When I was a kid I used to love to go to the library and listen to prerecorded stories. There was a small table in the kid’s section of the library and at the center was a special wooden box full of strange, baby blue headphones. The cords went secretly down into the floor and …
Category: Sam
Sam is now our new ambient artist in residence. He’s been asking me to bring my “piano” downstairs so last week I hooked up my little midi keyboard and Sam’s being really digging it. Today, while I was washing dishes, I heard him settle on this one sound and a little simple pattern of two …
Sam and I hike up Welch Mountain every week or so during the summer. It’s just a couple miles down the road to the trailhead. We have lunch and sit on the ledge. Every time we go, Sam walks a bit more of it himself and then when I get him in the backpack he …
If the Old Cowboys song had some kind of political undertone then this one comes wrapped and ready for church. Lyrics seem to get formed from the sounds that show up. So the themes usually seem outside my control. That’s probably not really true, but usually I feel kind of puzzled about the words. So …
Every month or so over Waterville Mountain, we see fireworks just above the trees. Why oh why? It’s a mystery! On Sunday night, during our little walk around the neighborhood, we saw them again. We stopped to watch and then decided to head into the dark woods for a better view. Bushwacking through snow and …
We live near a really nice forest. There’s a long path that leads out into various nowheres. And there’s a huge sandpits that we walk to in the summer. In the winter, it’s for sledding. Sherwin did a quick improv piano song. I’m wearing the orange vest thing cause it’s hunting season.
Sam has really been into the idea of invisibility lately. Whenever we walk in the woods, he wants me to tell him stories about enormous invisible monsters. He’s also been giving me invisible presents and last night at dinner he started talking about his new invisible tooth. One he got from an invisible doctor. [audio: …
I thought I was done with the Pennystock chaser…but R&F played the audio with Sam singing and talked about it a little, so here’s a snippet of that… [audio: http://radioghost.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/SamSleevesRF.mp3] There was some milk-and-honey New Hampshire talk, so I thought I’d write a song to set things straight. Even though I don’t think there’s much …
And he reveals his favorite part! (I hope to the lord this is my last post about Ye Olde Pennystock Chaser…) [audio: http://radioghost.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/SamPenny.mp3] And lastly, did you know…I need a job?
We went out walking last night and Sam found a crow feather. He flew it along with us for the rest of the walk saying…tweetie tweetie tweetie! [audio: http://radioghost.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/TweetieTweetie.mp3]
