Evening in July

Evening in July

July of 2024 has turned out to be incredibly hot in Lancaster, PA. By mid-month we experienced our third heatwave of the summer, second so far this month. Temperatures are consistently in the mid to high 90s and the humidity is stifling. It reminds me of summers I...
My Social Media Debacle (Part 3)

My Social Media Debacle (Part 3)

(Originally posted at EraseTheFilter.com) It’s been nearly five years since the original post in this series was published on September 2, 2019. It chronicled my departure from all social media platforms after many conversations with friends and colleagues and a...
JL: Tape Debacle III

JL: Tape Debacle III

The final installment of my JL “tape debacle” blog post mini-series, which started in this post and continued in this post, wraps up with great news! Last week on May 11, 2020 the box arrived back from The Tape Farm with all of the original tapes intact along with a...
JL: Tape Debacle II

JL: Tape Debacle II

Visit this post to learn about the JL archive blog post series. Here’s a follow-up to the JL tape debacle that I discussed in a previous post. The nutshell was that I after a mishap with my Fostex R8 reel-to-reel tape machine, I needed to find someone to convert a...
Favorite Live Videos #5

Favorite Live Videos #5

On this day six years ago (May 3, 2014) I went to the Chameleon Club here in Lancaster on a tip from an old college pal to see a show he had seen the night before in Pittsburgh. The headliner was the Baltimore based indie duo, Wye Oak, and the opening act was a trio...
JL: Tape Debacle

JL: Tape Debacle

Visit this post to learn about the JL archive blog post series. The first step for me to work toward the Jesters Longevity archive and compilation record was to find as many of the masters that I could, and analyze the effort to remix that tracks we decide to...