Monthly Archives: July 2006

Galactic is The Best Band Ever / Workin’ IT Pt. 2

New Orleans funk machine, Galac­tic, is, with­out ques­tion, one of my favorite groups ever. Some­one rec­om­mended “Coolin’ Off” to me back in 1998 and it changed my life. I’ve seen them live at least ten times since and have enjoyed the sub­tle changes the band has taken on over the years in per­fect­ing their sound.

Workin’ IT

Today I went in for an inter­view with the YWCA. I was approved for the work­study pro­gram at school and this was one of the jobs offered to me. I really had no idea what I would be doing, but my expec­ta­tions did involve me work­ing in a small IT depart­ment. Prob­a­bly mak­ing some cables,

The Story of Menstruation

For years I had been told of the exis­tence of a Dis­ney sci­ence film about the process of Men­stru­a­tion. I’ve seen that stu­pid one about the his­tory of math­e­mat­ics a mil­lion times, but never had the oppor­tu­nity to see this one. Every­one pull up a chair and take notes. I am pleased to present “The

Scale Talk

The hard­est part about writ­ing out lessons has been the lack of dia­log in this medium. It is much eas­ier for me to dis­cuss musi­cal con­cepts with another per­son than it is to write out an inclu­sive les­son that explains any poten­tial ques­tions. It is dif­fi­cult to assume the apti­tude of the reader on given