Rumours over at Create Digital Music indicate that Brian Moore Guitars is changing it’s name to iGuitar, Inc. How sad. Seems like a bandwagon move to me, especially since BM has been a well-established and well-respected company for quite a while now. They make beautiful, high-quality instruments, and don’t need the dubious i-moniker they’re apparently [...]
Oh gosh, they’re at it again. I don’t get the hoopla over this release. People are saying it revisits their ’70′s heydey, and features an even more ‘stripped-down’ sound (code for “throw out those evil keyboards, Ged!”) than any time since then. The single Snakes and Arrows isn’t bad, but it doesn’t sound markedly different [...]
I have a new rule of thumb – the more time has passed since I saw a particular movie, the less reliable my assessment of it. This weekend, we rented Dead Again, the Branagh/Thompson/Jacobi thriller of ’91. I had recalled enjoying the movie a lot, remembering the intriguing past-life drama and impressive and picturesque black [...]
Looking through the window can you tell me what you see You’re sure you’re really seeing what is meant to be a glass, a mirror to reflect what I conspire a vision, image I desire. Standing on the ice believing all I’m searching for Close your cloudy eyes and chase all that you did before [...]
Spring is here! And the balance of light and dark is at mid-point – right now, day and night are about equal in length, at twelve hours. Anticlimactic as it is, what with the warm temperatures we’ve experienced this winter, still it thrills one a little to know that soon the ground and trees will [...]
According to this CBC story, a group of Danish scientists have discovered that nerves use sound, not electricity, to transmit impulses.