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Dorian Green Becomes A Man...or rather, a band.
5-16-2012 9:48 pm
I couldn't objectively say the first full band performance was a huge success, so I'll trust other people's words enough to express that sentiment here. It feels good to have done, but make me eager to improve and expand ideas in upcoming shows. There are a number of songs that did not get played, so there is still material to be debuted a well. We are currently working out summer dates. My newer...
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What have I been doing?
4-26-2012 4:56 pm
Not that I'm obliged to post, but when when a month and a half goes by without any updates on here, I feel a duty to give some words to the people. So what have I been up to? Playing guitar for the most part. I'm preparing myself and making sure all the other musicians will be able to learn two sets of material in limited time for the upcoming show. Basically everything else in my life that has...
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Throw Some DG In Your Life
3-13-2012 11:03 pm
I'm very pleased to announce the debut performance of Dorian Green will take place at Stillwater Pub in Birmingham, AL on Friday May 11.
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Why Am I Wasting My Time With This?
2-29-2012 11:29 pm
For fun and a small chance of cash/public recognition, I made a remix for Beyonce's "End of Time." She's having a competition in which the winner will receive $4000 (not very much money to her) and the opportunity for the track to be on one of her releases. I'll modestly say this is actually the best one I have heard out of about 20-30 random ones, but there are a flood of contestants so it is...
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What's The Point?
2-16-2012 8:33 pm
Every so often it becomes necessary to reassess and clarify our intentions, to ourselves if for no other reason. We all interact every day and fill the void spaces with words that serve to pass the time, making points every so often. I feel sure there is a point when I speak on here, but sometimes it's hard to identify, even for me. So should all this dialogue never happen? Is communication...
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What We're Barely Fighting For
2-6-2012 12:11 pm
When people talk about the idea of world peace they're usually referencing a larger picture involving territorial or religious conflict, and while it's important to be aware of injustice anywhere, there will always be more injustices in the world than we can help or be involved with. So sometimes it's better to think local where actions more readily become visible results. Most of us don't...
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The Newt Scale
2-1-2012 6:59 pm
This election year has brought the return of Newt Gingrich to the public eye, and it's pretty obvious to everyone that he is about as big of a dick as humanly possible. This seems like a great opportunity to calibrate a scale of dickishness around him, with the convenient Newt unit as a measurement of how much of a dick a person is. The scale begins with kind, compassionate people who usually...
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Listening Through Time
1-31-2012 6:09 pm
I think this idea is best summed up in one really wordy sentence. Beethoven composed his symphonies over two centuries ago, and since then, the sheet music has been copied and spread throughout the world, instrument technology, effected by a range from industrial logging practices to metal work to shipping, has mass produced instruments allowing for orchestras all over the world to be able to go...
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Running
1-30-2012 10:13 pm
One of my daily habits I’m trying to cut down on is exercise, which most often takes the form of running. I run outside year round in the Deep South, where the summer can be exerting just to breathe outside for anyone not from here. There are many days I wonder if it’s worth it, but they are more than outweighed by the other days that reach some kind of blissful state, if such a thing can exist...
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What's Going On, and DG Talks Politics
1-22-2012 4:21 pm
Hey everyone, it feels like so much has happened since we last heard from each other even though it hasn't been that long. It's a new year if that means anything, and while I haven't given you any new music on here recently I have been working as hard as ever on all my various projects. I've been writing a lot of songs that are more of a fun nature than deep, often a good quality for rock and...
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