Old Dog tricks

old dog tricks

Having built and run sites for others I thought I’d do one for myself. One which might well die with me sometime in the next ten years (2024 now)

I have assorted notes and jots, usually something existential or sociological or sometimes lyricly if such word is right. I have both a brother and sister who have exerted themselves in publishing works, their own or with others. In fact my wife has two published works. I also intend to do some illustration and display artsy compositions.

A very large desire is to expose more of my music works involving use of hard and soft synths and sonic contortions. Harry J Maurer is producing as the Brainbelly. I’ve done this mostly out of hobby. I’ve done very few live gigs. I did, in my high school years, have an odd audition with Filmore Records. I had been playing guitar around the Alameda high school campus. The Principal is the one who some how set me up with Filmore. I don’t know what they were looking for. Anyway I was way not ready at the time, but it was cool oportunity.

Of some note now is I am 70 years old. I don’t feel too good and have not for some time. I will not really get into that. After all my time may be limited, and perhaps sadly I’m not in a mad rush to have everyone notice me and most of my works will die with me (really?). My older sister died recently and seemed uninterested in getting her final novel published. I think without her to promote the book it will fall flat. I note also that my father’s father was for a time a world traveler and photographer assistant but what all his adventures were about is lost because of (?) since early 1930’s.