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New release – “Urine and Uranus”

My latest album “Urine and Uranus” is available on all the major streaming and music services. This album is progressive rock in...

My 10th album – The Social Experiment

I can’t believe I’m releasing my 10th album… Here’s “The Social Experiment,” 11 tracks of progressive/ar...

Five Stages is released – 3rd album release this year

My third album release this year, “Five Stages,” is available now on most music services. This album was partly inspired by the ...

New release – Corpus Oceani

Corpus Oceani is live on most of the popular streaming and distribution services! An album about the body of the ocean, this one is all prog...

Head Cleaner is available now!

My latest album Head Cleaner became available on all the major music services on January 7, 2025. This is my 8th general release since 2016....

Swamp Songs is available everywhere!

My latest album, Swamp Songs, is available everywhere! This is a concept album dedicated to swamps – murky, smelly, and ultimately ren...

An Interesting Musical Opportunity Is In Your Near Future is out now!

My latest album An Interesting Musical Opportunity Is In Your Near Future is out on all the major streaming and music services! This album t...

My 6th album, Continuum Hypothesis, is available everywhere!

Here’s my 6th album, Continuum Hypothesis. Just like my last one, I had to hold this one til my day job bonus arrived so I could relea...

My 5th album, Something’s Missing, is available everywhere!

My 5th full release, Something’s Missing, is now available on most streaming and purchase services. This has taken a little over a yea...

My 4th album, Virgin, is out!

My 4th full release album, Virgin, is out and available on all the major streaming and downloading services. You can get links to the most c...

July 5th, 2006 by alephnaught

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My 47th birthday!

Yes, I’m a yankee doodle dandy, born on the 4th of July. Had a quiet day yesterday, mostly finishing up and posting my travelogue for our Spanish trip. Then, we went out to dinner at a very nice Mexican restaurant, Salpicon. The food was really good and it was really loud and busy for a […]

July 3rd, 2006 by alephnaught

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King of the Vagabonds : The Baroque Cycle #2 (The Baroque Cycle)

Title: King of the Vagabonds : The Baroque Cycle #2 (The Baroque Cycle) Author: Neal Stephenson Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: HarperTorch (February 28, 2006) ISBN: 0060833173 I read this book in Barcelona and on the flight home to Chicago. I enjoyed this book but I’m trying to figure out how it connects with […]

July 3rd, 2006 by alephnaught

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Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)

Title: Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) Author: Neal Stephenson Paperback: 960 pages ISBN: 0060593083 Read this book in Madrid and Seville. I like Neal Stephenson and this series seems aimed to please. Its set in the early 1700’s, with action moving between London and Boston for the most part. There’s lots of character development […]

July 3rd, 2006 by alephnaught

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A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines

Title: A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines Author: Anthony Bourdain Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (November 5, 2002) ISBN: 0060012781 Read this book on the way to and while in Madrid, Spain. I really liked this one – I bought it for the trip because we’d been watching Bourdain’s TV […]

July 1st, 2006 by alephnaught

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The flight home

We got up this morning on the 30th, ate, cleaned up and checked out of our room. As we had a couple of hours we walked back to Casa Mila and went to their store – we needed a few more tchatchkes for our friends and families. We got a cab and didn’t have any […]

June 29th, 2006 by alephnaught

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Barcelona – La Sagrada Familia

We got a bit of a late start but that was planned – this is our last full day in Spain and we plan to see the Sagrada Familia, and the English language tour is at 11A. So, we took a cab, bought tickets, had to ask two different people where to get the tour, […]

June 28th, 2006 by alephnaught

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Barcelona

We woke up early, learned that France beat Spain in the World Cup quarters from BBC World, ate, showered and got a cab to Placa de Sant Jaume in the Barri Gotic area. We started with a little shopping at a couple of ceramics shops and then walked to the Sinagoga Medieval de Barcelona, the […]

June 27th, 2006 by alephnaught

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Barcelona

The usual morning stuff, then it was off in a cab for National Museum of Catalan Art (MNAC). Its a large museum on a hill overlooking Barcelona. Its on the same hill as the Olympic venues. The collection is unique in that it has a whole wing dedicated to Romanesque art (art of the early […]

June 26th, 2006 by alephnaught

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Barcelona

We woke up early and got cleaned up, ate breakfast, checked out of the hotel and caught a cab to the airport. On the highway about 10 minutes from the airport, a car in front of us stopped to keep from hitting some road debris (looked like part of a truck bumper), and our cab […]

June 25th, 2006 by alephnaught

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Seville

We got up, ate, cleaned up and checked out – this hotel was very nice. We walked by Iglesia San Marcos (it wasn’t open). We walked over to Convento Santa Paula. We walked back to the hotel to use the washroom and then walked on to San Lorenzo y Jesus del Gran Poder (on the […]

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