by beachraven | Sep 25, 2020
Fisherman’s Wharf, Monterey, California She sat there on those steps most afternoons, reading a book checked out from the library down the street. I walked past her several times a week for months, and I couldn’t quite figure her out, because she...
by beachraven | Sep 18, 2020
Monterey Bay, Monterey, California I’ve mixed the audio for thousands of TV commercials. One of my favorite campaigns, from the fall of 1992, was produced by ad-agency Weiden+Kennedy and directed by Joe Pytka. Unlike most of the sessions I mixed in that...
by beachraven | Sep 12, 2020
El Porto, Manhattan Beach, Califonia In the early morning sun, drinking deep the cool, fresh air, I release the brakes on my bike, and with the purring clicks of the freewheel, start my descent down the canyon. In seconds I’m building speed. I lower my hands to...
by beachraven | Sep 5, 2020
Jettenbach, Germany One fall afternoon, I went out to the garage to put new license plates on my car. My dad was at his workbench with his flea market radio playing easy listening orchestral versions of old pop songs. I grabbed a screwdriver from his red tool...
