I’ve never been much of a conspiracy theorist. Someone could give me lots and lots of evidence that the wars of today were engineered by a secret conspiracy within a hidden world government designed to keep the money flowing to the military-industrial complex, and I would still find it hard to believe. I tend to believe in Occam’s Razor, in other words, the simplest explanation for things is likely correct one.
What would you do if someone entrusted you with his or her creative life’s work and you had the power to celebrate or denigrate it, and then you found it, meh… so so?
This is what happened to me 4 years this week. When I bought my ukulele, I kinda charmed the owner of the small, independent music store I had bought it from in Walnut Creek, CA
It’s been quite a while since I’ve blogged on this site. I’ve missed blogging; I keep making promises to myself that I’ll start again but never seem to find the time. One of my fave bands from the 70’s was (is) Steely Dan. I thought I’d do this complex blog talking about their musical styles, […]
The inspiration for covering this song came from my Facebook activity feed. Someone posed the question: “What is your most romantic song of all time?”… This song was my reply. To this very day, I found that listening to the Jennifer Warnes version (this song was originally written by Leonard Cohen and then modified by […]
I’ve performed in front of live crowds 100, maybe 150 times in the last few years. Each venue has it’s particular idiosyncrasies, and my state of mind and preparedness on each occasion varies as well. I’d think I would have gotten used to these variables by now, but last night, I was really thrown off […]
I am mirroring something here, that I just posted over at UkuleleUnderground.com. It’s kind of an interesting story, and I’m certainly curious as what it was that ended up in my hands tonight! I’ll update this blog if any of the ukulele experts at that site (where I happen to be a “Senior Member) come […]
accident videoclip (2:49 min) by LUCIA LIP filmed, directed and produced by LUCIA LIP in august, 2010 accident track (2:49 min) by LUCIA LIP LUCIA LIP: voices, words, music, instruments, programming instruments: microKorg, shure sm58, danelectro de1, boss ds2 mixing desk: yamaha mg 82cx voice recorded by LUCIA LIP in august, 2010 music recorded by […]
– Accident – love and money love and money just a cardrive on the highway and you’re driving too fast you’re drivin’ too fast too fast too fast too fast too fast you might miss the train you might miss the plain you might miss an opportunity again you’re driving too fast i’ll be your […]
One thing about borrowing songs from popular bands with fanatic followings as I have done many times for both making videos and covering songs is that you have to do a good job with whatever it is you are trying to accomplish, otherwise these fans get all over you! I can understand the sentiment. If […]
I was on my front patio today, and saw what I thought was something cute, so I went and got my video camera. Turns out, it was anything but cute. Squirrels. Gotta love em. Perky, fluffy, beautiful tails. Mischievious dispositions. They seemingly have ideal lives of play, food and being outside. But… they don’t live […]
