So grateful to be part of a thriving local #music community, and getting to take part in some lovely events like Sunday afternoon's gathering in the woods, where friends played for friends and new friends, and we all just basked in how beautiful it was. #musician #musicians
nostr:npub1006fxtkvj9dtfm84v3eue220v89pdlr8zvq448ap8m2fcee57c2q2pdph0 We know there's only one hotel those funds are meant to flow to.
There is just very little that's better than a winter hike. Back in our old home stomping grounds for a weekend. #hike #hiking #winter #UpstateNY #TroyNY #PeeblesIsland #Cohoes #CohoesNY #trail #trails
Forgot to post my #SundaySong on Sunday – that's how the weekend went. This is a simple #piano and #bass cover of a song by Gin Blossoms, "As Long As It Matters." No one seems to know it, everyone seems to like it.
#CoverSong #CoverSongSinger #CoverSongs #kalaUBass
nostr:npub1eradhy2cj70udz2353u6mlkccnls7qgqq4xcdjs3dk0ds62jykesyy78gu I've used Arvixe for many years for both domain registry and webhosting. Not the best for support, by far not the worst, but you can point your nameservers wherever you like. As for privacy, I've never seen any issues coming from them. I'm not a very tech person, you may have specific needs.
nostr:npub12hxruac9ekvyqayn35up0zdt3hs4zlyfuxzjhv0dkhvcuhrvcn2swwg0au One town where we used to live touted their new kayak dock. Great. They made it accessible – not for kayakers, but for wheelchairs. Great. That meant they put in a low railing all around that made it utterly impossible to safely launch a kayak from. I just found a safe bit of shoreline to launch from instead.
nostr:npub12hxruac9ekvyqayn35up0zdt3hs4zlyfuxzjhv0dkhvcuhrvcn2swwg0au I like that setup. I mostly avoid docks if I can. Most docks for motorboats that I've encountered are far, far too high for either of us to get in or out of our boats. If we can use it, on bigger water, or in boat traffic, the boat's just gonna get banged around against the dock anyway, so if I can get out, I'll pull it out.
nostr:npub1kvxefpdyw7k3ehp8khdtjpv6tx9cj0pfkh7dfkcqsjmfaptghr0qfw2yu8 Thanks so much!
nostr:npub1nua29dqq26r0xqt37wfnrky50gfzgyf4gvjf2sv22nt823wd9y0q9jyqhq nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx Thanks, and I didn't say that from direct experience, but from a couple of books on French culture that portrayed the French that way. But "What do you do in life" is a much better question, one hardly anyone in the US would ever ask.
Most of my friends and acquaintances are musicians or artists, and almost none of them ever ask what we do for work . . . we ask about music and instruments and painting and so on.
I'm starting a Partridge Family tribute band called "Susan Dey Drinking."
#ImaginaryBand #OpenMic #OpenMicNight
nostr:npub1zgz73xp327gct05z50asahenu4zjduygs0ga4djp27equzqsed5qcpwjwg Never mind that, there's a Country Joe record I don't have! ;)
Feeling very low energy today, so pulled up something I'd already recorded and tried to shape it up. The result is this week's #SundaySong, an old one from the '90s called "Superman's Song" by Crash Test Dummies.
Vox and keys live, with some #KalaUBass and an echo-ey Steinway sample added in #AbletonLive
#musician #CoverSong #CoverSongs #CoverSongSinger #singer
nostr:npub12hxruac9ekvyqayn35up0zdt3hs4zlyfuxzjhv0dkhvcuhrvcn2swwg0au I wasn't sure the weather broadcast still existed. Last time I tried it on my walkie talkies I got dead air. Will have to try again; useful in the areas without cell service.
"He Taught His Baby Vile Oaths"
This stacked headline from the #AlbanyNY newspaper sometime in the 1930s caught my eye. Reading the story, no question the vile oaths were the least of it.
#OldNewspapers #Newspapers #NewspaperClippings #headlines
Sunday, so #SundaySong time! Suddenly rediscovered Gin Blossoms because they're so fun to play bass to, and decided to try singing a couple of their songs. So here's "Mrs. Rita," drenched in amateur #AbletonLive production and with some video synching issues I could explain, but won't. Thanks to everyone who listens.
Keys and pad are #midi, vocals are multiply overlain, only the #KalaUBass is real.
#music #musician #coverSong #CoverSongSinger #CoverSongs
nostr:npub1mus8u06snnf3srvx65j968nla4h93c7ahjt8y9r5nwvrrnm4ek2q7tlhp7 Sooooooo good
nostr:npub1qmf3z25nay68rzy46wepvh2klnarxhp8x34jrafnc2feuucnw5msvsunzr I'm on my third act, maybe my fourth....
nostr:npub1qmf3z25nay68rzy46wepvh2klnarxhp8x34jrafnc2feuucnw5msvsunzr Lots of herons down here on Schuylkill, including some that behave very strangely (at least compared to my upstate NY understanding of heron behavior). We have one that flies over the boro every afternoon about 5 pm like clockwork.
Today's #BikeRide – what has become my favorite route of the summer, with a long sweet climb up Hollow Road leading to the blazing, straight, safe descent of Green Lane. Fewer deer, but not zero, despite the heat of the day. Almost no cars anywhere, which was pretty sweet. 47 km, 836 m of climbing.
#cycling #Bicycle #RoadBike #BikeTooter #RoadCycling
nostr:npub1fuyxu7jvr0jcj6pgdgheshpg9rzlrm4hlxlq8el3v5htffelc2ds4gs0mr Wow, I hate that categorization so much.