http://humbletree.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ a songwriting blog en Vox Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:27:45 -0500 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/sanctuary-the-slideshow.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(humbletree) http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/sanctuary-the-slideshow.html?_c=feed-rss http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/sanctuary-the-slideshow.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:27:45 -0500 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://humbletree.vox.com/library/video/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00fa96843cd80003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00fa96843cd80003-50si" alt="sanctuary" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> I have always been fascinated with combining music and images on the web but have been unimpressed with the quality of images and sound on YouTube. A direct upload to Vox offers better sound quality in stereo rather than mono, but the images ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/sanctuary-the-slideshow.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00fad695d1e80005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> escape sanctuary daily grind om aum flickr video http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/misaki.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(humbletree) http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/misaki.html?_c=feed-rss http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/misaki.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:30:41 -0500 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://humbletree.vox.com/library/audio/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00fad68ed77f0005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00fad68ed77f0005-50si" alt="Misaki Blues" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> June already. It has taken me this long to collect my thoughts and images from a trip last Fall to Japan where we stayed again with my wife's sister-in-law in Misaki, a small fishing town on the tip of the Miura Penninsula about an hour and a hal... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/misaki.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00fad68f9b520004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> tokyo japan tuna fuji ronin daikon sengakuji misaki miura kaigan misaki-guchi http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/aum.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(humbletree) http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/aum.html?_c=feed-rss http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/aum.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 28 May 2008 21:42:35 -0500 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://humbletree.vox.com/library/audio/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00fa96789b040002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00fa96789b040002-50si" alt="Sanctuary" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> This one had been sitting around half finished for a couple of years when I decided to pick it up again and see where it might go now. Originally I had in mind a physical place as sanctuary from the world of work and worries, but this time aroun... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/aum.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00fa96793e9a0002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> meditation peace sanctuary chanting om aum http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/andrew-bird-on-songwriting.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(humbletree) http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/andrew-bird-on-songwriting.html?_c=feed-rss http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/andrew-bird-on-songwriting.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:08:32 -0500 Just got an email notice from the NY Times and found a link to a new songwriting blog called Measure for Measure, featuring Andrew Bird, among others, and thought I should share it, if anyone else out there is interested. His fairly detailed des... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/andrew-bird-on-songwriting.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00e398ee571b0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> songwriting andrew bird http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/wag-more.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(humbletree) http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/wag-more.html?_c=feed-rss http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/wag-more.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:15:19 -0500 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://humbletree.vox.com/library/photo/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00f48ceaeb680003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00f48ceaeb680003-50si" alt="wag more" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Captured this bumper sticker on my afternoon trek to the cafe for a caffeine fix and it seemed like a good thing for an old dog like me to keep in mind. Who knows, maybe there is even a song somewhere in that message. <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/wag-more.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00f48ceaeb5d0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> bark wag http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/waiting-for-a-train.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(humbletree) http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/waiting-for-a-train.html?_c=feed-rss http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/waiting-for-a-train.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:34:53 -0500 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://humbletree.vox.com/library/audio/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00f48ce97e040003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00f48ce97e040003-50si" alt="Waiting for a Train" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Trains always seem to provide good material for songwriting, whether about coming or going, or the journey itself as in Steve Goodman's classic, "City of New Orleans". This one verse song started with a common chord pattern finger picked in A,... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/waiting-for-a-train.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00e398eb10f00005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> train songs waiting for a train http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/on-second-thought.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(humbletree) http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/on-second-thought.html?_c=feed-rss http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/on-second-thought.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:04:55 -0500 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://humbletree.vox.com/library/photo/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00f48d05f0840001.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00f48d05f0840001-50si" alt="Cranes in the backyard" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Maybe I was too quick to give up on Spring in my last post. Two days after another record setting snowfall, we just looked out our back window to see a pair of sandhill cranes, back from their winter vacation for another summer in the marsh ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/on-second-thought.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00f48ce735fe0002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> madison cranes sandhill crane http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/will-spring-come.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(humbletree) http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/will-spring-come.html?_c=feed-rss http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/will-spring-come.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:53:44 -0500 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://humbletree.vox.com/library/photo/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00f48ce731360002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00f48ce731360002-50si" alt="heading downtown" /></a> <a href="http://humbletree.vox.com/library/photo/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00e398e8d5020005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00e398e8d5020005-50si" alt="behind the bus" /></a> <a href="http://humbletree.vox.com/library/photo/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00f48d05ec180001.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00f48d05ec180001-50si" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://humbletree.vox.com/library/photo/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00e398e8cc370004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00e398e8cc370004-50si" alt="a Starbucks moment on a snowy day" /></a> <a href="http://humbletree.vox.com/library/photo/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00e398e8cc350004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00e398e8cc350004-50si" alt="bus stop on the Capitol Square" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> My last post was a simple declarative statement of hope and promise that "Spring will come", eventually. After getting hit hard with a major snow storm Friday ("Good Friday", by the way) you begin to have doubts, but in an effort to find somethi... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/will-spring-come.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00f48ce731160002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> snow madison wisconsin capitol spring storm memorial union http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/spring-will-come.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(humbletree) http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/spring-will-come.html?_c=feed-rss http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/spring-will-come.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:54:02 -0500 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://humbletree.vox.com/library/audio/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00e398e750200005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00e398e750200005-50si" alt="Spring Will Come" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> The first day of Spring will be upon us this week, and none too soon. Its been a long, cold winter with record snow in Madison, leading to a bad case of cabin fever over the last several weeks. As we waited for a break in the weather, I decided... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/spring-will-come.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00f48d0467fa0001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> spring winter cabin fever http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/winterlude.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(humbletree) http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/winterlude.html?_c=feed-rss http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/winterlude.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:40:26 -0600 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://humbletree.vox.com/library/book/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00f48ce00caa0003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00f48ce00caa0003-50si" alt="Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Seems like I have hit another dry spell probably brought on by the depressing winter we have been having this year here in Madcity. Record snowfall for the season already, and no sign yet of the Spring that Jimmy the Groundhog promised us back ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://humbletree.vox.com/library/post/winterlude.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf3a1d2facb8f00e398e19a640004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> beatles emi recording abby road