January 14, 2009

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  Haven’t written in while!

  It is bitter cold here, with wind chills in the -25 thru -35 range.  We won’t even get
  an air temp above zero today-tomorrow’s supposed to be worse.  We hardy
  Minnesotans still get out and about for appts and shopping.  The poor ole nose sure bears
  the brunt of the wind and cold!

  Have had some deja vu stuff going on, (unless it’s my poor memory, acting up).
  Some ESP runs in my family, and I totally believe in the
  supernatural.  What things have you had happen to you?
  I had an experience when I was under for heart surgery.
  Didn’t know if it was med-produced or when my heart stopped,
  but I dreamt I opened a white door, in an all-white area,
  and people were smiling and partying and all wearing white.
  It was like an all-white ‘Moulin Rouge.’

  A poem you say?  Haven’t written one in quite a while, I will
  try, off the top of my head.

  My fear is in loving a man,
  losing my freedoms
  making room for decisions
  do I have it in me?
  
  Can I see two
  when years of one have been?
  is it my ‘duty’ to sacrifice
  my golden years
  of picking up socks?
  
  I crave the silence,
  I crave the alone time
  when chaos rules
  and others’ voices are shutup.
  
  I’m independent and stubborn on my own
  I’m willful and rebellious
  and sometimes angered at differences.
  I’m number one!
  
  

  There, that did it-ok.

  Want to hear clips of music?

  Here is some:

  The K&D Sessions
  Kruder & Dorfmeister
  1998

  Viennese DJs Kruder & Dorfmeister helped teach the raver world to chill with this iced, heady concoction of downtempo, drum ‘n’ bass, and trance-tinged hip-hop; it’s become a true classic of downtempo electronica. The K&D Sessions evokes a time during the late 1990s when trip-hop was sweeping New York, Los Angeles, and Europe. DJs played in retro-décor-filled cocktail lounges, spinning for the thrift store chic hipsters and future James Bonds of downtown. Peter Kruder and Richard Dorfmeister used tracks from other DJs and groovy 1980′s stuff like Depeche Mode as the canvas to create new works of art, trailblazing their way through the clubbing throngs and back to the VIP room, where they’ve saved you a seat on the comfiest couch.

  A remix of Roni Size’s “Heroes” opens the double-disc set with a shuffling beat, deep-bottom synth bass, echoed-out female-vocal samples and a swooping 303 bass line. “Jazz Master” takes 1960′s sexy Italian-cinema grandeur and filters it through the drum ‘n’ bass spectrum until the song echoes like a dream. The deep bass notes in “Speechless” will root your spine to the center of the earth while drum and bass rhythms cascade over everything like rain. Bomb the Bass’ Justin Warfield steps to the mic for “Bug Powder Dust,” which is steeped in Williams S. Burroughs references but also finds time to reference everything from the Australian 1980′s band Men at Work to obscure films like the 1979 astrology/basketball movie, The Fish That Ate Pittsburgh. That mix of the otherworldly and retro-friendly pervades the album, coaxing open the door between the comfortable and the unknowable.

  Disc two assumes that by now you’ve floated pretty far out, and K&D are in no hurry to bring you back. “Bug Powder Dust” gets a deep space re-remix, and “Boogie Woogie” and “Lexicon” (both original K&D compositions) are so chill that they stop time cold. By now the sun must be coming up, and whether you are part of the scene that spawned this album, you’re doing the postrave chill session, the deep headphone-voyaging, or just using this as aural wallpaper while you clean your house, you can’t help but feel cool to have this music on.

  	Listen to all sound clips from this CD
  “Jazz Master” “Bug Powder Dust”  Click on all of these!! “Speechless”

  
  
  

  Buy this CD

  I am reading a book called ‘Nice’.  It’s like Bridget Jones goes mad.
  This young lady murders men after she dates them, but it is done with
  humor and wit. 

  

  Keep warm!!

  I love you!!

  

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