While I’ve been neglecting this blog, I’ve been posting a fair bit to my YouTube channel lately. Here’s a recent addition, what is nominally a how-to video of me cooking Peking duck this past weekend. It was gooooood!
How to Make Peking Duck
February 9th, 2010UK National Health
December 19th, 2009
UkeTube: Me: “Fly Me to the Moon”
December 5th, 2009I’ve been playing ukulele for about three years. Before then, I hadn’t been at all “musical” since I took guitar lessons when I was 12 and 13. Since then, it’s played a large role in my life. I haven’t really recored myself playing much, but I intend to so do so. There’s a vibrant population of ukulele players on what I call UkeTube posting home-made videos of themselves playing like this. Here’s one of my first contributions, at last.
And…We’re Back! (Sort of)
November 29th, 2009Regular reader of the blog (hi Pablo!) will have noticed that it’s been screwed up for a month or more. Long boring story (but hey, isn’t that what “blog” is an abbreviation for?): my host, Dreamhost (umm…) required me to upgrade WordPress, which my friend Steve installed for me a couple of years ago, because I was running an old version that was vulnerable to hackers and hence a security risk. I tried to upgrade it myself myself, and I screwed things up.
Dreamhost and Steve helped right the ship again, and I’ve been bailing it out since. Got the photos working, and all the posts are restored, though the archive navigation in the right margin by month is screwed up still. And the templates are the defaults.
I’ll try to restore it to some semblance of order over the holidays. Maybe I’ll treat myself to hiring a designer for a fresh look and functionality. Stay tuned…
Test
October 27th, 2009Testing
NY Ukulele Salon: Halloween Jazz @ The Living Room
October 19th, 2009
Scary: NY Ukulele Salon: Halloween @ The Living Room
October 31, 2009
7-10pm
The Living Room
154 Ludlow St. (@ Stanton St.)
Manhattan, Lower East Side
Google Map
Subways:
F/V @ 2nd Ave
F/J/M/Z @ Essex St/Delancy
No cover. Tip bucket & 1 drink per set.
The NY Ukulele Salon proudly presents an evening of jazz ukulele and spooky fun on Halloween night (a Saturday no less!) at The Living Room, in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. A great way to start a fun night downtown.
ACTS:
7:00: Khabu
Khabu Doug Young (aka Khabu Young Dog) hails from Lubbock, TX, but he currently resides with his wife and daughter in the East Village. An extremely talented and distinguished musician, he does things with the ukulele that will amaze you. Mostly of the jazz variety. Details at Khabu.net or Myspace.com/khabuyoungdog
8:00: Dr. Uke and Daughters: The Rosokoff Family
This trio sings in close family harmony with songs from several eras. Check out DoctorUke.com for songs and other things ukulele.
9:00: The Moonlighters
Fronted by Bliss Blood, The Moonlighters play a hip confection of jazz and pop, combining 21st century attitude with 1920’s songwriting and virtuosity through vocal harmonies and rocking swing rhythms on ukulele, bass, and steel guitar. Details at myspace.com/moonlightersny or BlissBlood.com
Emcee: Rick Bruner
Rick is the organizer of the NY Ukulele Salon, a sporadic ukulele party and performance series. He will be performing a few songs duing the interludes between acts, in a humble jazzy style.
Please feel free to invite lots of friends, blog, tweet, etc. It’s going to be a great show, and we need to fill up the room, which is large, so that we get invited back.
RSVP on Facebook or on Eventful or on Going.
I Haven’t Given Up on This Blog
October 12th, 2009I have 1,001 things on my To Do list at all times. That’s apparently because I’m super organized, I guess. Or ambitious.
Anyway, fixing up Bruner Blog and getting back into a better rhythm about posting here is on the list, for sure. Man, all the broken links and woefully outdated features in the left margin depresses me. But…well, it just hasn’t been high enough on the priority list to have gotten done yet. Need to finish that online music theory course, too, for example. And learn to play the piano I bought on an impulse this summer (after being laid off, go figure). Plus all the photography stuff, etc., etc.
Spent the past couple of days massively reorganizing and chucking out all sorts of crap in my storage room, which was rewarding. Little by little, we win these kinds of personal battles.
And then, of course, once I finally finish cleaning up the site, there will be getting back in the habit of posting here regularly again.
No Soliciting
October 4th, 2009
Billie Jean
July 28th, 2009Trying to learn Billie Jean on the ukulele. May be one of those songs that just doesn’t work well on the uke. Or maybe it’s just me. Anyway, was watching the original video earlier tonight, then for unrelated reasons looked up a Steve Martin clip and chanced up his parody. Thought the two were worth posting.
