Rick McLaughlin | Bassist
The Continued Evolution
A quick note about updates to the site. I have been spending most of my blogging time working on how the site operates, rather than uploading new content. The new features include: Get updates by email – click the orange button (RSS) in the upper right hand corner of the front page. There are a [...]
Menomena Rules
Yes, Menomena, like the Muppets tune. The tune that has been permanently lodged in my brain today is by a Portland, Oregon-based group, Menomena. The tune “Weird” appeared on a music blog, and I just sort of half-listened for a moment. Then the tune knocked me out and since then any spare moment I have [...]
Here Now
Here’s one from the spring that never got published: One of my students brought in the Ray Lamontagne CD “Till the Sun Turns Black” recently. We listened to excerpts of Be Here Now, Empty, and Three More Days. Via a music blog, I listened to Be Here Now several times, almost obsessively, and have since [...]
Just ask
Ask and you shall receive. I guess that’s the moral of the story. Yesterday, I said that I wished that the Cutline theme came in a 3-column version that had the content in the center. I said that, sort of apologetically, and in the context that sort of felt “Oh well, short of that, I [...]
On Themes
Who knew that choosing a theme – the design for a blog – could be so time consuming? I strolled over to Emily Robbins’ Comprehensive list of 980+ themes, and also stumbled around various other related places, and have managed to waste much more time than I dare admit to myself. So what you see [...]
