At first I was handling Summer until the hot, HOT temps came a creeping in and then it was time for it go. I can’t really complain about Summer because it did come at the right month here in the Midwest instead of April and May like had been in the past years but all and all I’m glad it’s close to the back door and Autumn will be walking in the front door. My geek sister tells me the reason why I probably dig Autumn because we all have been conditioned as children to because when  school has always began.

Why this talk of Fall? Because when I was listen to the playback of this playlist, (I always do this before the final podcast to see if the tunes flow together for my liken) I was waiting on my queen and the temperature was really nice, there was a nice breeze blowing and the songs took me back to Autumn. Funny thing, looking at most of the tracks it will take you back to a warm climate; from Special EFX’s “Miami” and “Lady from Rio” to Acoustic Alchemy’s “Jamaica Heartbeat” to Artie Traum’s “Moroccan Wind“. So deep down this may be way of saying farewell to Summer.

I’m trying to get back into the habit of trying to put together podcast that are close to or may a little over an hour. Believe me, I was tempted to add more tracks but I stuck to my guns and I have to say I’m quite proud of myself (this one comes in just under 57 minutes)

I think you will enjoy this set of music. This is my “Acoustic Bliss” series where I showcase most of the music mostly from an acoustic point of view with the acoustic guitar in mind.

So as always, Be Blessed, Be Safe, Have a wonderful weekend and work week.

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Playlist for o4September2010

o1. Miami – Special EFX {from the “Masterpiece” album}
o2. Overland - Alex de Grassi {from the “A Windham Hill Retrospective” album}
o3. Jamaica Heartbeat – Acoustic Alchemy {from the “Back on the Case” album}
o4. Mean Low Water - Artie Traum {from the “Meetings with Remarkable Friends” album}
o5. Lady from Rio – Special EFX {from the “Peace of the World” album}
o6. Affair in San Miguel -The Rippingtons {from the “The Best of the Rippingtons” album}
o7. I’m Falling – Earl Klugh {from the “Peculiar Situation” album}
o8. Reference Point – Acoustic Alchemy {from the “Reference Point” album}
o9. Sixth Sense – Wind Machine {from the “Voices in the Wind” album}
1o. Moroccan Wind – Artie Traum {from the “Acoustic Jazz Guitar” album}
11. Southern Dog - Earl Klugh {from the “Peculiar Situation” album}

underscore music by Todd Kelley and Nicolay
photo by Amarie

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I can’t believe I’m sad that Vox is no longer going to be around after September 30. This is not in a bad way I’m saying this I just mean I’ve met some really cool people through Vox. To me Vox was the “nicer” version of Facebook.

I first heard about when I peeped in on my twitter account checking tweets aimed at me and there it was from my photo sis @Liv_Luv_Diamond,

“@myloveformusic2 @ItsMsJ2u @mission2be did my other tweeps hear Vox is closing 9/30?”

jaw dropped.

I went over to my Vox account and sure enough here is what it said…

“Vox has been a fun place to explore, create and connect with your friends. But Vox is closing its doors on September 30, 2010.

This doesn’t mean you have to say goodbye to your blog. We want you to make sure you can keep the great content you’ve shared on Vox, and continue to have a home for your blog. To help you make the transition off of Vox, we’ve added new export features that make it easy to move your blog to a free TypePad account, and your photos & videos to Flickr.

If you’re an active Vox member we encourage you to read the information below about what’s happening during the month of September, and learn more about how you can migrate your content.[ http://closing.vox.com/ ]”

Mena Trott

Wow. That’s all I could muster out. If you didn’t join Vox in the beginning (I joined September 26, 2006) this may seem kinda hokey but people connected on Vox as in marriage. People became partners in regards to starting blogs, podcasts, where we swapped ideas. For me Vox had something that Facebook will NEVER have…intimacy and being safe. Even though Six Apart is allowing people to move their post over to TypePad it’s not the same. Six Apart owns TypePad and Movable Type but still, it’s not the same.

For me when you marked your post as private, they were private. When you placed photos or audio or video it just seemed like a cool place to be. It’s really weird describing a blogging community in this way but it was. My lil geek sis @HappilyCandied mentioned she had to hold back the tears when she first hold the news because she felt like she was losing a lot of herself and to be honest I know how she feels, I really do. To me for a long while Vox was the place you hung, met intelligent people, conversed on a high-brow level and to me Facebook is the opposite: it’s a place to show your face only when you want promote something and to me that is the only thing Facebook is good for, nothing more.

