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“Good Work, Roger” (Organ)

December 14th, 2008

Another song-in-the-works by Organ (like Fall)

I’ve been working with a (very solid) web developer called Roger; one of my messages to him included, exactly, “Good work, Roger” at which point I recalled this work in (now-stalled) progress. It’s more than a bit “London Calling,” but veers into cool places.

Here’s a hacked-together 2:30 ’song:’ Good Work, Roger

These outtakes include Brian (guitar) and Igor (bass) getting fed up with my miscounting -

“Static”

December 5th, 2008

The context, in general, is deaf education. My sister’s taught in Deaf Ed for ~30 years and has shared interesting stories about the state of things - different sign languages taught from class to class, teachers and administrators fighting among themselves, with parents, with students; students much of the time having emotional and cognitive issues in addition to “just” being deaf, etc. This atop everything else that happens in high school with friends, family and self. From a student’s perspective, the story is dark noise and static; from a some teachers’ perspectives, some hope.

Here’s the current cut.

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This duo writes music, shoots and edits video and are all-around Drag Racing ambassadors.

I’ve helped a bit prepping video for their MySpace and YouTube sites. They’re tremendously popular on all fronts.

Genrih Hudackov is a poet, a collagist, designer of fashion, translator of Shakespeare, and more.

Hudackov has an admirer in Leonid Drozner, who has been in pre-production with his ideas re a Hudackov documentary for some time. We’ve now begun Production of Leonid’s documentary.

Some First Looks at Hudackov’s art and the first reading he gave us Day One of the shoot.

The Parade Sales team got a band together for the 2008 National Sales meeting in Florida this past January. Here’s The OSUs’ intro and first two songs.