December 2010
65 posts
Pat Metheny on Kenny G [via JazzOasis.com] →
Pat Metheny, you’re a cool guy, but I think you need to settle down, and not let Kenny G get to you.
Once nicknamed the “Beehive of Industry”, Providence began rebranding itself as the “Creative Capital” in 2009 to emphasize its educational resources and arts community. Its previous moniker was “The Renaissance City”, though its 2000 poverty rate was still among the ten highest for cities over 100,000.
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An example of some beautiful tone...
Black musicians had to work fast and hard to escape appropriation. The great early jazz records, from Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens onward, show an art form developing at blinding speed. As the composer Olly Wilson has said, jazz composers compensated for the limitations of the three-or-four minute track by exploiting a “heterogeneous sound ideal”: multiple rhythms,...
“In 1939, a Harvard undergraduate named Leonard Bernstein tried to give an...”
– Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise
“Just an F-Y-I, I’m F-L-Y,
And for those that can’t spell I’m...”
– The Cool Kids, What Up Man?
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to...”
– Bill Hicks (via sheanouveau)
“With that [song] L just thought he had to do a track with the rappers from his...”
– Lord Finesse on the track ‘8 Iz Enuff’ by Big L
“When all other weapons fail, one resorts to force. But there may be nothing...”
– Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
Henry Miller & incense for Christmas? Hell yeah. Hell yeah.
“The concept of creation has been much more linked to art than to science or to...”
– Gilles Deleuze, Cours Vincennes - 15/04/1980 (via ajnabee)
S.F. bookshop owner to close over ADA lawsuit. →
This is weird.
“I am put here to give life to the souls of my charges, to make them happy, to...”
– Lazaro to Angela in ‘Saint Manuel Buneo, Martyr’ by Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
“An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.”
– Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo, The Tragic Sense of Life
“I throw slugs at iddy-ots,
No love fa city cops,
I sport a pretty watch—...”
– Big L, ‘98 Freestyle
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...”
– Franz Kafka (via arsvitaest)
U.K. chart wars: The Trashmen's 1963 surf classic... →
The U.K. pop singles chart this week is topped by the latest winner of Simon Cowell’s hit show “The X Factor,” coming to U.S. TV screens soon. But on his way to No. 1 with his single “When We Collide,” newly crowned pop star Matt Cardle got a surprise challenge from a nearly 50-year-old U.S. surf-rock classic.
The Trashmen’s “Surfin’ Bird’’ — the one boasting the Shakespearean...
Louis Armstrong performing My Bucket’s Got A...
Selection from a New York Times article about the obsolescence of e-mail:
Signs you’re an old fogey: You still watch movies on a VCR, listen to vinyl records and shoot photos on film.
They really didn’t give us Fine Arts kids a chance, did they?
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Lena Jenny, 17, a high school senior in Cupertino, Calif., said texting was so quick that “I sometimes have an answer...
“I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what...”
– Albert Einstein
Roland Emmerich to film Asimov's Foundation... →
Between this and the Straw Dogs remake… I think people should stop making new movies about stuff that is certifiably bad-ass; if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?
“Listen — strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for...”
– Dennis
“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack...”
– Richard Wright
Akron/Family Explore The Cosmic Birth and Journey... →
…Dead Oceans… has revealed that the band will release a new album, S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT, in early 2011. The press release suggests that the band submitted the album to Dead Oceans in a large cardboard box left on the label’s doorstep: Opening it revealed a sincere, but poorly made, diorama of futurist swirling spaces filled with toy astronauts...