Binaural sound (recorded with in-ear mics + minidisc) from a top-secret location in San Francisco, CA, split into three scenes. Listen with headphones for best effect!

A Virtual Haircut in San Francisco (3 Scenes)

One man band punk cover of Frank Sinatra's My Way

My Way - The Turboprops (Frank Sinatra punk cover)

I had intended to do this live on stage at Sky Blue Sky but Covid had different plans for me.

Please enjoy this selection of songs and stories related to the first 25 years of my life.

Here's a playlist so you can hear these songs w/o my yakkin: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/57WSz6Ap0XYqkuWkIMnwI7?si=d9a1eb0d4f974950

Thanks to Lila for the cardboard cutout artwork!

Also, I'm aware of the static in the audio and I apologize, but pretend it's the radio and you'll be fine.

MJ Crowd Work - Sky Blue Sky Festival Edition

Bringing it back to a recording we did in 2004.

Documentation

Rodney Urquhart grew up in a North Philly neighborhood ridden with gang violence and effects of the crack epidemic. After seeing people around him get involved with gangs and crime, he realized that staying in high school would result in getting arrested or shot. 

At 16, Rodney dropped out of high school and moved in with his grand mother. Being a high school dropout and having no college degree, Rodney had his fair share of companies casting doubt on his ability. But his willingness to learn and work well with others was what got him to create an impressive company portfolio including Comcast, Microsoft’s Yammer, and ThoughtWorks. He didn’t just want to survive, he wanted to thrive. 

Rodney currently heads the test infrastructure team at Slack. He is also part of a program called /dev/color, a non-profit organization that aims to maximize the impact of Black software engineers in the tech space.

#28: Rodney Urquhart - How a 16-year-old High School Dropout became a Software Engineer at Slack

Apologies for the low volume, I live in a very loud neighbourhood.

Bach - Prelude in G

Past the scrap metal siding a cart built for shopping is full of bottles and cans
Where the water is treated nobody is needed and it seems to run itself
In the road there’s a man with a crowbar in hand getting pushed all the way down 
Out of Dogtown

The gnashing of gears is quiet around here, it’s done over drinks somewhere
But the scourge they have sewn is bigger than us all
A creeping plague can’t be paid off
Dumpsters on fire
Shoes on a wire
Devil’s a liar

In the road there’s a man with the world in his hand
Stolen land, breaking ground 
Down in Dogtown

The ones you defeated
The love has receded
It can’t be completed now

Documentation

Edmund