Back and Forth | The Incoherent Ramblings of Designer and Musician Justin Winslow

The JWin Official Old Fashioned

Justin — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 04:51:34 +0000

It’s taken 2 many years and a great deal of ~~consumption~~ experimentation to achieve old fashioned perfection but, I believe I’ve finally found it.

1/2 oz Simple
12 Shakes Angostura Bitters
3 oz Whiskey (preferably a good rye)

Pour ingredients into a mixing glass over ice. Stir. Strain into your favorite lowball glass – optionally adding an orange peal garnish.

Alabama Shakes

Justin — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 07:53:17 +0000

This is one of the most interesting new groups I’ve heard in a while and their song “I Found You” (included in this performance) is seriously one of the best contemporary pop songs my ears have encountered.

I identify with Soul Train more than any other show that’s been on television…

Justin — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 05:49:01 +0000

My Comments to Elephant Moving Regarding Their “Piano Moving” Services

Justin — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 20:10:38 +0000

After my experience I feel it would be best if you remove piano moving from your list of services. I don’t think the guys that came had ever even seen a piano before, much less moved one.

An appropriate piano moving dolly wasn’t used, they moved the piano from the house to the truck without any sort of protection for the piano and nearly dropped the instrument off the lift on the back of the truck because they didn’t have a secure handle on it.

I’m concerned that non-trivial stresses or damage may surface in the near future as a result of this move and I will have no recourse in the matter. I cannot blame the actual truck crew because they should have never been sent out by Elephant in the first place.

I hope this matter is taken seriously and addressed so that someone with more to lose doesn’t find themselves in the same position as I am now.

-Justin

www.elephantmovingandstorage.com

UPDATE 7/6/2012
A representative was kind enough to reach out to me:

What an absurd suggestion. Of course they have seen a piano. One of the men who moved your piano is one of our certified piano technicians, who disassembles and moves half a dozen grand and baby grand pianos each week, as well as many upright pianos of all sizes. There’s no such thing as a special piano dolly for upright pianos. We use padded 4 wheeled dollies to move upright pianos, and piano boards to move baby grand pianos. Our crews are professional movers and are experienced with moving all sizes and shapes of items.

My response:

This is how a piano should be moved: pianoMoving.jpg

Don’t tell me my suggestion is absurd when the internet can prove me correct in 15 seconds.

Michael Kiwanuka – Tell Me a Tale

Justin — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:39:38 +0000

The biggest surprise from SXSW this year was an emerging artist from the UK ~~Uganda~~, Michael Kiwanuka. I was very fortunate to happen to stumble into him performing at Stubb’s and was absolutely blown away by his voice and the soulful vibe of his music.

Here is the album version of Tell Me a Tale:

The Jazz Trio live at the Holiday Inn

Justin — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:51:17 +0000

This past February we managed to get the original trio back together for a couple nights. The video and audio got out of sync somewhere in the process of ripping the DVD and uploading to YouTube. I will try to resolve this when I have time. In the mean time, here is the whole evening’s performance: