Scooter Chronicles

This afternoon I finished “The Great American Novel” by Philip Roth. Yes, you read that correctly. The book is calling itself the best. And that’s not the only thing it calls itself.

So what is the “great American novel” about? It’s about conspiracies. It’s about Communism. It’s about capitalism. It’s about watching America and it’s citizens getting the wool pulled over their eyes, and even when they see it happening, it looks like it’s for the best. But mostly the “great American novel” is about baseball. That’s correct again. It’s about our National...

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This was another one of my recent “Christmas” purchases. The self-titled debut of the project called Gordian Knot.

1. Galois
2. Code/Anitcode
3. Reflections
4. Megrez
5. Singularity
6. Redemption’s Way
7. Komm Süsser Tod, Komm Sel’ge
8. Rivers Dancing
9. Srikara Tal
10. Grace (hidden track)

The mastermind and leader of this project is bassist and stick player Sean Malone. He has been a studio musician most of his life, though he spent some time with the prog metal band Cynic in the mid 90’s. Given his background, and the other stick players on the album (Trey...

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