http://ill-legible.com Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:08:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Check out my interpretation and analysis (in PDF) of Spoon's "Out Go The Lights" from their latest (amazing) album, Transference. This is arranged for one acoustic guitar in standard tuning. Download the file here. Out Go The Lights - Transference - Spoon from Sean on Vimeo. Arranged for one acoustic guitar in standard ... http://ill-legible.com/2010/03/08/ill-legible-exploration-%e2%80%9cout-go-the-lights%e2%80%9d-by-spoon/ As promised, here's the show to check out! Let's keep expectations in check here, as this is recorded using the Voice Memo app on my iPhone 3G[S], but DAMN not bad. I am just glad to have a memento of The Dodos side by side playing with what must have ... http://ill-legible.com/2010/02/27/the-dodos-live-at-the-palace-of-fine-arts-sf-ca-022510/ This is for sale on iTunes, but you can also view the show for free on Baeblemusic here: Watch the full concert at baeblemusic.com I just saw the The Dodos play at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco as part of the inauguration of the always epic 2010 Noise Pop ... http://ill-legible.com/2010/02/27/the-dodos-live-the-spiegeltent/ If you don't have "Emotionalism" or "I and Love and You" yet, you are missing two of the best albums of the last few years. Great harmonies with a punk attitude ascribed to folk. This is a great, easy tune to learn and you can add as much detail to ... http://ill-legible.com/2009/12/09/ill-legible-exploration-laundry-room-by-the-avett-brothers/ One of my best art teachers over the years told me once that she does one self portrait a year, and it's a good way of staying in touch with where you've been/you are/you're going. Wanting to explore Live Paint and the Blob Brush in Illustrator today yielded my first ... http://ill-legible.com/2009/10/27/self-portrait/ Had a lil fun at the end of my day today working through some tutorials on the tutsplus.com network, and decided to clean up my virtual desktop as countless hours of projects with no filing had caught up with me... nice to have a change. This site rocks most of ... http://ill-legible.com/2009/10/08/sprucing-up-the-ol-desktop-and-tuts-network/ I have been playing guitar with a new set of plastic & metal fingerpicks for the past month or so. The metal ones in particular have really accelerated my finger-picking learning curve since before I got them I was using the tips of my fingers, which had a tendency to ... http://ill-legible.com/2009/10/04/ill-legible-exploration-radioheads-airbag-for-acoustic-guitar/ Placing the Ring, originally uploaded by ill-legible. Decided to bring my old Canon Rebel DSLR to Irvine for some good peeps, eats, drinks, and shots (camera shots) for one of my best friends' wedding... Had some fun with lens filters in post processing afterwards and tried to really punch out the ... http://ill-legible.com/2009/09/29/congrats_to_adamtash/ Show some love for rehabilitating incarnerated youth through the power of meditation. How? By hearing some great music at the One Breath Away benefit concert for The Mind Body Awareness Project at one of SF's best venues. Rocking Cafe du Nord will be the venerable Alma Desnuda and Lady Danville, ... http://ill-legible.com/2009/09/17/one-breath-away-benefit-show-cafe-du-nord-093009/ I love every second of this, see him live NOW! http://ill-legible.com/2009/08/28/how-to-be-a-multi-instrumentalist-by-andrew-bird/