been working all night to get up some videos for experiments. will demo this at today’s zoom meeting. see you at 6:30 am sharp.

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How to Listen to the Whole Thing

Today we’re doing something a little unusual.

We’re going to listen to an entire Norton Street play in one sitting. Continue reading →

KGOD Spanish Songbook

There are some languages that seem to be halfway to music before anybody sings a note. Spanish is one of them.

KGOD Spanish Songbook takes the KGOD songs out for another adventure, this time into the enormous musical world of Spanish-speaking cultures. Continue reading →

I want to call your attention to a new book, published just two days ago, that uses the same plotline as my sci-fi novel, SlimeWars, with the difference that my novel sold four copies, all to close friends, and his book will automatially be a best-seller. When you’re in teamplay, it doesn’t matter who makes the goal.

No one single person ever won a team sport trophy all by themselves.

The Breakup by Kurt Andersen, is a modern novel by the fellow who wrote Fantasyland and Evil Geniuses and co-founded Spy magazine. It’s a 576-page novel, but essentially a political/social thought experiment about what happens if the United States actually comes apart, as I’ve been  predicting all along. Continue reading →

Just a quiet evening going through various productions that I’ll be showing in zoom. I’m including a screenshot from my latest 3D game, “War”. Continue reading →

NORTON STREET — LIVE OPEN AIR FESTIVAL

There was a time when music escaped from the building.

It got out of the nightclub, out of the concert hall, out of the recording studio, and found itself in a field with several thousand people, a questionable electrical system, somebody selling handmade jewelry on a blanket, three dogs nobody could identify, and a distinct possibility of rain.

The open-air festival was one of the great inventions of hippie culture. Continue reading →

Spent the night working out a plan for this morning in zoom. See you there! Continue reading →

NORTON STREET BRASS BAND

Stand back. They’re coming through.

Norton Street Brass Band takes the songs of Norton Street out of the theater, out of the studio, and straight into the street—where the horns are loud, the drums are moving, and absolutely nobody has a permit. Continue reading →

ANDERS SISTERS

A Compilation

Three voices. One microphone. And absolutely no intention of behaving themselves.

The Anders Sisters come roaring out of that wonderful musical territory where close harmony meets swing, boogie, novelty songs, torch songs, dance-band brass and sheer vocal mischief. Continue reading →