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Pausing to process Seth’s The Practice: “Generous”

03.30.2023 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Blank gray puzzle pieces on blank graybackground

I still don’t know what “the practice” is. (I understand why I don’t, but that doesn’t make it any easier….)

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Categories // Notes and Thoughts, Prattle Tags // cal newport, digital minimalism, music, notes and thoughts, practice notes, rick ruben, seth godin, social media, the practice, the resistance

Seth’s The Practice: “46. ‘Here, I Made This'”

02.18.2023 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Generosity, intent, risk, and intimacy.

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Categories // Notes and Thoughts, Prattle Tags // ai, art, music, notes and thoughts, practice notes, seth godin, the practice

Seth’s The Practice: “6. Learning to Juggle”

01.03.2023 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Someday I’ll try this.

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Categories // Notes and Thoughts, Prattle Tags // criticism, metrics, mixing, music, notes and thoughts, practice notes, recording, seth godin, the practice

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

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

Sixty

09.14.2021 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Manufactured in 1961 sign

Generally, I haven’t been too fazed by birthdays ending with a zero. 30, 40, even 50 didn’t feel that different from other years. But there’s something equal parts weird and mundane about turning 60.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // alice in wonderland, birthday, books, distraction, identities, music, pandemic, youtube

Josie (a song!)

06.21.2021 by Greg Kemble // 2 Comments

Ad from TEAC brochure: a band with the same person as all four musicians.
“How does that Simul-sync function?”

In the early ’80s, I got my hands on my first multi-track recorder: a Teac 4-channel reel-to-reel tape recorder.

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Categories // Music, Prattle Tags // cakewalk, daw, multi-track recording, music, recording, teac

Christmas music… bah!

12.16.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Sheet music for Stille Nacht

I might not mind a war on Christmas, if it meant I wouldn’t be assaulted with Christmas music everywhere I go.

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The wall

01.29.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

I’ve wanted to do this since I was a teenager.

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Angels and demons (mostly demons)

09.17.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Blake illustration of Satan pouring the plagues on Job.

I used to believe in demons.

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