Category: Mu-crit
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The Music Mechanic: A Requiem
Can you write a temporary eulogy for something you have to kill but may someday resurrect? A little over 7 years ago, I made a Facebook post a reality. I posted, “God, I wish I could just get a job soldering all day.”. I’d just brought a synth I bought from a friend for $100…
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Searching For Analog In Digital: Synthesizing Prepared Piano
I got the chance to score a short film. I got the opportunity because I took a pretty audacious step in creating my first piano piece this past Autumn. It was audacious because I do not play the piano. Well, not well anyway. Piano was actually the instrument I started out on, but guitar was…
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Scoring A Film For The First Time
I gotta tell this whole story, cuz it’s everything I love about life. Scoring a film has always been a backburner dream of mine. I figured maybe it’d happen someday if I put my songs out there, but, it’s happening the other way around! I don’t write a lot of instrumentals. I get songs beamed…
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Tyson vs. Paul: An Existential Bout For The Ages
Midnight on Friday, November 15th, the biggest boxing match of all time fizzled out anti-climactically. News outlets claim it broke several different kinds of records, but who knows if that’s true. See… There’s a problem with objective journalism on the topic of this match: Jake Paul was involved. Netflix was too. They hosted the streaming,…
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I Was (Almost) A Teenage Zionist
Do you consider yourself woke? Do you relish the epithet “SJW” as a badge of honor? Do you see the situation in Palestine / Israel and feel sick? Do you wonder what the hell America has to do with it, why we fund Israel’s apartheid state? The answer is much weirder than you may have…
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Morrissey Code
With the news of Sinead O’Connor’s passing, headlines this week have been a flood of tributes. This is to be expected, that’s what happens when a celebrity passes. Everyone comes out of the woodwork to regale the world with even the most tangential connection to the deceased. Sinead wasn’t your average celeb, though. It isn’t…
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Another Damn Tube Screamer Review
I’ve finally come to my senses.See, when I was a kid just getting into playing guitar, if there was one symbol that summed up everything I hated about guitarist culture, it was the Ibanez Tube Screamer. Even back then, when you could buy a Roland Juno 60 for $150, Tube Screamers cost way too much…
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Appetite For Introduction
(welcome to the junkhole) Bowing to popular demand, I blast off on a solo venture at long last. B-side of the moon or bust! Follow me as I go off-groove, venture to the flip-side. Fuck Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, AV Club, let’s challenge some conventional wisdom, huh? I’m gonna share my hottest takes, point blank off…
The B-Side Of The Moon 