JanuaryJan 2 Saturday 10
Went searching for this obscure soul cut on YouTube yesterday. Couldn't find it, so... I uploaded it! http://bit.ly/82gavR
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DecemberDec 31 Thursday 09
RT @gharness: #10yearsago At the office with other software engineers watching Y2K bug not appear in Singapore, then Japan, then Italy...
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Eau de music criticism
I've been re-reading Nicolas Slonimsky's infamous text, The Lexicon of Musical Invective, and was tickled when I came across this passage in the droll but perceptive Peter Schickele foreword that graces the edition I own:
As a serious composer and also as the sole …
The kid has been awake for two hours, but has yet to emerge from her room. She is reading Wonder Woman comics.
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Suddenly I'm interested in all things Italian. I'll tell you why later.
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The reproducer
If you've never seen or heard a reproducing piano, mentioned in that last post, here's a useful vid. (Holy crap, is there anything that can't be found on YouTube?)
"Animals, which move, have limbs and muscles; the earth has no limbs or muscles; therefore, it does not move." Scipio Chiaramonti
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DecemberDec 30 Wednesday 09
I think I've figured out the airline security problem: everyone must fly naked.
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What passes for scholarship these days: Chapter two, part two
So in another life, ages ago, I wrote this thing called a dissertation, in support of a doctoral degree that I currently get approximately zero material use out of.
Here is the fifth installment of a series that will finally get the whole damned thing out there for …
DecemberDec 29 Tuesday 09
"My other teachers taught me to play songs. You're teaching me to play music." (A student comment that really warmed my heart yesterday.)
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Written with a finger on the back of a very dirty (white) van: "Also available in white!"
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DecemberDec 28 Monday 09
One of these days, I'm gonna start drinking *before* I get to my last student.
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I am a cup of coffee.
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Ah yes. The winter beard is really coming in now.
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Lumpy Monday morning
I have no good reason for posting this video, other than the fact that it has a criminally teeny number of YouTube views.
Just doing my part.
A fantastic collection of interpreters of / tributes to Zappa: http://bit.ly/6yrVgj
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DecemberDec 27 Sunday 09
Resurrecting my habit of taking the dog for really long walks. Probably good for both of us.
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DecemberDec 26 Saturday 09
If the IJG were a movie, it would be "La Dolce Vita."
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DecemberDec 24 Thursday 09
Yes. RT @fullyaltered: The Decade in Music Genre Hype http://tinyurl.com/yc6hdyo Can't agree w/ nearly everything he says, but much is valid
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Playing through obscure hymns in prep for tonight's candlelight service. More evidence that sometimes the best music isn't the most popular.
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