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  • The "Mix" radio format: "We'll play a song you don't hate, maybe, if you wait long enough."
  • Tunku Varadarajan said Obama on The View was "the apotheosis of the anodyne." Sounds like the antidisestablishmentarianism of a douchebag.
  • My wife says I need to learn to accept praise. She's right, I suck.
  • We just donated a bunch of books to the Library. Or as I like to call it, Closer Than the Dump.
  • hahaaa... putting the "ACH" in "Also Sprach Zarathustra"...http://bit.ly/9XB7k7 [youtube]

Gravitas – Coming Soon

Click here for the official site for news and information about the forthcoming album “Gravitas”, a collection of original instrumental music by Robert George Daniel.

Cat House Moon

Cat House Moon, originally uploaded by rgdaniel.

I just received a request from the good folks at Fluttery Records (www.flutteryrecords.com – site not working at time of writing) to use my image Cat House Moon as the cover of a forthcoming release by indie band Phoenix and the Turtle. Their EP is called “Swallow Up The [...]

Two Acrylic Pens

Two Acrylic Pens, originally uploaded by rgdaniel.

Plastic pens. Hmmm. Do I file this under “Woodworking Projects”?

They turned out better than I feared, and in fact they look better in real life than they do here — I think the flash gets INSIDE the plastic and scatters a bit, causing the visual noise. I toned it [...]

This Day in PROG #3: Phil Collins Swims Through the Audition

[Please forgive the repost of this article. The first one was lost forever, for a couple of hours, until we found a cached version on my lovely wife's Macbook. My cached version was already toast.]

One of my favourite stories from the proverbial progressive rock storybook is the story of how in the summer [...]

This Day in PROG #2: Chris Squire Meets Jimi Hendrix

It’s easy to think of progressive rock as being quite separate from the psychedelic era: PROG is 1970’s  Britain, Psychedelic is 1960’s California.

But Britain had a quite lively psychedelic scene of its own. The Beatles dabbled in it during their later years, and were known to be fans of the emergent Pink Floyd. The Rolling [...]

This Day in PROG History

In the spirit of the revisionism of which I am accused in Robert Fripp’s Diary, allow me to insert this mercifully brief rebuttal. I in no way intended this as an attack on anybody, and am surprised at the anger coming back. I’m just an old fart indulging in some personal nostalgia. And the mystique [...]

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