BMM11 Behind The Scenes: Wheeling and Dealing
Many Basenoters enjoy Basenotes March Madness, but it’s something just this side of an obsession for me as commissioner of the thing. Suffice it to say that I started preliminary work on BMM12 (March 1 2012) in December 2010. I was simultaneously working on BMM11 and in my first message on the topic to Grant [...]
Great Music Has Emotion. Emotion Makes Great Music.
If you and I were ever to have a long talk about good music, you’d find that I will forgive a lot of sins if there’s real, unfaked, unabashed emotion and energy present. Case in point would be something as American as…grits. (We had a discussion that few to no things were truly an American [...]
BMM11 Behind The Scenes: Unexpected Successes
So the first phase of the BMM voting site has done really well in it’s first two weeks, with 106 different users, 2157 votes and 501 different fragrances in the running at the time of this writing. I’ve gotta say, I wasn’t sure what to expect but I wasn’t expecting that kind of response so [...]
BurritoQuest: The RPG That Fits In Your Hand
This is a fairly freeform post, I’m laying some groundwork for a game I’ve had in my head for nearly a year, and am only now deciding to put the metaphorical pen to paper (bits to hard drive?) and see what comes of it. The game is intended to be funny, but partly because the [...]
On The Love And Loss Of Friends
The holiday season is a trying time for most of us, for a whole variety of reasons. This year, many former coworkers of mine and friends had to deal with the suicide of Jon Vance, a guy that was as intelligent as he was sociable, and one who I never would have thought was capable [...]
Alter Bridge – Ab III [88/100]
Alter Bridge is a group that I was unaware of before starting the 30 In 30 project. Formed in 2004, they’re the oft-maligned God-rock band Creed minus unintentionally hilarious frontman Scott Stapp. I really wasn’t sure what to expect from them as a band, and knew nothing of their new lead singer, Myles Kennedy. Suffice [...]