So I'm participating in the wonderful, weird and nonlocal power of the internet by trading a song for this beautiful oil painting you see me snuggling below. (The painting is called Lotus, and it's by UK artist Evlyn Kharag.)



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Andrew Henderson, based in the northwest of England, is trying to trade up from nothing to a Bentley (or a Rolls). Good idea, no? He's not doing too badly either. I'm trade 21; you can read all about it on his website. I'm writing and recording an original instrumental blues that I'm going to send to the victim - I mean tradee - who is somewhere in England, too. He's going to record a vocal and send the vocal back to me; I'm going to mix it in and polish it up real fancy-like.

Seriously, how cool is technology getting? I can remember desperately wanting a four-track analog tape recorder.