Author: Kier

  • Small Steps, Mostly Out of Sight

    Small Steps, Mostly Out of Sight

    As I mentioned last time, I try to do something in the last 100 days of a year. This time around, it’s nothing terribly specific, more a mundane determination to just get some lingering things done than any grand plans. One of those things was cleaning up my web hosting a bit. See, a bunch…

  • Like Sands Through the Hourglass…

    Like Sands Through the Hourglass…

    Today makes the beginning of the last 100 days of the year. In the past, I’ve done, or tried to do, something special for the last 100 days. A couple of years ago, I kicked off a vlog a day. I succeeded in that, but the more important lesson was… I’m really not cut out…

  • Not Unlike Everything Else I’ve Mentioned

    Not Unlike Everything Else I’ve Mentioned

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    I’m realizing as I go on and try to put songs to the prompts from this list that it’s likely I’m well outside the typical “target market” for this extended meme. Not just because of my “advanced” age (in Internet Years), but because of where I grew up and the access (or lack thereof) I…

  • No, Not the Original… The Better One

    No, Not the Original… The Better One

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    Some songs get covered by a whole lot of people. Very often, they don’t hold a candle to the original. Sometimes, the people who praise them aren’t aware there was an original. Sometimes I wonder if the bands doing the covers ever heard the original of what they’re covering. And sometimes, because of my sporadic music…

  • This’ll Never Get Used

    This’ll Never Get Used

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    Most music for me is distinct soundtrack fodder. I tend to take a narrative view of life, and that lends itself well to movie-like metaphors. Things happen in scenes and sequences. There’s a thread that connects things (whether there actually is or not… y’know, it’s in all in how you watch some movies). And, of…