Isn’t it always the way. The song you most hate is your big money maker. Why doesn’t the public ever like anything good? I first heard the Macarena when my kids were little. I thought it was a children’s song.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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A small magical creature who calls herself “Bubbles” appeared at Amazing Coffee yesterday. Patron Joey Bob Beckwith was taken to Samaritan Regional Medical center due to a nice pair of D’s that Bubbles bestowed on him by magic, and also,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I love the bossa nova tunes of Tom Jobim, especially when performed by a master like Gal Costa. Wave is one of my favorites. Learning a tune in all twelve keys is a lot of extra work, and the truth[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Did you ever ask a question and the answer was all good stuff but it was an information overload? Too Much Info, Dude! TMI! Um, yeah. This actually is a simple little chant funk tune but the fun comes in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This comic about Tix’s best friend Susan (a professional harpist) is probably a little bit esoteric. The harp is essentially a diatonic instrument. Pedals allow you to sharp or flat all the B’s for example. If you want to play[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Improv, when it works, is like magic. It is a huge adrenaline rush to take the solo then realize that everyone is watching you expectantly and you have no idea what you are going to do until you do it.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was thinking the other day about why humans universally hate certain CGI movie characters, and it’s because they freak us out. They are not quite human. Then I was also thinking about how complicated it is to get the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Accordeon kind of sounds like an organ. But accordeonists are always smiling and laughing and drinking, even while sucking most egregiously. Unlike organists, who tend to be anal, fiddly perfectionists who never let anything bad happen through sheer force of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is my most elaborate toon to date. I’m just trying out various techniques that seem to fit the subject at hand. To make this toon I took some clip art and applied cartoon filters several times in GIMP. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…