Charley Socci http://socci.com/blog Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:18:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bipolar Caravan This is an aural experiment I did one day, playing alto and tenor and recording to my laptop with a CAD E100 microphone and Mackie preamp.

The effects were created in Audacity.

Trip and enjoy.

http://www.socci.com/bipolarcaravan.mp3 ]]> http://socci.com/blog/2010/02/25/bipolar-caravan/ My Piano I’m not a professional pianist. While the saxophone is my main axe, and the one I used to earn a living with, lately I’m more at home on the piano. When I return to the saxophone, the things I’ve worked out on the piano are there for me. My chops get a little rusty – [...]]]> http://socci.com/blog/2010/02/12/my-piano/ Our Nuclear Arsenal Ben from Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream for TrueMajority.org

]]> http://socci.com/blog/2010/02/12/our-nuclear-arsenal/ Haiti

]]> http://socci.com/blog/2010/01/20/haiti-2/ Haiti First of all – you can help right NOW by text message the word HAITI on your mobile phone to 25383 to make a $5 donation via the International Rescue Committee.

Second of all, I feel so helpless. I want to be there digging, or passing out bottles of water, or cleaning porta-potties or SOMETHING… anything [...]]]> http://socci.com/blog/2010/01/14/haiti/ Flying Over Lake Kivu and Bukavu DRC, Landing at Kamembe Airport Rwanda Flight To Cyangugu, Rwanda Kamembe Airport Flying over Bukavu, DRC

]]> http://socci.com/blog/2010/01/04/flying-over-bukavu-drc-landing-at-kamembe-airport-rwanda/ When The Silence Is Too Loud I made a trip to Africa recently. I work in technology an engineer and network manager for a humanitarian organization with a large, well funded program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I was sent to spend a week in Bukavu helping to set-up some IT equipment and do some troubleshooting.

I’ve been on the [...]]]> http://socci.com/blog/2009/12/27/when-the-quiet-is-too-loud/ A Letter From Rudyard Kipling (I’d like to add, this advice to his 12 year old son could just as well apply to a daughter on becoming a woman) “Letter to the son” by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But [...]]]> http://socci.com/blog/2009/11/28/a-letter-from-rudyard-kipling/ How Is Your Geography? http://socci.com/blog/2009/11/12/how-is-your-geography/ Tough Day idealist at heart clinging to some value long lost of meaning

left is the new right our reality shocks me not one taught in school

now i’m on their side i rowed to the other shore to find the same thing

engulfed in a rage of destructive proportions can’t find my way back

emotional fool can’t communicate for shit saying the wrong thing

misunderstood knave sits crying in the corner desolate and [...]]]> http://socci.com/blog/2009/10/27/tough-day/