facebookmyspacetwitterflickrTumblr (3.0; @chrisayer)http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/<p>spring tour! in the south for the next couple weeks</p>http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/82417641http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/82417641Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:27:43 -0500<img src="http://23.media.tumblr.com/zKMLNwNHwk65uau8mZtCKx2to1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>cool. happy birthday yoko.</p>http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/79907760http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/79907760Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:44:14 -0500<p>starting spring tour today! in mid-february.. wishful thinking rules</p>http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/79429592http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/79429592Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:05:37 -0500<img src="http://5.media.tumblr.com/zKMLNwNHwjzovbkcBAAjykkWo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/78587210http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/78587210Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:02:35 -0500<img src="http://2.media.tumblr.com/zKMLNwNHwjid3rxotYmCnpa0o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/75348617http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/75348617Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:01:09 -0500<img src="http://20.media.tumblr.com/zKMLNwNHwjdk9c5rHrknKGe7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/74509347http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/74509347Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:22:35 -0500<img src="http://11.media.tumblr.com/zKMLNwNHwjdk81erA4eXoNOZo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/74509230http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/74509230Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:21:35 -0500<img src="http://10.media.tumblr.com/zKMLNwNHwjdk49x7a4B9vC5Mo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/74508879http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/74508879Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:18:39 -0500<p>LA show at Hotel cafe friday at7! saturday in san diego at lestats! ready for some california</p>http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/72118626http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/72118626Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:33:03 -0500<p>at the inauguration this week!</p>http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/71015348http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/71015348Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:48:34 -0500<p>is in nashville recording new songs</p>http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/69258596http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/69258596Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:31:43 -0500<img src="http://1.media.tumblr.com/zKMLNwNHwiftdy79lca9UQ2Po1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>hah!  birthday wishes from Kelly Clarkson.  This means that A) at some point I gave my personal email and birthday info to Kelly Clarkson.  or B) Kelly Clarkson is omniscient.  Obviously the second…</p>http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/68965063http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/68965063Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:33:54 -0500<p>happy new year! it’s going to be a good one.</p>http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/67883889http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/67883889Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:25:38 -0500<p>I-95 south towards virginia</p>http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/65382857http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/65382857Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:53:09 -0500<p>sick as all hell. any recommendations for wonder cures, magical elixirs, secret shakra realignments, etc?</p>http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/65185422http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/65185422Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:00:14 -0500<img src="http://6.media.tumblr.com/zKMLNwNHwhht7d8y2Zh6iOCDo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/64855167http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/64855167Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:24:39 -0500<img src="http://23.media.tumblr.com/zKMLNwNHwhht3eg6gyZTiQCSo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/64854793http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/64854793Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:21:33 -0500<img src="http://9.media.tumblr.com/zKMLNwNHwhht1hkcnwB0dvdDo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/64854666http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/64854666Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:20:06 -0500<img src="http://21.media.tumblr.com/zKMLNwNHwhhsywx3nuj6MnB9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/64854387http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/64854387Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:18:06 -0500<p>I was running in place at the gym today, as I tend to do, and noticed that everyone in the place was running or biking or elliptical-ing at the exact same rhythm.  it went on for a couple minutes, and happened again a bit later, for another couple of minutes.  the whole room was like a drum, throbbing to the collective beat.  I was struck by what a cool example of rhythmic entrainment it was… just like how two people in room together will sync up heartbeats eventually, or how our brainwaves mimic the rhythm of the music we listen to.  women’s cycles, fireflies flickering… all our rhythms want to be the same!</p> <p>I love it.  Also a pretty perfect moment of commonality amidst the narcissism of sweaty self-image sculpting (I’m not above it).</p> <p><a title="article on entrainment" href="http://www.sleepwarrior.com/brain-waves-brainwave-entrainment" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.sleepwarrior.com/brain-waves-brainwave-entrainment" target="_blank">http://www.sleepwarrior.com/brain-waves-brainwave-entrainment</a></a></p> <p>(I also need to credit Gabe Turow for teaching me everything I know about sonic entrainment, and also for pretty well messing with my mind with some rhythmic experiments back in school.  It was excellent. A paper he prepared at Stanford based on his research is available in PDF <a title="G. Turow - Auditory Driving as a Ritual Technology: A Review and Analysis (2005)" href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/brainwaves/2006/AuditoryDrivingRitualTech.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>)</p>http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/64142222http://chrisayer.tumblr.com/post/64142222Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:10:00 -0500