Starving Artistry

One Year

// November 29th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Uncategorized

Incidentally, it was also my one year anniversary with Tay this past weekend. We went out to dinner at the Grill at the Morrison house in Alexandria. It was pretty swanky, a door guy greeted us and everything. I immediately felt under dressed and that I was a 12 year old child.

The Entrance to the Morrison House

They seated us in the corner which was nice. It was dimly lit (bad for pictures, good for atmosphere) and they had a grand piano which I think they have played at least Fridays and Saturdays. As it was, there were only 3 parties eating.


Tay at our seat

We tried the chef’s tasting menu which was delish. We each started with an appetizer. Tay had some apple / duck confit bisque, and I had umami which was a sashimi dish in some sort of sauce. For my main dish I had lamb (of course) and Tay had her duck.


Tay’s Duck Dish

In between courses they served us pallet cleansers (I forget the fancy french word for that).


My Pallet Cleanser

Finally, for dessert we had some sort of apple cake thing which was also good! Of course, for what I paid, it better be!


Tay and the Dessert

One year has really flown by, and just like with my photo and video stuff, it simultaneously seems like it’s been much longer, and hardly any time at all. Here’s looking to the future.

It’s Almost Time….

// October 21st, 2010 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Music Video

// August 27th, 2010 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Trying to get my butt in gear and get this project launched and into the world. I’m just gonna leave this here…

I’m Yours

// December 10th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Uncategorized

A Radiohead Christmas

// December 1st, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Music, Uncategorized

Well, I’m still tracking some stuff for the EP i’m planning on releasing at some point. I decided on what key to play some of the songs in, tracked some scratch guitars, and tracked bass for one. I even remembered to tape myself playing the bass part so that I can possibly put together one of those “video song” things (don’t know what I’m talking about?).

Anyway, a couple of years ago, Matt and I were talking about recording a Christmas album to release to friends and family as a gift, and I still think it’s a fun idea. We had this pretty awesome version of some song going… but then my hard drive crashed. And now I can’t remember for the life of me what we were doing. So in an effort to recreate whatever we were working on, I started playing some different chords around “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.”

Then I realized the progression I was playing was very close to Karma Police by Radiohead, so I tried playing that chord progression on its own with the God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen melody over top. Worked surprisingly well… until the chorus. So maybe I’ll figure it out further, maybe I won’t. But it’s still kinda neat, so I taped it. Here’s Karma Police if you need reference.