http://www.davidrossmacdonald.com/wordpress • david ross macdonald • extras and journal Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:20:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As a foreigner to San Francisco and the Bay Areas' many highways and byways I fell victim to an incident while driving east bound on the interstate 80. I borrowed a car and while blasting out towards the High Sierras I got spooked. On the radio were continued reports on the ... http://www.davidrossmacdonald.com/wordpress/?p=899 'Deepwater Horizon' Considering the oxymoronic name for the ruptured oil well head that's converting the Gulf of Mexico and the southern US coastline into a filthy, tarry sump pit I wondered how the good folks at BP penned the perished platforms moniker. Of course, at that depth in the ocean there ... http://www.davidrossmacdonald.com/wordpress/?p=830 Now here's a question for you. Should we pay money for art? I've been thinking this one over a bit lately given the recent proliferation of freeconomics on the web and I am searching for answers. Maybe you can help? So for the sake of argument let's start at an art gallery opening that ... http://www.davidrossmacdonald.com/wordpress/?p=767 It's kind of easy to read too much into things these days. Recently I was walking down a street in Melbourne admiring a 2010 Toyota Prius parked beneath a tall gum tree. Gleaming in all it's hybrid and aerodynamic beauty I remarked to myself "those silvery lines and duco finish look exactly ... http://www.davidrossmacdonald.com/wordpress/?p=736 Live Recording - Pepper Tree Sunday 8 November 2009 David Ross Macdonald with Mel Robinson on cello Recorded live in the Church of the Trinity, Adelaide, South Australia with Mel Robinson playing haunting and improvised cello. Share and enjoy! Just click on the gift box above to open/download the MP3 http://www.davidrossmacdonald.com/wordpress/?p=724 The in-flight magazine, that glossy wet kiss to conspicuous consumption coos from its snug back-seat pocket right in front of me. It's directly under my nose. Nestled between the laminated and unread safety procedures card and the equally unused sick bag (where chewing gum goes to die). This tome of ... http://www.davidrossmacdonald.com/wordpress/?p=673 Alongside a quiet country railway track my ten year old mother Jill walked with her father Frank. The war had just finished and times in the small country town of Millicent five hundred miles west of Melbourne must have been humbly comfortable at best for the family of a dentist. ... http://www.davidrossmacdonald.com/wordpress/?p=654 I find myself on a far and remote western fringe of Winnipeg standing outside the Shoppers Drugmart beside Walmart. Pretty spot. While standing before this contusion of capitalism bandaged with pre-fab concrete compresses with a hemorrhaging tourniquet for a car-park I idly note that the brisk trade of crap-from-China ensures that ... http://www.davidrossmacdonald.com/wordpress/?p=611 Umalali, Alejandro Escovedo, Luluc and Jah Youssouf are impossible to spell on your mobile phone using predictive text and so probably make them TWITTER hostile and thus consequently perfect for my tastes, IMHO. The substance of these seemingly anagrammatically named artists that I gloriously witnessed (in person, actually there, youtubeless, surrounded ... http://www.davidrossmacdonald.com/wordpress/?p=571 Thank you to all of you folks who came to the Wesley Anne show last week thank you so much for making for a wonderful nights music and sorry for those who couldn't get in as it was sold out! I forgot to do the raffle draw on the night so ... http://www.davidrossmacdonald.com/wordpress/?p=449   So I am playing to the barflies at this open mic in Melbourne, it is late and I am gazing beyond the casually disinterested drinkers to the TV set above the cigarette machine. The tube never sleeps in bars, they hard wire the power into the wall, there are no ... http://www.davidrossmacdonald.com/wordpress/?p=406 post leonard cohen concert ... took it back to my hotel room and recorded an old tune of mine 'til i'm gone' ... Just click on the gift box above to open/download the MP3 ... feel free to share these gift MP3's that i am recording in various hotel rooms and posting ... http://www.davidrossmacdonald.com/wordpress/?p=168 it's not everyday that you bump into Leonard Cohen eating a cheeseburger on a side-walk in Melbourne. today is that day and tonight is his show and a guest ticket is in this pocket... http://www.davidrossmacdonald.com/wordpress/?p=160 took the greyhound from nashville to memphis. i was by far the skinniest and whitest plank on this old dog of a carriage which, by the sheen of the frayed leather-look bench seating had done some serious southern state miles. jammed in there amongst the restless, low coined and no ... http://www.davidrossmacdonald.com/wordpress/?p=134 Welcome! Here is your free Christmas MP3 download gift. Enjoy and Thank You! While working on new music for my 2009 release I wanted to record something especially for those folks who have purchased my music and supported my art. But what to record? As a young kid some of my earliest ... http://www.davidrossmacdonald.com/wordpress/?p=116 i don't get it. i'm on tour and in the airport washroom and the suit next to me takes a leak and then walks straight back out into the world without washing his hands! i don't care how immaculately hygienic he believes his tackle to be, i for one don't want ... http://www.davidrossmacdonald.com/wordpress/?p=7