Went to see The Nightwatchman today, Tom Morello’s (Rage Against The Machine’s guitarist) acoustic side project. Again, no time to write much as I was supposed to be working on a final paper instead of going to this concert, so I have a bit of catching up to do…

I went in expecting all acoustic folk music, but it turned out the second half was mostly rock music. He had a ton of guests there, including Brian Baker, the guitarist for Bad Religion. Tom even used his “Arm the Homeless” guitar and played a number of Rage-style solos, which was awesome. I got him to autograph my ticket:

I’ve arranged my songs into a sort of homebrew EP, called Pi E Phi. There aren’t any new songs or anything, it’s just that the existing songs are arranged differently, so if you have them already you aren’t missing anything (except maybe updated ID3 tags). More details on the music page.

I’ve posted mp3 versions of music I’ve composed. After switching to Mac and fighting with iTunes’s lack of native compatibility for flac and ogg (I know there are addon components but there are still a few problems with them, not to mention the flacs/oggs still won’t work on an ipod/iphone), I’ve come to the realization that the vast majority of people do not know what oggs are. So I bit the bullet and encoded mp3 versions.