Graham English
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
I just found this video on YouTube.com. Maybe it’ll give you an idea of what life is like in “cracker” Colorado…
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BBC Learning: Fragments Of Genius. This is a remarkable show on autistic savants. I’ve included the link to the BitTorrent file of the show. Here are some of the highlights.
Derek Paravicini is completely blind and autistic. Numbers are difficult and he doesn’t know right from left. Yet he can reproduce anything he hears on the [...]
Some of my favorites:
Wikipedia Musical Genre: User built info for all genres.
Ishkur Electronic Music: Guide to electronic music & sample database.
Discogs.com: Record labels, artists and releases.
MusicBrainz.org: Music metadata tag creator.
Weirdomusic.com: Strange, wacky, odd, and just plain bizarre music.
Mutopia: Free sheet music archives.
Indie- Friendly Radio: Stations accepting indie artists.
Musipedia: Search notation & melodies.
GuitarGeek: Guitar rig database
mvdbase.com: [...]
And he’s not giving away his secrets. Drats! Maybe you can get more out of his sexy gatekeeper than I could.
Graham: Who is Graham English?
ALICE: Some famous celebrity, right?
That’s a good question.
Graham: I wish. Because Graham English is me.
ALICE: Good reason. I hope your dreams come true. Hi, Graham English.
Graham: You’re sweet for saying that.
ALICE: [...]
Yesterday I posted how to get your creative juices flowing with object writing. Today I found a great site that you can use to randomly generate objects to write about. It’s more of a surprise word generator than a random word generator because you have to type a word in first. But at least it’s [...]
From Get Down with the People:
Today I participated in a meeting with a group of senior marketers from one of the largest global companies in the world. At one point the exec who convened the team asked me point blank, “Steve, what’s the most important thing we need to do as marketers in this new [...]
Give me 5 minutes and I’ll show you how to instantly find unique and interesting details to put into your lyrics.
The technique is called Object Writing and it’s so ridiculously easy that you’ll be pissed you didn’t know about it sooner. I learned it from Pat Pattison.
Here’s how it works:
First, gather your materials. You’ll need [...]
Yesterday, I was talking about The Long Tail and how there’s a lot of opportunity in being a filter to lay-people. I’ve been getting some really good quality traffic from being a filter over at Squidoo. Last week my songwriting lens was the 3rd most blogged and my ear training lens was 4th. I was [...]
I was talking to my roommate about starting a blog yesterday and the subject of copyright came up. I told him about the Creative Commons license. As a serendipitous example of morphogenetic fields, these posts showed up in my newsreader: A CC First and Creative Commons has teeth.
Creative Commons Weblog: The first known court decision [...]
As a practice of taking multiple perspectives, I thought it would be a good idea to try to understand the situation in Iraq by reading the opinions of Iraqis. This blog seems like a good place to start.
Just watched Joseph Campbell: The Hero’s Journey
God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all human categories of thought. Even the categories of being and non-being.
NEW YORK - “South Park” has declared war on Scientology. Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of the animated satire, are digging in against the celebrity-endorsed religion after a controversial episode mocking outspoken Scientologist Tom Cruise.
What’s crazy is Cruise is allegedly getting away with blackmail by forcing Viacom, Comedy Central’s parent company, to pull the [...]
Morgan Stanley analysts claim Apple is at work on iPhone. Sweet!
Here’s a funny list of similarities between group therapy and Web 2.0: Web 2.0 is like Group Therapy
From Your best stuff:
So, the question: should you put your best song on the free CD?
If it’s your best song, and it’s free, then no one will pay to get it from iTunes. And if it’s the best song on the album, maybe no one will buy the album since they already have the song.
It’s [...]
A nasty war has been flaming around Dave Winer. It’s sad to watch. I have to admit that since I’ve been reading Dave’s blog for a long time now, I find he has a neurotic attachment to being the victim from time to time. He is only human. It’s nothing a little 3–2–1 couldn’t fix. [...]
From Anything but business as usual:
Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, coined “The Long Tail“: A theory based on “the world of abundance” where instead of being obsessed with the head of the tail–the 20 percent of products that are hits–it’s the remaining 80% (which actually goes on forever) where the biggest money lies.
Main point: [...]
I’m reading the most recent marketing Rebel Rant by John Carlton. You won’t find it online - You have to pay plenty for this information.
The theme is the difference between introverts and extroverts and knowing how to market to each type.
…that understanding human nature means going deep into the head of other people, and allowing [...]
I’m watching the NCAA Final Four and setting up this blog on WordPress. And now that I’m ready to write my first post, the question is “what categories will I create for this blog?”
Which got me thinking about categories in general. WordPress makes you define categories for your blog posts. It’s not hard to do [...]
From Wired: Rock’s First Web Success?
The U.K. indie quartet Arctic Monkeys has built a loyal following thanks to internet word-of-mouth, P2P and grass-roots promotion. Here’s how giving away songs for free can help you sell hundreds of thousands of records. In Monkey Bites.
They encouraged file sharing. They wrote good songs. They broke records.
The music industry [...]
about grahamI'm a songwriter and recording artist who sings, plays keyboards, and explores the vast world of sound hoping to find some magical moments along the way. I'm also a Mac geek.
@icat99 That's the book I was thinking of reading first. in reply to icat99 1 hr ago
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