“The spirit of the drum is something that you feel but cannot put your hands on. It does something to you from the inside out.” – Babatunde Olatunji
Over the weekend I was hanging out with my pals Toby and Suzanne. Who, aside from being generally fabulous, also seriously rock sound-ey stuff.
Toby was doing a drumming [...]
Less stuck. Less struggle. More awesome.
The Bridge That Goes Boom
Gnomes. Polar Bears. And Drums.
So a couple of months ago I bumped into the fabulous Bridget Pilloud on the twitters (she’s @petsaretalking) and through her equally fabulous blog.
She wrote this awesome post about the unconscious. Which I retweeted. Because it rocks.
And, like one is wont to do on Twitter, Bridget and I started yacking it up.
Then she oh so [...]
Sound Off #1: Shiny Golden Awesome (aka How To Pick A Singing Bowl)
This is the blog-ey bit where you get to toss out whatever sound-ey sort of questions you want, and I answer them.
Kind of like a Dear Abby for sound stuff.
But with less angst. More fun. And ninjas.
We can yack it up about how this sound stuff works.
Or get all geekity about instruments.
Or talk about [...]
Eff The Odds (aka Cat Nuggets)
I was going to do another Weird Instruments That Don’t Suck video this week.
Because I have this very weird, very non-sucky instrument to show you.
Except I’m doing something else.
And I totally blame the cat.
Well, to be more specific, the kitty.
So, really, a cat nugget.
Putting Tim on pause
See, last night we found a [...]
Grooves. Gaps. Static. And Stuck.
Every illness is a musical problem.
Its cure, a musical solution. – Novalis
Sometimes life is just plain sexy.
Things are good. Like seriously-rockin’-and-rollin’ good.
You’re totally in your groove, feeling the flow. The volume is turned way up on the awesome. Cool stuff is happening. Things just fall together in a way that almost looks like magic. And [...]
Clutter Clearing For The Soul
Sometimes life is hard. And messy. And full of ack that frakking sprays all over the place.
Being covered in ack spray is pretty craptastic.
And maybe you didn’t shake it off quite as well as you thought you did. So the hard stuff starts to pile up. There it is hanging out in your head, in [...]
Now That’s Ninjarific #2 – The Mechanized Muse Edition
One of the best things about the interwebs is that it’s filled with lots of groovy stuff. I mean, sure, it’s also filled with lots of crap and bunches of snooze. But some stuff is so ninjarific that it just begs to be shared.
Thus the advent of the Now That’s Ninjarific series.
Now I have a [...]
Lose Yourself In Love
So for the last week or so I’ve been feeling a little blech.
A little tired.
A little overextended.
A little rough around the edges.
Plus I had food poisoning. Which was totally sucktastic.
Pretty much all of this blech is caused by an old habit I have. A habit of working way too hard for way too [...]
Sankofa Song video blog – Episode #1: Weird Instruments That Don’t Suck
So all week I’ve been trying to find a few minutes to record this video. Between the roofing roofers on my right and the hammering neighbor on my left it’s been maddening pretty much impossible tricky.
This morning I saw my window of opportunity and snatched it with the quickness.
And I’m totally stoked to say Houston, [...]
The Sex Pistols Are Spiritual Too
If you hang around sound healing-ey people long enough you’ll inevitably bump into the discussion of spiritual music. It usually goes a little something like this.
Sound Healing-ey Person #1: If you really want to keep your vibrations high, you have to listen to music that’s spiritual.
Sound Healing-ey Person #2: Oh, definitely. Otherwise you won’t be [...]
Now That’s Ninjarific – Premier Edition
One of the best things about the interwebs is that it’s filled with lots of groovy stuff. I mean, sure, it’s also filled with lots of crap and bunches of snooze. But some stuff is so ninjarific that it just begs to be shared.
Thus the advent of the Now That’s Ninjarific series.
Now I have a [...]
Biggie Size It.
You want a cup of water. So you measure out eight ounces of gorgeous H2O. And then you pour it into a cup that only holds four ounces.
Three things happen.
The water overflows and spills everywhere.
You probably cuss. A lot.
And, most sucktastic of all, you don’t get your water.
Of course, it’s totally obvious why this happened. [...]
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