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Muddy Waters, Zoey’s and Metro Galleries with Steuart Liebig

Steuart Liebig and I recently had a wonderful mini-tour: Santa Barbara, Ventura and Bakersfield… In Santa Barbara, we played at the Santa Barbara New Music series (run by the contagiously effervescent Colter Frazier) at Muddy Waters …

Kierkegaard quote for the day…

I started reading the recent (2006) translation of Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling published by Cambridge University Press and thought I would share his opening sentence… “Not only in the commercial world but in the realm of …

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KaiBorg says, “Hej!”

I’ve just returned from gigs with KaiBorg, (David Borgo and myself) in Sweden and The Netherlands. David put together a fantastic tour, and with the help of the UCSD music department, I was able to go. …

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May 1968 and…Tea?

A business that was attacked following the May 1968 revolution has released a tea to commemorate the historical event, “The tea, flavoured with lemon zest and rose petals, is packaged in a metal tin emblazoned with …

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Doomed?

In a lecture David Borgo gave today, he read the following passage about trumpet players: “The trumpet, or so we are given to believe, is a most athletic instrument, and most players, through sheer fatigue start …