I love to take a phrase from an idea and run it through gutenberg.org. Here, the phrase “Creative Commons to the Rescue” came up, although, by coincidentally, the phrase ended up having a double meaning because the RFP for the mixter went up the same day! I was a cub scout, and a never-got-anywhere boy scout, but the citation is less an homage to scouting than a recognition that if I were 12 in 1913 and hiking in a Florida swamp, I’d love to go rescue a lost balloonist!

Thanks for your kind words on this mix. I am “saving” your hornet mix until I can get home to proper headphones to hear it!

if drugs are the cure for this give me the disease!! ;)

I remember the first (and nearly only) time I drank too much alcohol. I got progressively more wordy and pseudo-intellectual. If releasing my inhibitions meant becoming even more boring, then I decided to just teetotal :).

I like to mix exuberantly sometimes. Why put 25,000 samples at freesound, other than to use 20,000 or so? It’s fun to have a zany side. Lately, I feel drawn to childrens/novelty/soundscape instrumentals. It’s fun to go down that road, for at least a while. This one does PTSD a bit, but it will be a good youtube setting—though I may have to do the video myself :).

I loved school field trips. We never did too many, but the idea of them was just grand. This one is a bit too-too, but I wanted to do something that wasn’t 40 bpm and I wanted to have zany fun. So I did.