So I get this speeding ticket in Columbus GA, for traveling 40 in a school zone during the restricted hours when the speed limit is 25. Here is the scoop…

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Christmas fishing again, this time with Captain Rick Muldrow out of Yankeetown. We had a great time drifting grassbeds for trout and came home with a bunch ready to fry up. Delicious.

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Mick called me yesterday or the day before as his car was heading into Manhattan from the Brooklyn/Queens side of things. He was listening to the radio and a bluegrass version of Hey You by Pink Floyd came on the radio. It was a nice gesture and reminded me that I had to upload some of these pictures. When you leave a place you've lived for awhile you miss the people that you knew the most. Also, the place itself lives in my mind in the same manner of someone loved deeply who is no longer around.

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Last weekend decided to see if I could get some decent simple drum sounds out of my Mac. Cubase requires an external midi device but GarageBand has this pop-up keyboard that maps to the actual computer keyboard. Setting = Rock Drums or something. Had this idea floating around for sometime, and I have not quite been able to communicate the actual feel of the idea. This was the big opportunity… and here is the first mix:

Diblopop

This one is in the spirit of the great masters of afropop.