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Support GLBTQ Staff & Students in DPS
I’ll be participating in a roundtable discussion on supporting GLBTQ staff and students in Durham Public Schools at Bull McCabe’s at 427 West Main Street in downtown Durham next Tuesday, February 2nd, from 6 – 7:30 pm. The event is sponsored by the Education Team of the Durham People’s Alliance, whose board I’ve just started…
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I’ve Been Working On the Website
I’ve recently begun serving as Treasurer for the Durham Association of Educators, which will introduce the pronounced influence of book keeping financial terminology into future lyrics. You can check us out online at daenc.com, @DurhamEducators, and somewhere on instagram….durhameducators methinks.
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NYC Tix
Tickets are now on sale online for our 2 NYC shows this fall. 10/24 at Union Hall with Franklin Bruno & The Human Hearts and Brice Randall Bickford: click here. 10/25 at Cake Shop with Brice Randall Bickford click here. Set list will differ between the 2, so come to both if you’re nearby!
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Dirty Harry Does Diversity.1: Magnum Tucked In Tweed
One of the weirder phenomena of early 21st century cinema has been the emergence of Clint Eastwood as would-be spokesman for various groups marginalized by the white male power structure his famed ’70’s character Dirty Harry once defended with a famously long phallic symbol. Million Dollar Baby (2004) concerned itself with issues of gender and…
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Let’s face it…
Well, you can’t remain faceless forever. I just started a Facebook page where I’ll be posting more news, and updates relative to a crowdfunding campaign I’m planning for a new record I’m aiming to finish this fall. You can check it out here.
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The Core is Getting Soft.12: Valhalla Freq Echo
“The best things in life are free.” “You get what you pay for.” If cliches are cliches because they’re true, which one of the above applies to free audio plug ins? Well, ca depend. When it comes to the Valhalla Freq Echo delay plug in, the answer is definitively the latter. This gem of…
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The Core is Getting Soft.11: TouchOsc
I’ve always been a latecomer to technology. When I got a fax machine in 1997, someone I worked with said, “Welcome to the ’80’s!” I didn’t get a cell phone until late 2008, and I didn’t get a smartphone until a few months ago. Continuing this trend, I got myself an iPad last week. The…
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Other John Davises.6: John Davis, Shrimper
Disambiguation: the issue haunts all John Davises, musical and otherwise. How to reach today’s web surfing music consumer when your name is ubiquitous? In the record store era, folks had only had to know enough about the alphabet to figure out that John Davis would come shortly before John Denver in the D section. Know enough…