Free Christmas Download

I'm happy to release Let All Mortal Flesh as a free Christmas download. I've loved this ancient Christmas hymn since I first heard it and wanted to create my own arrangement of it. You can download it for free in the widget below.

Interview with Jerry Agar

I had a great time yesterday morning on the Jerry Agar show on Newstalk 1010. We talked about what it takes to be a musician in the city. You can listen to the podcast of the show now. I'm on around the 42 minute mark.

Helping out…

My girlfriend is in the middle of writing a myriad of essays. I decided to help her out with her history of art paper. Needless to say she decided to go in a different direction.  What follows is my text. The Lindisfarne Gospels and the Book of Kells were really freaking interesting because they had

Sentences #20

We are the syncretic. We believe we believe with fervour. Yet we deny Him with our actions, and even our words. "Look what we built in your name." "Depart! I never knew you." "Look what we built in your name."

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Dispatch: Rome to Venice

This post cost me two dollars. We are staying at the Hotel Belvedere (It's a hostel) just off of Venice on the mainland. It is about an 8 minute, 1 euro train ride to the island itself. Our hostel room isn't too bad, but they charge for access to the wifi, which is a little

Dispatch – Madrid

Spain has been amazing so far. This morning found us in Barcelona, where I was really excited because I knew how to get to our train station. Well it turns out that Barcelona has more than one major train station and we ended up running and rushing on the metro to meet our noon train

Dispatch, after the Louvre

I spent today at the Louvre. It is an amazing, yet overwhelming, collection. I spent the six euros on the audioguide, which did a good job of informing and illuminating, but not boring, me. Because one must I visited the Mona Lisa which is bigger than most rock stars apparently. It is impressive, but with

iOS 4, the end of laptops?

iOS 4.0 is brilliant. If only for the keyboard input. Maybe it was a little long in coming, but it makes all the difference. I'm trying to figure out what situations I would really need a laptop for anymore. It is pretty much just for things like music recording at remote locations. Even then, a