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“A survey of grief experiences”

02.12.2023 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

I wrote a new song, centered around a character’s experience of grief.

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Categories // Music, Prattle Tags // album, grief, survey of grief experiences, york grief study

Things I’m learning about recording

01.11.2023 by Greg Kemble // 2 Comments

Mixer faders

It’s nice being a beginner again.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // andrew sheps, billie eilish, finneas o'connor, mixing, recording, steve lillywhite

Happy fifth!

01.09.2023 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

The number 5 painted on a white-painted window.
Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash

Five years ago, I wrote my first post on Oh Ick.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // barbara ehrenreich, bright-sided, fiction, fictionary, iceland, john david irvine, short story

The best thing on TikTok

01.07.2023 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Screenshot of FlickerSpark's TikTok page

I should have included this in my best, etc. of 2022.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // death, flickerspark, martha, tiktok

The best, etc., of 2022

12.29.2022 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

2022
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

Somehow I missed my “best, etc. of” post for 2021.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // a go go, aging, album, apnea, bagels, blade runner, bread cloche, cakewalk, cancer, chloe grace moretz, cpap, daw, goodreads, jack reynor, jeff beck, john scofield, low-iodine diet, metrics, neuromancer, outdoor elvis, pattern recognition, qwali, react videos, recording, the matrix, the offspring, the peripheral, the reign, the swirling eddies, twitter, westworld, william gibson

Approaching Seth Godin’s The Practice

12.27.2022 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Young archer aiming at a target.

I don’t finish enough things.

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Categories // Notes and Thoughts: Godin's The Practice, Prattle Tags // practice notes, seth godin, showing my work, the practice, writer's block

Notes and Thoughts on Austin Kleon’s Show Your Work

12.26.2022 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Blackout poem: "I write what I want to read."
Newspaper blackout poem from Austin Kleon’s website: https://austinkleon.com/2014/06/11/mission-statement/

I’m afraid that all I really needed from this book was the title: Show Your Work.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // austin kleon, brian eno, david byrne, ian svenonius, john scalzi, metrics, notes and thoughts, outdoor elvis, paul bloom, piper cj, pragmatism, rick beato, robin sloan, seth godin, show your work, sidney lumet, sting, the night and its moon, the swirling eddies, tim ferriss

I’m back!

12.22.2022 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

"Grand Re-opening sign"

What’s the point of a blog if I never post?

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Categories // Prattle Tags // austin kleon, elon musk, music, social media, tiktok, twitter, youtube

RIP, Dan

03.06.2022 by Greg Kemble // 3 Comments

Portraits of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche

I’ve lost a colleague and, more importantly, a friend.

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Color of the pen (a song!)

12.03.2021 by Greg Kemble // 2 Comments

Abstract blue ink

I plan to write about the process of recording Color of the Pen, much as I did in an earlier post about my previous song, Josie, but I’m drowning near the end of a semester. Someone asked for the lyrics, though, so I figured that shouldn’t take as long as a full post.

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Categories // Music, Prattle Tags // lyrics, music, recording

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