The Seaboard Parish (excerpt)

“Certainly not. Tell me what you are full of care about, my child, and perhaps I can help you.” “You often say, papa, that half the misery in this world comes from idleness, and that you do not believe that in a world where God is at work every day, Sundays not excepted, it could

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mosquito bites and temptation

the other night I was sitting in bed with my wife, scratching the daylights out of my foot – which had recently been bitten a couple of times by mosquitoes. It seemed the more I scratched the bites – the more inflamed it got, and the worse I needed to scratch. It was an old

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my friend jimmy

ok – so I am listening to Exile – liking the rawness – the skruddiness if you will, and I think – I’m gonna too! Fired up the kit and voila – ‘my friend jimmy’ hops out my friend jimmy My friend jimmy says he’s OK Everyone I know just looks the other way No

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miss your bliss

new vox, new percussion, new and improved – presentable even….this will mark one of the finals for the album. I will be posting some other stuff here in the upcoming days – new songs that have been bubbling to the surface – dunno which will make final cut yet – but the album is nearly

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epiphanies

my lack of posts is not due to sloth – but rather a lot going on. This is actually a bad excuse – because what I have planned will include (God willing) a combination of work and blog. Have you ever heard the saying ‘if you have something that needs to be done, give it

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music work

I hope you guys that are waiting for drums and production work can stay patient – I am trying to do a number of musical projects in a number of locations – I hope to be getting a few things out in the next day or 2. In the meantime – why not go on

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musician

music, music, music, drumming and songwriting, preparing a band and looking for a name – may have a contest for that if we don’t get somewhere soon. Music and the muse, muso’s and the scene, Virgils in the pews, grass is gettin green, smoke is risin higher, fat is sizzlin hot, people do aspire, and

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severely driving drums…

spent a lot of time today on a totally new tune – one of the most driving and fuzzy growling concoctions I have ever made. Dunno exactly why I did it – some tentative names might be ‘bang’ ‘bones’ ‘ho’ or ‘skrugs cacophony in A” – will post something later.

new mix via Texas and Mexico, South Padre…

you have heard of Texicana, or Texmex…howzabout Texmix, or Meximix? What would you say if I told you I was working on my music while down in Texas and Mexico this weekend? What would you say if I told you I was enjoying some very nice weather while A/B ing some sonics? What – can’t

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New Song! hear the drum