Wood and Wire Music

Musical journey, photographs and other happenings from the world of Jim Goodin.

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This Year, Death Valley - JDRF Ride to Cure Diabetes

This Year, Death Valley – JDRF Ride to Cure Diabetes

Though I’ve not been doing a good job keeping this blog updated over the last year but the pedaling has continued for the most part through the year.  I did have a crash in late April and suffered a fracture to my left foot and a little mental fear but the foot healed and the mental stamina is moving forward! The BIG news is I’m all aboard for my 3rd JDRF Ride to Cure Diabetes and this fall I’m…

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Words On New Music - Artists Chat, Apr 2016, Episode 3

Words On New Music's Jim Goodin and special guest host J.C. Combs talk to micro tonal composer Chris Vaisvil and synthesist and composer Bill Newbold from the Sound-In.org New Music net community. this is showdate April 2016, episode 3.

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Words On New Music - Artists Speak!

Words On New Music's Jim Goodin and Paul Muller host a chat with artists from the New Music community Sound-In. This episode Bill Newbold, James Bailey, J.C. Combs, Paul Muller and Jim Goodin talk about the music they make.Music selections heard on this episode

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Spontaneous at My Tiny Desk

Too many social medias and carbon on my shoes which has made me not been on Tumblr in a very long time.  On trying to occasionally return I will promote my entry in @nprmusic ‘s Tiny Desk Contest.  My entry spontaneous lap steel and acoustic guitars.  https://youtu.be/pq25a1WPcLw

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About time for another post...

About time for another post…

This time last year I was heavily blogging my growing interest in biking, returning after many years/fears away and paralleling getting ready for my first Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Int’l (JDRF) Ride to Cure Diabetes. Well I didn’t stop the pedaling just got caught up in distractions and didn’t keep the writing going so it hit me today that I should try to occasionally get this…

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Lines along Clinton

Yesterday morning on my daily commute in to work in Manhattan some of these lines came to mind and later the rest. Along Clinton Shadows and sun Lighting the path ahead Looking to left and right Will the 4 wheeler stay parallel People rushing people passing Escalated world surrounds Ring ring ring Coming to the bridge entrance Waiting on the light to change Another biker takes the chance Another…

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Just released, 'Why I Ride'

I’m riding in the JDRF 2015 Tucson Ride to Cure Diabetes to raise support and money for JDRF and type 1 diabetes research.  Please share this video where you like and consider donating at http://www2.jdrf.org/goto/jamesgoodinJDRFRide.  Thank you!

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Ridin' the Bloomin' Metric

Ridin’ the Bloomin’ Metric

2:30 am wake – get ready.  Rain and thunder showers heavy in the forecast so rain jacket/pants/leggings/gloves packed gambling but anticipating this ride in Connecticut possible drencher.  Couple from our group already listened to their reasonable selves but hell-bent for leather me, positive coach vibes and mere take your chances even if scared says maybe it won’t rain or maybe it will be light.…

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Over the bridge, into the Woods...

Over the bridge, into the Woods…

to Grandmother’s house we go, the horse and the sleigh know the …. whoops wrong season. But it was three bikers three from the JDRF Crankee midst doing an extracurricular ride as we just can’t get enough pedaling turning the cogs to make type 1 type 0. Teammate Brian Herrick pulled a west bound route from his past to Ridgewood, NJ.  I joined Brian via way of Crown Heights taking me to new bike…

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Good miles, good community today

We gathered this morning for some local loops in Prospect Park.  We, the local chapter of riders affectionately dubbed the Crankees, who are all in training together for one of seven national charity bike rides helping to raise awareness and fund-raising for type one diabetes and research to improve the lives of those afflicted as well as one day finding a cure.

This is my second season doing a…

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A return to Tucson in 2015...

A return to Tucson in 2015…

Early beginnings of 2014 JDRF / El Tour de Tucson

It has been a preoccupied winter and spring and from all appearances my blog kind of up and died but not really.  I started TucsonBound nearly a year ago to date, as a proclamation of a return to cycling paralleling my training and fundraising journey in my first JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Int’l) Ride to Cure Diabetes of which…

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Mile 59 and finish in sight!

Possibility of balance (possibly)?

Long overdue and written back in the winter these were my document on the last hours of of 2014’s JDRF Tucson Ride to Cure Diabetes at El Tour de Tucson.

Though I had done almost as many miles before I got to El Tour when I got to the 2nd JDRF official rest stop and my odometer shown 59 miles, it was then it was kicking that ‘okay I’m gonna make’.  There was something magic in that mark which…

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Confidence grows, getting there - Ride to Cure, El Tour part 2

Confidence grows, getting there – Ride to Cure, El Tour part 2

As I retell this story I’m going over the cue sheet and Google maps recalling the path.  It was really amazing, almost make-believe to me at times.  I had ridden the distance on a Century in the boroughs of NYC but this whole wide open spaces even in the civilization of Tucson was huge.  A pre-race concern was I’d fall behind, take a wrong turn and lose valuable time trying to get back on course.…

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Rubber Side Down! The day has arrived...

Rubber Side Down!

Those words rallied off one of the most exciting moments when myself and 100 plus cyclists of the 2014 JDRF Ride to Cure Diabetes national team along with 2,000 cyclists from all over pushed down the first pedal stroke off the start line of the 32nd annual El Tour de Tucson which took place in Tucson, AZ, this past Saturday (Nov 22, 2014). 

nat’l JDRF coach John Dallman

This early morn start-up…

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