The Abbotts get CNN-ed!

The day started like any other… until we got a call from CNN. The story of our interview, set to music. Hit the full-screen button… it’s HD.

The unedited CNN story (nothing special, really) can be found here.

Bluegrass Weave – The Kyle Sandwich Experience

Some friends of ours came over for some merriment and . . . whatever goes along good with that. (Food!*) Anywho, for the merriment, Kyle (yes, there’s more than one) and I sandwiched Luke, creating the Kyle Sandwich Experience, and attempted a Bluegrass Weave.

*What doesn’t go good with food?**

**Watching a birth?

The Morning GTD-ish Routine

I think it’s time to revive my old morning routine—and when I say old, I mean, from earlier this year. The routine I came up with is based around a methodology called Getting Things Done (or GTD), which I’ve blogged about before.) Here’s a video of my routine:

And here’s the story behind the video, and why I was happy to watch it again after… Continue reading ‘The Morning GTD-ish Routine’

Blues Stay Away From Me

Here I am with some girl friends at the Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival outside of Hollister. This is called a tweener set. It’s the set between the main acts where anyone can get up and play. The song is “Blues Stay Away from me” which is pretty obvious when you hear it. The 5 of us got together moments before to do a run through. Otherwise the 5 of us had not played together at the same time. It was a lot of fun!

Blues Stay Away From Me from Kyle Abbott on Vimeo.

Hon Kyoku

Seeing Papa’s post below, you might be wondering, “Gee, what’s a shakuhachi? What’s Hon Kyoku for that matter?!” Well, to answer both questions in the all-language language that is music, Here’s Pa tooting away on a Hon Kyoku piece called Ashi no Shirabe on the shakuhachi. . . in Widescreen!