bamAlam
Teaching myself bass: always meant to learn, never got around to it. Finally dove in when, as I got further with my drumming return, I found that the fingers on my left hand were pretty much useless - and remembered that running scales on a guitar or piano always helped. So, to merge the rhythm and the melodic(ish) - and check off a bucket list instrument - bass. Her name is bamAlam.
CLOUD (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2024)
Wanted to love this, but the third act didn’t live up to the promise of the first two; far from “kinetic.” (***/*****)
victory is mine
It was a messy, cold, mucky, multi-day fight with a stuck motor, but victory is mine: the pond waterfall runs once more.
metal_0086 :: chernabog
First warm weather of the year, first big(ger) piece of the year. FANTASIA's one of my favorites, and "Night on Bald Mountain" is, as The Beatles once said, "the toppermost of the poppermost."
And here’s a fantastic shot of Bela Lugosi providing Chernabog reference for Disney animators:
And, Chernabog in his new forever home, Painted Ivy Tattoo.
