Category: Culture
Sometimes it belongs in a petri dish.
Video of my sitar teacher, Alif Laila
This is a video I made (I did the editing, someone else did the recording) of Alif Laila performing Raag Zilla Kaafi. Enjoy, and check out her CDs on her website! The video is H.264 format and is 3MB in size. It plays fine in QuickTime. Watch the video
Pictures of Turkey, the eclipse and Soulclipse festival are up
I fixed my gallery and uploaded the pictures that Talia and I took this past week as we travelled around Turkey. We started out in Istanbul in the old city, then we went on to the Antalya area of southern Turkey to attend the Soulclipse Festival near the small town Read More …
Sitar lessons have begun
Today I met with my new sitar teacher, Alif Laila, for the first time. We spent the evening getting aquainted and going over tuning (Ravi Shankar style) and replacing a string on my sitar. It turns out that she’s a tea freak as well so we talked about our favorite Read More …
In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day…
My pirate name is: Captain Davy Vane Even though there’s no legal rank on a pirate ship, everyone recognizes you’re the one in charge. You tend to blend into the background occaisionally, but that’s okay, because it’s much easier to sneak up on people and disembowel them that way. Arr! Read More …
Hey baby, what's your sign?
I'm having a tough time trying to fall asleep tonight, so I figured I would write something here. Recently, as I educate myself on all things astronomical, I came across an interesting bit of info on the Zodiac. As you probably know, the Zodiac was originally laid out 2,600 years Read More …