The site is coming along quite nicely now. I just keep adding little touches here and there to bring it up bit by bit. I am currently chatting with PME 2006 Award Winner, C.C. Chapman, (heh heh) about Technorati. Let’s see if my plug in is working yet…
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Music in my head
I woke up with a Cocteau Twins song in my head, one with a big soaring chorus background vocal, very dramatic. Their song names are so crazy that I honestly don’t know most of them! There was a snatch of lyric, however fleeting, that goes, “You are a woman just as you are a man.” Odd, yes? Anyway, turned out to be “Seekers Who Are Lovers” from Milk & Kisses. I really do love that CD. I prefer their late period material.
I like my horoscope for today: Balancing out the intellect and the heart is a tricky business.
Awesome morning at Bolsa
Took some time off from building the site to enjoy the perfect weather watching the local surfers down at Bolsa State Park Beach. Man! Nothing quite like a great morning outdoors to recharge your batteries. Saw my neighbor pal, Brian Anderson, ripping up small waves when I got there. He is really fun to watch; mad style and makes it look so easy. I just found two YouTube videos of “Loaf” which is cool, because he doesn’t have much of a web presence. Too busy surfing, I guess! Didn’t get stellar shots, but put up some pretty pix on Flickr.
On my Shuffle I was listening to Ghost in the Machine, by The Police, which I hadn’t heard in fricken years. I just picked up the CD through lala.com. Man! It blew me away when I was a kid and I think it still holds up today. People think “80’s music” is all fluffy goofy new wave, but this shit is amazing. Their use of reverb alone is great. But the lyrical content – holy crap – it’s even more true now — “Rehumanize Yourself,” “One World”, and “Too Much Information” – come on!
So… great morning/afternoon. Back to work, I guess!
Chillin’ with Anji Bee Vidcast #7
I think this is the first vidcast I did in one take! Let’s see, I gab excitedly about the creation of anjibee.com, my recent conversation with Julien Smith, getting tea from Tom, annoying Ryan Lum with incessant blabbering about Jules and John Mayer and um, stuff. Just watch it already! (OMG, as I was typing this, I got a notification that JM updated his blog! HA!)
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I heart Jules!
Yesterday Julien Smith and I got together virtually for a special collaborative podcast mashup of The Chillcast and In Over Your Head and just absolutely had a ball! Jules will be playing the first 24 mintues of our conversation and musical mayhem on Sirius Satellite Radio Channel 102 this Friday at 7:30 ET. He may or may not put up the full version on his podcast feed, we’ll just have to wait and see…
MoShang Special Feature – Promo
[audio:chillcast_moshang_promo.mp3]I’m really pleased with how the MoShang interview came out! I made a 1 minute promo to pass around to fellow podcasters to spread this word on this great independent chill out artist. Check it out!
[update: Just heard this promo on Daily Source Code 483. Yay!]
Chillcast Interview With MoShang
It has been quite some time since the last Chillcast Special Feature, and I had a lot of fun putting another one together for you. This half hour program highlights MoShang’s brand new CD, Chill Dynasty, as we talk about the entire history of Jean Marais’ jazzy, worldbeat, downtempo project . You can buy MoShang’s CD directly from the artist himself at moshang.net.
Continue reading Chillcast Interview With MoShangChillin’ with Lovespirals Episode 24
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Ryan and I talk about his upgrade to a Mac Mini running Parallels, the mysterious stink of his old iBook, PodShow forgetting to renew their domain, my launch of anjibee.com, plus I read a touching fan email from MySpace, share my own fan story of Robert Cray, Cocteau Twins and more.
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Gathering and Sorting
Life honestly seems to be a constant process of gathering and sorting. So much of my time is devoted to this activity. Sometimes I think I should be more classically Buddhist by trying to not own things. I’m not even always aware that I’m collecting things until I notice that I need to organize them or discard them. My house is so tiny that it can’t fit many things in the first place, so just a few things can really make it seem crowded or messy. I’m at a point now where I look around and see small stacks piling up here and there which drives me crazy.
I’ve been listing many CDs on lala.com just recently, but of course, more CDs come back to me… So my large stack of unwanted CDs will be replaced with a similar stack of wanted ones. Which is better, I suppose. I’m stil in the process of digitizing my whole CD collection, which is pretty time consuming. I made smaller bit rate files of many songs back in the early mp3 days, so I’m trying to replace those with 320 aacs now. Plus I’m adding in the artwork, too. Gathering and sorting. Oh, and deleting.
The Chillcast with Anji Bee Episode 33
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I can’t even tell you how stoked I am about this show! Killer tracks hot off the press — 3 aren’t even officially released yet and the other was a special permission track from one of my all time favorite musicians! Way too cool…
Tracklisting:
- Robert Cray “Twenty (Live)” from Live from Across the Pond (2006)
- The Baldwin Brothers “Leave the Past Behind” from Return of the Golden Rhodes (2006)
- Sunburn in Cyprus “Change” single (2006)
- Kobo Town “Abatina” from Independence (2006)
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