Two months ago, I had my cable & internet shut off for a week due to lack of funds. Last month, that time was down to five days. This month, I only had to suffer two days of no-media between shut off date and payday. Whoohoo! Next month, I’ll be current. There are some definite [...]

My father was a country singer, songwriter and guitar player. You can hear his music and read more about him at: http://www.rybird.com/volliebrown.html . He had a 1946 Gibson acoustic he bought new, that I have since acquired. He was a patient man, and showed me all the basic open chords and how to play a few simple country songs

I listened to Rybird’s new album, Music for Interrogation, and it’s a full-on, energetic musical adrenaline rush. Every track grabs you and pulls you in and doesn’t let you go, and then swirls around in your mind for a long time after it’s over.

Music didn’t just give me energy, it controlled me. Depending on the style of music being played, I may have become subdued and relaxed as opposed to dancing. I would really be attracted towards mood music that affected my mood, and dreamy music, that encouraged daydreaming.

Videos from this week in years past… Re-Runs, I know… One year ago this week, we had a big snowstorm here in the Great Northwest, from which I made what I think is a fun little chronicle about biking and busing  in the snow (more on my current transportation situation coming soon). Featuring the music [...]

I’ve been in a bit of video slump lately.  Over the last few years, my videography hobby has had me recording, editing and publishing 10 to 20 YouTube videos every month.  So far this August, I’ve made none.  Zero. Zip.  Zilch. Surely going to back to work doesn’t mean I have to abandon my favorite [...]

Sausage. Who amongst the omnivores here doesn’t love sausage? Going back to it’s origins, sausage is the respectable older sibling of the hot dog: let’s take cuts of meat that would otherwise be unpalatable to the western tongue, grind them up with a few regular cuts and stuff the results into something that is 0usable and easily cooked, I.e., intestine casings.

What would you do if someone entrusted you with his or her creative life’s work and you had the power to celebrate or denigrate it, and then you found it, meh… so so?

This is what happened to me 4 years this week. When I bought my ukulele, I kinda charmed the owner of the small, independent music store I had bought it from in Walnut Creek, CA

If you read yesterday’s blog, you’ll recall the ducks and geese were having a swell old time swimming around the picnic tables at James Taylor Park in Newport. (No, not that James Taylor! General James Taylor, the founder of Newport.) I thought it might be a good idea to head back down there with the [...]

accident videoclip (2:49 min) by LUCIA LIP filmed, directed and produced by LUCIA LIP in august, 2010 accident track (2:49 min) by LUCIA LIP LUCIA LIP: voices, words, music, instruments, programming instruments: microKorg, shure sm58, danelectro de1, boss ds2 mixing desk: yamaha mg 82cx voice recorded by LUCIA LIP in august, 2010 music recorded by [...]

It had been about 3 months since I made one of these “random” videos.  It’s a fun way to do something creative without having to think too much about it.   I watched 7 hours or so of NBA basketball today, so that influenced my decision of the music to use for the background. I make [...]

Many times a transistor especially will cease to function when it warms up or gets hot. So we carefully start at one end and freeze a transistor and wait 30 seconds for the temp to drop before moving on to the next transistor. If we hear that the pedal or electro widget starts working, we have found the culprit

Try to remember that amps times volts equals watts. This is the power formula, and you need to know it backwards too. Watts divided by volts equal amps

If they can put that damned autostart music in a blog, we should be able to post videos again. Let’s see what happens…. var hupso_services_t=new Array(“Twitter”,”Facebook”,”Google Plus”,”Linkedin”,”StumbleUpon”,”Digg”,”Reddit”,”Bebo”,”Delicious”); var hupso_toolbar_size_t=”medium”;var hupso_counters_lang=”en_US”;var hupso_url_t=”http://www.friendburst.com/blog/5940/video-test/”;var hupso_title_t=”Video Test”;

I came across this video while looking for something else. I’ve always liked this song, always thought it was kinda cute (especially the guy at the beginning, sounds like he’s saying, “Hey boy…. hey boy….) This is the first time I’ve seen it with subtitles, so now I know what they’re singing about. So typical [...]