But many of us drank the FB/Twitter Kool-Aid. Slowly but surely more and more people began migrating over there and in the end when going back to Vox it became a wasteland of Spam where you had to lock down your site tight. But every time I ventured back over there it was like a place still you didn’t mind visiting…like an old friend. I began a short-lived tech podcast over there. I met people like Ms. Jo Ladie,  VoxEfx,  Melissa,  EJ,  Amneris, A. Diamond,  Julia,  Mixed-Passionate-Honey,  M. Michelle, Anewlis, RPM, Fave and his wife Eve, Todd Kelley, Doug Fresh, Koa, Jenn Mc, Mami Rosi, and of course my geeks for life: Suni, Steve, Jennifer, and Lauren. (As you can see many hadn’t posted over there in some time but still…). Many of us may not have met face to face but we still keep in touch to this day, that was the cool connection of Vox. You felt like a true neighborhood.  In a way we all had to grow and move on but in way I think some of us wished we would have stayed with Vox.

Throughout the month I will post links of some of my favorite Vox posts I created and going through my neighborhood throughout the month to see if I come across some of my Vox buds so I can pass on my site links.

Sorry we took you for granted Vox. To me you will ALWAYS be the real blogging community.

Maybe I’ve been drinking the Apple Kool-Aid for far to long. Usually when I see a new update for iTunes I wait for a week or two before updating and to be honest I really do not need to update because I still have the 5th gen iPod and the iPod mini. I don’t have an iPod Touch or an iPhone and I know I will get a new iPod and invest in a iPod Touch and iPhone but I decided to dive in download it because I read some of the small new features with iTunes like iTunes Ping, Airplay, even the cool little Capacity toolbar at the bottom of iTunes that shows how much space you have left on your device. (I love eye-candy as well as quality hardware and software). So I updated it and restarted my computer and when I opened iTunes 10…well…it’s ugly…BUTT UGLY

Maybe it’s just on the Windows side but I don’t think so because I know this is the same on the Apple side. Has anyone written Apple (and now that I’m writing this I will write Apple) told them how bland and just BUTT UGLY the UI (User Interface) is on iTunes. It hurts my eyes to look at this mess. Calling it a hot mess would be a compliment. I know some may say, “looks don’t matter” but come on, Apple is known for style and I know someone over at that lab could come up with a way of changing skins on this repugnant application. Windows Media Player gives you the option of changing skins, Winamp, Media Monkey. It’s not the most important thing but as large as this music app is you would think iTunes would give you the option but it never has.

Maybe we have given Apple a pass because again of the great hardware they make but if you are sitting at your computer with iTunes open do you really want to look at this sorid UI? This is far beyond bland. This is something Google would have for an UI but not Apple.

We can’t swap out the batteries on our mobile devices but you could at least you give us the option of changing how iTunes look.

It’s only been 3 days but it feels like a lifetime not twittering and I mean this a good way. For me it’s like ideas are flowing again and it’s a beautiful thing when it comes go blogging. For a long time it took me a while to drink the “Twitter/Facebook” kool-aid and when I finally did I fell hard, really hard. So hard that I spent so much time on twitter where it was addictive. So I made up my mind Sunday that I will stay off twitter for 30 days. The only time I will tweet is when sharing my link for my podcasts and you know what…it feels GOOOOD!!!
Twitter is cool, really cool but time and time again I fall into treating twitter as if it’s an IM app and it’s not, for from that. I found myself posting thoughts on twitter and checking every nano-second if someone has replied to my tweet and that’s just, well sad. Yes, I will admit, I’m sad but at least I’m admitting it and I come to realize how addicted I have been to Twitter. 3 months ago it was even worse with me because I was so hooked on Facebook and Twitter checking on the hour every hour. But I found myself slipping away from Facebook over the months. Again I post links over there but not really, check it. Both Twitter and Facebook is a cool tool to use but for some people like, myself, you can over do it. I have let so many things slipped and now little by little I’m making myself get back to things that I love to do and need to do like, reading blogs.

Two blogs I’ve gotten into is by @ExtremelyAvg and @nycgirlygirl72 (I really need to find out my sister in photography real name). What’s cool about Brian is not only his photography and his journey into the world of learning woodwork but how he loves to write and that goes for girlygirl with her photography and her love of words. I’m learning not only to enjoy their blogs but how they use words, how they say whats on their mind whether it’s about their projects or what’s going on in the world today. So it got me to thinking how passionate I was when I first began blogging. So I thank you two for your wonderful, beautiful sites.

The past three days I have realized that when away from twitter my imagination is coming back and my mind is beginning to roam about things I love, things I need to read. Heck my love for music for some reason sounds much richer. I’m like a person who has quit smoking and for the first time I’m actually tasting food for the first time. (I’ve never smoked but I’ve heard ex-smokers say that when eating fruits and vegetables, “I never knew how good this really tasted until now.”

Twitter is here to stay no doubt but it feels good to be able to begin to let my thoughts, my words, my feelings flow again and not thinking in 140 characters. I’m learning the world of emails, IMs again and it’s wonderful. I’ve been down this road before in regards to Twitter but now I’m learning not to think of being off twitter for 30 days but do like the termites do by taking “iddy-biddy” bites, taking it one day at a time. Finding other things to feel my day.

