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Scary At The Time

cjschuette@yahoo.com (Chris Schuette) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:16:51 +0000

I love the month of October, mainly because I love Halloween and the accompanying sugar rush. I was thinking about some of the scariest movies I saw as a kid. Since I was born in 1970, most of these movies are from roughly 1975-1980. This begs the obvious question: where were my parents when I [...]

Piano In The Corner 2

cjschuette@yahoo.com (Chris Schuette) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:49:40 +0000

Here is another bit of “Piano In The Corner” music for your dining and dancing pleasure. As I said before, I occasionally like to just sit down at the piano, hit the record button and see what happens. Usually what happens is in the key of G, however, this one is is E minor. I know, [...]

Wink Woolery

cjschuette@yahoo.com (Chris Schuette) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:24:14 +0000

Every so often, I am hired to write a piece of music that requires, shall we say, “extra cheese.” In this case, I was hired to write some “game show” music for a local radio show. Well, since my history of rotting my childhood brain with the help of television is a matter of public [...]

Red Wing-ing It

cjschuette@yahoo.com (Chris Schuette) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:57:10 +0000

Patty & I went to Red Wing, MN over the weekend. No, we weren’t there to look at all the vintage photos of Charles Nelson Reilly. We actually went down to load up on small town charm and to look at antiques. Trust me, if you ever dreamed of getting into a slap-fight with a cranky octogenarian [...]

Piano In The Corner

cjschuette@yahoo.com (Chris Schuette) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:02:04 +0000

Every once in awhile, I’ll just sit down at the piano in our Family Room and start playing. And sometimes, I’ll start recording in the hopes of capturing something amazingly awesome. No such event occurred last night, but I still like the little two minute piece I’m posting today. It’s just me improvising through a [...]

Silly Goose

cjschuette@yahoo.com (Chris Schuette) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:08:42 +0000

So I’m getting out of my car at work this morning, and I literally miss planting my clean dress shoes into a conveniently-placed pile of goose-droppings by mere millimeters. Seriously, millimeters! (I had a tape measure with me.) Let me explain something. If I HAD stepped in goose droppings the second I stepped out of [...]

Fall-Type Music Thing

cjschuette@yahoo.com (Chris Schuette) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:25:44 +0000

I have always loved Fall in MN; the way it comes bursting in unannounced and proceeds to drunkenly tell stories about when you used to set your VCR to record every episode of “Small Wonder” back in the 80’s. Oh sure, you can deny it all you want in the hopes that Fall decides to [...]

Thanks, Dad

cjschuette@yahoo.com (Chris Schuette) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:52:52 +0000

Exactly twenty years ago this past weekend, my dad died. Sorry, that’s easily the least cheerful way to begin a blog post, but I’ve found myself thinking about dad a lot lately. Dad was diagnosed in April 1989 with lung cancer and it quickly became evident that there was nothing the doctors could do. He [...]

Class of 1989

cjschuette@yahoo.com (Chris Schuette) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:32:09 +0000

Patty & I attended my 20-year high school reunion yesterday. Patty is a bit younger than me, so she wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I assured her that despite what the 1989 yearbook would suggest, the school hallways did not smell like hairspray & Copenhagen. The cafeteria? yes, but not the hallways. I also [...]

The New CD!

cjschuette@yahoo.com (Chris Schuette) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:38:03 +0000

Good News, Everyone! The new CD, All You Know, has arrived and is available right here. I’ve included a Store link at the top. And yes, I am reacting with the enthusiasm of a beloved cultural icon: Thanks to everyone who supported me and expressed interest in my first-ever piano CD, which is especially odd since [...]