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The music’s original, and the banner photo at the top was taken by my partner, Gregory Jeffers, in the Western Cape region of South Africa, using a landscape option built into his camera.
Crossing North America
Starting from the East Coast, heading west, a I-IV-V progression, slowed to driving speed with the help of digital sound processing tools. The Pacific, the Native Americans believed, is the ocean of forgetfulness. So this one forgets to resolve to the tonic. And no one seemed to mind.
retrospective
what 1992 sounded like – I thought it was an unserious effort at the time and left it on magnetic tape for 20 years. Played live with electric mandolin, delay, 4 track, drum machine, 2 1980’s synths still use today.
Way behind
Rather than navel-gaze about the origin of my lagging behind on blog or self-named site, this will have to suffice for now. Although there are millions of blogs and identity sites out there now, there was a time when the practice of keeping online notes for oneself seemed like the epitome of narcissism. Something for introverted shut-ins to be consumed with. ‘Take a road trip’, I wanted to tell them. An old friend who has had a stellar career as an internet pioneer, including the early days of nytimes.com, was pilloried by the early bloggers for saying that reading them was like being forced to look at a friend’s scrapbook. Back then, she was right. No one I knew ever predicted that the medium would become so easily, er, ‘monetized’ is the parlance I believe that’s used nowadays.
Another friend who’s a true believer and has profited from online marketing of herself and her products swears that Google loves WP and daily blogging for 6 months or so gets rankings.
Like I care about rankings. Like the man said, however, ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’.
It was time
If you get here by accident or in earnest effort to find and locate James Bigelow’s website, please cut us a break for the ‘just popped out of the WP womb’ look. The developers are planning this out and will be putting up content shortly.