Norm and Joe On The Silver Screen

Hey Everyone, I wanted to let you all know that my brother in-law Norm and Jackie's cousin Joe have made a movie. They sent me the trailer to post up on my websites to get the word out. It looks really good. Check out the trailer for their movie by clicking here.

Joe Miller's Ghostly Images, Nick Hydel and more.

Hey Y'all,

I thought I would make an attempt at updating this blog every other day or so like people are supposed to. We'll see how long this lasts.

A couple of months ago Jackie's cousin Joe Miller had a photograph that he took of his sister Anne Hull's house posted on the "Coast To Coast A.M." website. "Coast To Coast" is pretty much Mine and Jack's favorite radio show. The show tends to center on the paranormal, mysterious, and unexplained which, after music and art of course, are my main interests . The picture contained some ghostly images that are pretty convincing. It was a pretty substantial feat to have a picture posted on the "Coast To Coast" website as people submit hundreds of photos a day. I don't know why I didn't post this before but here it is. People in the know will recognize Joe as "Nick Hydel" from the "An Evening With Nick Hydel" audio that was posted on my main website about a year ago. Here is the link to Joe's picture on the "Coast To Coast" website.

Speaking of "Nick Hydel" I think it's time for Nick to start making some more appearances on my website. Maybe we can create a "Nick's Corner" type of thing where he can interview different people about various topics. What do you think Nick? Richmond's "Good Old Days" celebration is coming up so it might be a good time to dust off the old microcassette recorder.

You can check out Joe and his wife Alida's website here.

You can check out the Hull Family Blogspot here.

I can't think of anything else to write. Stay Gold people, Stay Gold.

Finally An Update Pt. 2

Hello everybody. I am finally getting around to another update. I know blogs are supposed to be updated daily or somewhere near daily but this has proved to be an impossible task for me as of late. A lot has been going on so let me clue you in as to what has been happening.

Jackie and I got back from "The Northern Estate" last night. We had a good time and just relaxed for the most part. We arrived there on Thursday evening. Jack's parents Norm and Sass came up on Friday night. On Saturday night we went over to Jack's Uncle Dennis and Aunt Barb's house down the road. A lot of Jack's cousins were there and I won't name them all as I am bound to forget someone and I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings but they are all great people and it was good to see them. I didn't take any of my usual "toys" with me such as musical instruments, shortwave radio, ect. but I did get a chance to listen to my XM radio on the way up there.

I got laid off from my job two Friday's ago. This is probably a good thing since I now have more time to clean and straighten up the condo being that it is up for sale. We have had quite a few people come through the condo to look at it since it has been up on the market and it is very encouraging. Hopefully we can sell it in the not so distant future and we can concentrate on buying a house.

Now that I am laid off I will have to wait for a little while before I can buy the Paia P9700S modular synthesizer kit that I wrote about last time. I am really looking forward to getting it and putting it all together. I really like getting projects like that and soldering everything together and learning about the electronics involved. It will be alot of fun to be able to sit down with the finished modular synthesizer and experiment.

I have been studying and reading a lot about Leonardo Da Vinci lately. To me Da Vinci has always been the Patron Saint of Creativity. It is amazing to me that someone could be so prolific and productive in so many areas and I have always loved his art. My favorite artist though is still Hieronymous Bosch. I would love to know where he got his visions from. There is nothing to compare to his paintings. I have included some Da Vinci and Bosch painting below for you all to view.

I updated both my main webpage and my download page today. I posted the first ten tracks from "A Beautiful Morning" on the download page. Enough about this music shit. This blog is for other things.

This is probably my favorite of Leonardo Da Vinci's paintings "The Virgin Of The Rocks". 

This is Leonardo Da Vinci's "St Jerome". 

This is "Hell", the right panel of Hieronymous Bosch's "Haywain". 

Hieronymous Bosch's "Death And The Miser". 

This is the center panel of Hieronymous Bosch's "The Temptation Of Saint Anthony". 

This is the PAIA modular synthesizer kit as it is sent to you. 

This is the top view of the modular synthesizer in it's case. 

This is part of what I would be assembling If I bought the PAIA modular synthesizer kit. 

Finally An Update

I know it's been a long time since I updated the sites. Being that it is Summer Jackie and I have been pretty busy. There have been other times when I could have updated but I'm lazy.

I have been getting into electronics again. My parents bought me a RIAA compensated phono preamp kit from a company called PAIA. Basically it is a module that I can plug my record player into and then run it into the computer. This way I can transfer all of my old beloved records onto CD. I am considering buying PAIA's analogue modular synthesizer package. It is a lot of money and I'd have to assemble the whole thing myself but when it is done I would have a modular synthesizer to play with.

Jackie and her parents bought me XM radio for my birthday. It is the coolest. I have been checking out all of the channels. Coast To Coast A.M. is played on one of the channels for 8 hours every night. My favorite channel is probably "Hank's Place" which plays 50's and 60's country music. You can also listen to the XM over your computer if you are a subscriber. Jackie likes listening to it while she's online.

That's all I can think of right now.