Janet evanovich three6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() To get ready for the admittance exams he studied harmony and ear training with Laura Bade. Once again, Sandro Benedetto showed him some Berklee College of Music (Boston, Massachusetts) advertisements and that was when Julian realized he wanted to study at Berklee. He was becoming more and more interested in classical composition as well as music technology. ![]() A former guitar teacher -Alejandro Montserrat- prepared him for the admittance exams, teaching him guitar, ear training, and harmony.Īfter having completed the first 15 months at ITMC, Julian decided that jazz performance -ITMC's stronger side- was not his thing. This would annoy the hell out of the neighbors!Īfter following Sandro Benedetto's advice -one of Julian's music teachers during high school-, Julian attended ITMC - Instituto Tecnologico de Musica Contemporanea (Contemporary Music Institute of Technology) in their guitar performance program. By the age of 13 he could be found playing drums and guitar -day and night- in a little room where he managed to cram a small drum set and assorted guitars, bases, and amplifiers. Without taking his piano lessons very seriously, Julian decided to broaden his horizons and delve into other musical instruments. ![]() His first contact with music came at the age of nine when his parents gave him a tiny Casio keyboard which barely had four full octaves. Julian is a composer and a sound engineer. ![]()
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Elephants remember poirot6/30/2023 ![]() As always, Christie set the background work brilliantly by throwing pieces here and there in the story.Īriadne Oliver makes me think of Agatha Christie by her unsatisfied way of reaching out to seek the truth and as an author of crime fiction. Not sure if I have been reading so many crime stories or thrillers, I was able to guess the climax. Ariadne Oliver with Hercule Poirot tries to dig into this cold case and wants to know if those were actual suicides or the killer set those up. The crime is a double suicide by a married couple some 10-12 years ago. This book had been published in 1972 and is one of the late ones penned by Agatha Christie. ![]() After reading Agatha Christie's top three best-sellers, I decided to dive into yet another book of hers featuring Hercule Poirot "Elephants Can Remember". ![]() Gates of Thread and Stone by Lori M. Lee6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She will leave the only home she’s ever known and risk getting caught up in a revolution centuries in the making. When keeping silent and safe means losing him forever, Kai vows to do whatever it takes to find him. Kai’s only friend is Avan, the shopkeeper’s son with the scandalous reputation that both frightens and intrigues her. All that matters is that she and Reev stay together, and maybe one day move out of the freight container they call home, away from the metal walls of the Labyrinth. ![]() Kai doesn’t know where her ability comes from-or where she came from. When Kai was eight, she was found by Reev on the riverbank, and her “brother” has taken care of her ever since. In a city of walls and secrets, where only one man is supposed to possess magic, seventeen-year-old Kai struggles to keep hidden her own secret-she can manipulate the threads of time. In the Labyrinth, we had a saying: keep silent, keep still, keep safe. ![]() Bitter Springs by Laura Stone6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Robinson) discovered tape on the door of a service entrance and called the police for assistance. It was that fourth attempt on June 17 when Watergate security guard Frank Wills (Eddie K. ![]() As the series gleefully depicts, the Watergate break-in was actually four different break-ins: Two false starts, one successful attempt, and then one more time to fix bugs that were misplaced. In the summer of 1972, Hunt, Liddy, and their collaborators are given their biggest assignment yet when they are asked to break into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel and plant listening devices. ![]() The series begins with Howard Hunt, a former CIA company man and part-time novelist, being called back into duty by Nixon lackey Egil "Bud" Krough (Rich Sommer) for a special assignment: To discredit Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg by breaking into his psychiatrist's office and finding incriminating (or at least embarrassing) information, where he is partnered with the ever-so-slightly fascist former federal agent G. ![]() |