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For the last year or more I have been gradually getting back into making music. It's been slow going, partially because of the learning curve of new audio tools I'm working with, and also because I've been uncertain what sort of music I want to be making.  One thing I know is that I do not want music to be my primary creative focus like it once was (for about 13 years ending in 2003).  Filmmaking is still what I take the most seriously. Music is something I now want to do mostly just for fun.

So, I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do and how, but it will be more "accessible" than the experimental and noisy sound collages I used to specialise in, and it won't be so serious. Read more>>>

• 10:56 blogging about a great Elizabeth Kolbert piece in last week's New Yorker: steev.hise.org/content/how-shall-we-live-our-lives #
• 12:19 hating how some people put question marks at the ends of statements. even when writing... get some backbone, ppl! confidence! #
• 12:23 figuring that, if a song gets stuck in your head all morning, it deserves to get 5 stars in iTunes. unless you hate it. #
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In a New Yorker review of Jonathan Foer's book "Eating Animals", Elizabeth Kolbert provides another poignant and moving look at personal responsibility.   I find the second to last paragraph particularly resonant: Read more>>>

• 21:01 re-arranging my books. #
• 22:37 watching behind-the-scenes footage on the Girl 6 dvd. interesting to see spike lee work. he's quiet. focused. #

author: Haruki Murakami

name: Steev

average rating: 4.04

book published: 2001

rating: 4

read at: 2009/11/16

date added: 2009/11/17

shelves: fun, novels

author: Robert Jensen

name: Steev

average rating: 3.60

book published: 2007

rating: 4

read at: 2009/11/17

date added: 2009/11/18

shelves: spirit-self

• 08:02 chopping up almonds to put in the apple-cinnamon(almond) scones that greta's making for me. yumm. #
• 16:40 realizing that in terms of self-serving propaganda, i have to say that DHS has a better press section on its website than the DOI. #

• 11:45 charging battery on new camera. yay. #
• 12:08 trying out google wave. hmm.. #
• 13:20 reading about feminist masculinity, if that even is possible... icio.us/vy2eg1 #

• 10:42 looking online 4 other people's pics of our float in the all souls procession. hundreds of people were taking shots of us, so where r they? #