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Page o’ coordination: Out Of This World

  • October 22, 2014
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For all of these POCs I’ve posted, I’ve actually been writing and practicing quite a few more. Here’s one elaborating on one of the very first entries in this series, but with a more advanced […]

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Daily best music in the world: tracks that used to get me in trouble

  • August 12, 2014
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Here are a couple of things I was listening to when I was at USC, which used to get me in trouble with some of the other students, for playing too… aggressively, let’s say. One […]

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