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Brian Bilbrey October 23, 2016

23 Oct 2016

A good week for theater! On Wednesday, we attended Poe... And All The Others, a new play by Tony Tsendeas, as presented at Reynold's Tavern by the Annapolis Shakespeare Company. Last year's production of Poe was one of the first shows we saw from this company, and it was a good show. This year's production, again featuring Brian Keith MacDonald and Renata Plecha, is simply superb! The new script is much stronger, but still works very well in the confines of a dining room at Reynold's Tavern. We turned up at 6:45 or so, and enjoyed a good salad and…

Brian Bilbrey January 13, 2012

JoCo Artificial Heart Package

Among the contents therein is the signed CD, which I most incautiously tore whilst attempting a manual decoupling of the liner notes from the case. Sigh. So I used an obtrusive and intimately personal repair method: thin strips of electrical tape. They seem most appropriate, given the title and image of the album. The good news is that it also arrived in Vinyl!

Brian Bilbrey October 4, 2011

Is Not and Is ... Insanely Great

Some of the folks I know are really disappointed that today's announcement was only for an iPhone 4S + some new iPods and release dates for those and for iOS 5. I pointed out that if all the features and guts of the new phone were in a angular new skin (like some of the "leaked" photos showed) with a bit more screen resolution and it were called an iPhone 5, they'd be drooling. There was general acknowledgement of this, yet and still, "it's just an iPhone 4S, argh!" There's no pleasing some people. Of course, it doesn't please me…

Brian Bilbrey June 8, 2011

More Zoë

Zoë Keating, last night. Two items of interest: First, Wil Wheaton introduced me to Zoë's music with this blog post. Second, listen to Zoë talk about her music and play in Musicians@Google: WNYC's Radiolab + Zoë Keating. In the latter, Zoë describes how the version of each composition gets selected for an album, and how that relates to what gets played live. When she loops and layers music so intricately, there are infinite variations for every work. I could recognize the bones of nearly every piece she played last night, but deeply appreciated the nuance and freshness of each piece.

Brian Bilbrey June 7, 2011

Zoë

Just back from Ram's Head Live, where we saw the amazing Zoë Keating. Did I mention amazing? There's more to say, but I'm whacked and it's a school night. We had great seats, at a table abutting the stage. I cannot recommend enough seeing Zoe live - she rocks!