We but the wii a couple of months ago and our grandkids play it all the time when they come over but I have never played it but today was different. Many gamers “poo-poo” wii but I love because it’s game that is just one word, “fun”. No violence, no profanity, just all out fun. I’ve never been a gamer unless it was Crash Bandicoot or Donkey Kong games. I think the only game I really played where it may have been violent was the Bruce Lee game(and I do miss that game so) but I’ve enjoyed games with bright colors, funny looking characters. Today I played Wii Golf, Wii Table Tennis, Wii Basketball by myself and I had a ball and afterwards I told my queen, “that was really fun!” And it truly was.

I’ve been talking to my geek brother who will be sending me some extra Star Wars novels and I can’t wait to get them and begin reading them. and to be honest I have so many books on our bookshelves which I’ve never cracked up and that’s is just shameful but I think tonight I will begin reading a book that a friend that is no longer with me introduces me to, “The Prophet” by Kahil Gibran.

The first time she gave me that book to read I was so blown away. It’s a small book, you could read it in one sitting but oh the deepness of the book which goes to show that sometimes a book doesn’t have to be 500 pages to have it touch your soul. So that’s my mission, to begin reading a book again and no matter how sleepy I become, (isn’t it something that when you do something that truly brings healing and peace to your man spirit you get sleepy?) From the beginning of when prophet begins to speak on “Love” it hooked me. I now I’m going to get reacquainted with the love of words. If I don’t understand it, I will look it up, If I can’t pronounce I will learn how to speak it fluently.

Another thing while having my mind wander I thought of the comic book heroes I loved as a kid. Sure there was Spiderman, the Uncanny X-Men, Iron Man (has been and will be my all-time favorite) but I remember loving Dr. Strange, Adam Warlock,  Defenders, Invaders,  Avengers, Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos,

Son of Satan,  Falcon, and the one and only, Sub-Mariner. I remember growing up and me and my buddy Walter Davis would catch the bus to Granite City, IL to buy the latest comics and get back home and go on his porch and spend hours reading comics and Sub-Mariner was my favorite because of where he came from, how much of an outcast he was but in the end still became one of the most powerful super heroes around.

I’m loving being away from twitter because now slowly but surely I’m becoming a “creator” again and not just a “consumer”. It feels good. If I feel this way and it’s only been day 3 just think where I will be in 30 days

This podcast was supposed to have been recorded and posted last week but “life” got in the way and this week was kinda rough and stressful. So stressful that I had a headache for two days and my left eye was throbbing and that’s not a good sign. So instead of recording it in the “cubby hole” I went down to the clubhouse and recorded it there. I have to say, it was cool to be in a different setting and to see sunshine.

This music line up I’m pretty happy with, at the last minute I switched out one song and replaced with a track by Joni Mitchell. The other track just kept nagging me and I felt it didn’t really fit and I’m glad I made the switch because now I feel the podcast flows better. A have a couple great tunes by Nicolay, a track from one of my brothers in podcasting, Todd Kelley, a track by Derek K. Miller and a track from one of my favorite movies.

This music podcast is over one hour so that means this is a great podcast for a lazy Saturday evening.

I posted a short video on YouTube talking a little of what equipment I use to make my podcast (you’ll be surprised how simple it is and you don’t need the “latest and greatest equipment” to make a nice podcast). I may make that a habit to record there until they kick me out of there because sometimes it’s cool to see the outside.

Hope you dig the tunes, I hope I didn’t talk too much.

As I always say, kick back, relax and enjoy the music.

~DarrenKeith3

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Playlist for MyLoveForMusic Podcast Episode 012

{id drops by Macedonia, Nikki, Anji Bee}
o1. Big Rock Candy Mountain – Harry McClintock {from the “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” album}
o2. Jacob Do Bandolim – Montruex {from the “A Windham Hill Retrospective” and “Sign Language” album}
o3. Daykeeper (feat. Muhsinah) – The Foreign Exchange {from the “Leave It All Behind” album}
o4. More Red Than Red – Derek K. Miller {from the “Penmachine Podcast” album}
o5. Honeymoon Nights - Mark Isham {from the “Mark Isham” album}
o6. Teardrop – Massive Attack {from the “Mezzaine” album}
o7. Saturday Night – Nicolay {from the “City Lights Vol. 2: Shibuya” album}
o8. I Live In a New Place – Todd Phillips {from the “Timeframe” album}
o9. My Secret Place - Joni Mitchell {from the “Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm“}
1o. Thrice Told Is True - The Darol Anger/Mike Marshall Band {from the “Jam” album}
11. Inside – Moby {from the “Play” album}

Bonus Tracks
12. Hey - Nicolay {from the “City Lights Volume 1.5” album}
13. Moment Of Truths (The Morning After) - Big La vs. Todd {from the “Water…Under The Bridge” album}
14. On the Dunes - Donald Fagen {from the “Kamakiriad” album}

Thanx to Todd Kelley and Nicolay time after time for great instrumental music throughout the years. You cats could charge me every time I use your tracks but you don’t and that I’m so thankful.

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