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There’s something about seeing and being near beauty that inspires awesomeness.  Have you ever checked out some of the amazing handcrafted instruments to be found on Etsy?  They make my eyes happy and my fingers itch to tickle some strings. Just looking at this Ganesh mandolin above is like music.  It’s delicate, original, a touch playful [...]

Pinch me, my music geeker self is swooning with data set magic.  The Hip-Hop Word Count: Searchable Rap Almanac is one of the greatest ideas I’ve seen in ages. A database housing over 40,000 hip hop songs recorded since 1979, what delicious cultural memes and shifts there are to be found in those lyrical battles [...]

All this weekend, I’ve been thinking ‘one week ago right now I was…’: Loving the West Texas 10 hour drive In Marfa, TX Trying to out-eat the Blue Bell ice cream cone drips in front of Frama Singing happy birthday to an old lady in a country church on Easter Sunday Loving a quiet morning [...]