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The Watchmen, as a Saturday morning cartoon from the 80s.

You kids should love it.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/485797#

I'm thinking of bugging out.

I mean it.

I have the opportunity to build a house out in farmland, for free.

And I'm thinking of doing it. Building in solar panels, couple of wind generators.

Moving as much off the grid as I can; heating the place with a central stone chimney that will trap and radiate heat - wood stove for cooking and hot...
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Okay, I just turned being snowed in into a lot of fun.

I sat down with my various instruments and tried to sound like a live band, one track at a time. Took tracks as they came, not fixing small mistakes in timing or slight wrong notes.

Said recording setup is not the best either, came out lo-fi. And I thought that my sax work...
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Here's the weirdness.

Sometimes music can move me to tears, especially if it's especially sad or especially beautiful. It's weird.

And I mean tears. I have to choke back sobs.

There's pics of me playing bass and drums, as well as guitar and sax on here.

I've been accused before of being "jack of all trades, good at none".

To which I say:

Sax: played recorder as a kid. The fingerings are similar, and it's transferred well.
Guitar: played it religiously as a teenager, and most of the skill has stayed.
Bass: first four strings...
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Bugger.

For some reason my tenor won't play G#.

Okay, so I went today to a drummer's event in Jersey.

First up was Tommy Igoe. Few people outside drummers are familiar with the man's work, not having bought or otherwise read Groove Essentials. But he did the drumming on the Lion King, and he brought up kids and heard them drum and critiqued them in a good way.

He did a solo and clinic,...
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