Bitten by an ape

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Travelogue: Day zero

≈Dublin airport, 9:00GMT
As I spend idle hours at Dublin airport, waiting for my twice-canceled-then-delayed flight to Newark, I browse the magazines on the newsagent’s racks. When I get to HotPress (an Irish music magazine), I check whether they’ve reviewed our album after I had sent them a copy. They have! It’s the third review the [...]

T -20 hours

Packing my stuff; importing CDs to my iTunes; preparing the guitar for the flight; checking, double-checking, triple-checking I’ve got everything – and most likely I will realise I’ve forgotten the most valuable items when already on the plane. Ah, well.
Tomorrow evening I’ll be dining in Chapel Hill. For a month Loz and I will be [...]

Frozen brains and small guitars

Perhaps the unusually cold weather, even for December, has frozen the flux of neurones in my brain:
- I forgot to bring with me from Dublin the software we need to install on our new computer;
- I went to see Lorenzo yesterday and forgot to bring the cable to connect the data hard disk to the [...]

Lorenzo

Happy days!
Please join me in congratulating Loz who has just become an officially published classical musician clap clap clap
Just look at his bio page, the ape is honoured to work with him :)
And, by the way, the sheets of his music are available for purchase on the same pages.
So when we’ll be on stage in [...]

Neglect

And here we are, after a couple of weeks of silence: should I apologise? Probably not. My head is buzzing. I get this funny feeling the goal is forever moving one step away from me; the songs are on-line, but the CD will take a few more weeks. The live experience as well will take [...]

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…the awareness that we are, in this network, dots crossed by numberless lines; that we wear and present to others different masks at different times – to the point that our sense of identity withers away. The creation of our own escapist universe, which is not less uncertain than reality, but delusionally more manageable. Finally, our relationship with technology, at the same time useful and threatening.…

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