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Comment on About by petebrunelli

petebrunelli — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:37:15 +0000

Yep! That’s me. How weird, because I have a friend at EnviroMed and we were talking shop last week, and I asked him about EnviroScience. Most of what I remember was the desperation, and that the two people who left when I left were heading off to be a Camp Counselor (Amy?) and manning a fire lookout tower (Greg?), and I was a week away from enrolling in massage therapy school before landing a job at GTI! Daummmmmmmm! Scary Shit.

Comment on About by Joe Vetrano

Joe Vetrano — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:03:12 +0000

Pete!!
Is this THE Pete Brunelli, former co-captive of N. Freuden & Company, former denizen of the back-room lab, and formerly sworn to Enviro-Silence?
Nice blog, man.

Joe V.

Comment on Pseudo-Random by Harry

Harry — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:04:19 +0000

Your Amiga gave me my first taste of electronic dance music composition. Been into it ever since.

Comment on Occupy Blog Street by Harry

Harry — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:03:09 +0000

Bingo, Bro.

Comment on Pseudo-Random by petebrunelli

petebrunelli — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:54:38 +0000

Yeah, IIRC it predated the barrage of other Apple hardware (IIe, Lisa, 128k Mac…), CoCo, Timex/Sinclair, and C64 hardware that filtered through the house… That machine also predated your Sinclair (with sidecar ram!), CoCo and PC Jr daze… I still have a Lazer128… the Apple IIe Clone! Weird… All said, I still miss my Amiga.

Comment on Pseudo-Random by Harry

Harry — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:57:08 +0000

I saw that Apple II at your house!

Comment on A tip of the hat to Olivier Longuet by petebrunelli

petebrunelli — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:04:19 +0000

Yeah, the scary part is that it does seem like yesterday! I remember playing electric and double bass in the summer band program at JFK Jr. High in the summer before I started high school. I smacked up my dad’s Datsun right after school ended (at the tender age of 14) and summer bnd was the only time I was let out of the house for a month. Talk about motivation…. Playing electric bass in a concert band was kinda like my calling card… did it at St. Paul as well.

I think that I have been victim of “not enough hours in the day” syndrome with both photography and music. I could use a lot more work on my chops in both venues. Have almost ditched one for the other many many times in the past 30+ years. Seeing the work of guys like Olivier, and playing alongside people like bassist Helene Labarriere in France, yeah… it just grabs you by the scruff and says “work to do”

Comment on A tip of the hat to Olivier Longuet by Harry

Harry — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:34:18 +0000

I remember you playing bass and taking photos when you were 15 … seems like yesterday, Bro.

Comment on The Blog Post I Did Not Want To Write… by Harry

Harry — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:22:29 +0000

Great post, Peter. And it’s not business as usual – this is a whole new game and Mr. Obama is defending the gates whilst the UberWealthy load the gold bars into their Bentleys.

9/11 was a game changer.

Amazing immorality, and even worse, amazing tolerance for it on the part of the Right and the Tea Party idiots.

Comment on The Blog Post I Did Not Want To Write… by petebrunelli

petebrunelli — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:55:20 +0000

Gino, I am definitely of the opinion that the incident of 9/11 was used to subvert our constitution, reduce our freedoms, and initiate extreme foreign policy decisions. Show me a Democrat that is saying that? The terrorists may not have won, but we handed them a lot of moral victories. As someone who does a fair amount of travel I am subject a lot of things that make me less free to move around, less free in action and in speech etc…, but don’t really add security benefit. I don’t think we have ever had a war effort that didn’t come with an economic uptick, but this current situation has. That is all about money being transferred wholesale out of the US Treasury and into private hands, with no return. See the news from Donny Runsfeld *today* regarding the Trillions of dollars unaccounted for in Pentagon spending. You think that would have passed muster in WWII? Me Neither.