By Dibson on 2010 March 8
I played tons of video games as a kid; one of my favorite themes was from the Nintendo game “Metroid”. Here’s the theme if you don’t know it. It gets good at 30 seconds if you want to skip.
8-bit Nintendo video game music charms me still. The Nintendo could have five channels [...]
Posted in Writings | Tagged bach, fugue, metroid, music, nintendo
By Dibson on 2010 March 5
Weeks ago: friend Jon and I walk up 2nd Avenue, and I tell him of a fantasy I have of moving to the woods. Walden comes up, and I say I had difficulty reading it. He recommends Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, saying it holds more relevance to our generation since it’s [...]
Posted in Writings | Tagged anniedillard, definitions, pilgrimattinkercreek
By Dibson on 2010 February 23
On Saturday: Deenah, Dan, Daoud & I wake up in Indio, California. We drive from our Motel 6 to Joshua Tree National Park. I’ve never seen a Joshua Tree before. After driving through miles of flat space, coming upon a Joshua Tree feels like an encounter with a god.
Before I acknowledge the [...]
Posted in Images, Writings | Tagged cactus, danfishback, daoudtylerameen, deenahmoffie, joshuatree, rock
By Dibson on 2010 February 18
Sunset, 2010 February 7
In Los Angeles, I climb the hill on Occidental College campus. At the top I meet a stranger who tells me to take a photo of these birds because they’re a rare site. For his whole life he’s lived near the hill we stand on, so I believe him. [...]
Posted in Images, Writings | Tagged california, losangeles, sun, time, travel
By Dibson on 2010 January 29
Today I have a 10:15 am doctor’s appointment in Brooklyn Heights. I wake up a little later than I’d intended, so I have a quick breakfast and hop on the bus. It snowed this morning; water runs vertically on the bus windows.
On New Jersey highways, while driving 65+ MPH, the water drops run [...]
Posted in Images, Writings | Tagged altar, dumbo, tree, walk, water
By Dibson on 2010 January 23
Casey lent me Ursula K LeGuin’s Tehanu, one of the books from The Earthsea Trilogy-turned-cycle. I’ve always been attracted to science fiction, but rarely fantasy (although they both fall under the clumsy term “speculative fiction”). However, the Earthsea Trilogy engaged me the whole way through.
Tehanu was written many years after the original trilogy, [...]
Posted in Writings | Tagged tehanu, ursulakleguin, words
By Dibson on 2010 January 17
I’m subscribed to the Wordsmith Word-a-day mailing list. I like a bunch of them, but rarely use them. I’m keeping ones I like here as a reference for myself.
This past weeks words were all religious. I liked one particular:
eremite (AIR-uh-myt) noun
A recluse, especially for religious reasons.
[From Latin eremita, from [...]
Posted in Writings | Tagged language, words
By Dibson on 2009 December 24
I went to Guitar Center after a rehearsal last night. My guitar has an icon of JR “Bob” Dobbs stickered to it.
The guy who checked my guitar said to me, “So are you in the church of ‘Bob’?”
It was the first time anyone commented on it, so I was caught off guard. “I’m [...]
Posted in Writings | Tagged "bob", flyingspaghettimonster, guitarcenter, religion
By Dibson on 2009 December 17
For months, Cheese On Bread has been hearing that Japanese label Moorworks would be releasing our last record, The Search for Colonel Mustard. Matt just sent an email saying that it’s going to be released December 26! And it’s true, it’s on their site too! Check out this image:
I really like seeing [...]
Posted in Writings | Tagged cheeseonbread, time
By Dibson on 2009 September 30
A few weeks ago, Elen told me that one of the reasons why humans are so easily distracted is because we’ve been trained over generations to feel rewarded when we notice changes around us. This sense of reward makes us want to notice small changes in our environment – very useful when there’s a [...]
Posted in Writings | Tagged distraction, evolution, theendoftheworld, thinking