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1: Analog or Digital? <\/span> 2: What time did you wake up today? 3: Last thing you read? 4: What\u2019s your first memory? 5: Tea Or Coffee? 6: Last thing you cooked? 7: If you’re reborn who or what would you like to be? 8: What inspires you? 9: Last record you played? 10: Favorite piece of musical equipment? 11: Last movie you saw? 12: Who do you love? 13: Do you have any pets? 14: Are you useful? 15: Biggest fear? 16: What do you value the most? 17: Famous last words? Steven R. Smith is a visual artist & musician who lives in L.A. with his family. He has made many a good record with the group mind known as Thuja as well as in his own name and under the monikers of Hala Strana & Ulaan Khol. Keep up to date with his busy schedule here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1: Analog or Digital? If I have a choice, analog, no doubt. And if we\u2019re talking LP vs. CD, I\u2019ll take an LP everytime. MP3\u2026ungh, forget it. I don\u2019t even have an Ipod. But having said that, I have some digital effect pedals that I love using and I buy and listen to CDs all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6645,"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/6645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIf I have a choice, analog, no doubt. And if we\u2019re talking LP vs. CD, I\u2019ll take an LP everytime. MP3\u2026ungh, forget it. I don\u2019t even have an Ipod. But having said that, I have some digital effect pedals that I love using and I buy and listen to CDs all the time, for sure. And I\u2019ll record on anything that I have access to, so it\u2019s just a matter of what I can get my hands on. Personally, analog is just more fun cause an old reel-to-reel is like driving a Volkswagen\u2014you\u2019re at the helm of a slightly rickety machine, and I like that. I get enough of sitting in front of a computer at my day job.<\/p>\n
\n5:45 am\u2014Ouch, got a toddler in the house so no more late mornings.<\/p>\n
\nLast Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen.<\/p>\n
\nEarthquake\u2026specifically, running down the hallway into my parents\u2019 bedroom during that earthquake.<\/p>\n
\nTea, green\u2026or wine, red\u2026.or beer…<\/p>\n
\nNot much of a cook, but one of the few things I can usually pull off is salmon in a little garlic and olive oil which I\u2019m sure I must have done in the last week or so. Everything else I leave to the professionals\u2014my wife, the taqueria, the pizza joint\u2026<\/p>\n
\nI don\u2019t know, it\u2019s all one big thing anyway. I\u2019ll go for a tree.<\/p>\n
\nSlogging through the day job, the traffic, and all the hassles of daily life and responsibility just to get a spare few moments to play some music\u2026nothing like a good fight to summon the muse, eh?<\/p>\n
\nThat mysterious Thai LP on Mississippi records.<\/p>\n
\nBlack telecaster built out of scrap parts.<\/p>\n
\nThe Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.<\/p>\n
\nMy family.<\/p>\n
\nYes, a cat named Blue.<\/p>\n
\nI doubt it, but it\u2019d be nice to think so.<\/p>\n
\nThe direction the world is headed in.<\/p>\n
\nBeing here.<\/p>\n
\nShit, what happened?<\/p>\n