August 28ths
8/28/1963 Field recording: March on Washington. (Audio Snapshot) 8/28/1999 My approach to music: Design a system that allows you to express ideas, rather than using a configured system and thinking of ideas based on prepackaged concepts. (Exploration rather than a guided tour). [8/28/2024: 20 years later–the Songday system. I love working this way]. 8/28/2002 Story idea: Set in Anytown, USA, where every character is a cliche (the old woman, the barber, the criminal, the crooked politician, the idiot savant), but we find out at the end of the film that the people are not ordinary at all. Possible title: “Everyone’s Got One”. 8/28/2004 Baptismal: 8/28/2008 Obama is nominated at Dem convention and gives historic speech in Denver. His “Big Night” 4 years in the making, and 45 years after King’s “I have a dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Mem...
