhead's synth rack emulator Reason for a long time; it is an amazing studio tool with unlimited sound synthesizing potential, but it has always…

Mad River Glen

February 24, 2010
The Backwardest Mountain is The Best. It is some of the most challenging skiing on the East Coast, with steep gnarly pitches over rocks and through trees covered in the best moguls (thanks to their no-snowboard policy) all serviced by a double and a single chair. While every mountain around it is owned by a ski resort mega-corporation, Mad River is cooperatively owned. It is an amazing ski experience. Eastern skiing definitely means contending with ice and trees and other natural objects impeding your progress, which makes it a very technical exercise, but also makes it more exciting and MRG's…

Happy Together

December 20, 2009
I am lucky to have friends whose media recommendations I can always trust... I had never seen a Wong Kar Wai film before "Internet Poster Person/Stringer Bell" introduced me at BAM and it was quite an experience. Happy Together tells the story of the dissolving gay relationship of two Hong Kong expatriates living in Buenos Aires; it is chaotic and disorienting in the same mostly great way that foreign travel is and the cinematography captures it perfectly, using different speeds and color techniques to make it one of the most visually remarkable movies I've ever seen. There is a beautiful…

The Dead Are Alive!

December 9, 2009
I saw Furthur play at Hammerstein last night and was feeling nostalgic for a time before I was born. Grateful Deadians Bob Weir and Phil Lesh led a great Dead cover band through a classic set, drifting from heavy blues to deep funk and utter confusion to euphoric resolution: I: Truckin > Dire Wolf > Doin That Rag > Ramble On Rose > Reuben and Cerise > Looks Like Rain > Cosmic Charlie II: King Solomon's Marbles > He's Gone > New Potato Caboose > The Other One > Days Between > Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the Mountain >…

Ooooh!

September 28, 2009
New Fall colors! I've been inspired by the leaves beginning to change and so the ORG has been brightened. Also, having realized that I can bookmark this page directly to my main iPhone screen, I took the liberty of creating a special icon for this feature. To add Supergood to your iPhone or iPod touch, just open the page in mobile Safari then click the + symbol and "add to mainpage" button. Enjoy the "eyecon" and content on-the-go!

My Phone Is Instrumental!

September 25, 2009
It must be incredibly annoying to hear iPhone users constantly raving about how amazing these little devices are, so I'm sorry that you need to hear more about it from me, but without any hyperbole, I can say that this is the most incredible anything that I've ever owned. It would be pretty lame and pointless to describe everything I love about this machine, so I will limit myself to fawning over the instrument apps... Drums, piano, guitar, ukulele and synths all in my pocket and I am never bored again. I make music anywhere. Though I have never owned…

iPhone Revolution

July 28, 2009
I just made the iPhone transition and am currently testing my new mobile posting capabilities. I feel liberated! I am sure that soon the thought of a phone that simply places calls will seem quaint as we progress toward full computing power in the palm of our hand. Someday we will tell our children about the mobile computer revolution and they will marvel at our life before personal pocket omniscient machines. Even today, seven years after I purchased my first cell phone, I can hardly comprehend how I must have lived my life in the dark ages of ground lines.…