The Funky Way
A website devoted to exotic (mostly) turntables. Two thoughts struck me: I've actually seen or heard most of these, and I bet if I issued audiophile "baseball cards" I could make a mint.
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Let's Give a Big Hand
. . . To a pianist with small hands.
If you wear this t-shirt...
Hi ______.<br>
Just as you thought, we'd like to come up with a snazzy catch-phrase to go along with the new <i>Stereophile</i> t-shirt design. Some ideas:
Saving All My Love For You
How anyone was surprised that Britney Spears has shaved her head is beyond me. As <I>Stereophile</I>'s assistant editor, the intrepid Stephen Mejias reminded me, she was brainwashed as a toddler thanks to that malevolent mindfuck known as The Mickey Mouse Club. Add to that she's a piece of unreconstructed white trash from Louisiana, who's now been coddled beyond all description and suddenly head shaving looks like the least of her worries.
Interjection, Your Honor
Ben Yagoda on <I>meh</I>, <I>awwa</I>, <I>feh</I>, <I>heh</I>, and all those other interjections. How could he leave out <I>d'oh!</I>?
Honest Recordings
Conductor Kenneth Woods has some thoughts about "honest" recordings. Follow the link to the University of Houston's listserv for a surprising revelation about another widespread classical hoax.
Tapeworms Are About As Strange As Animals Can Get
Carl Zimmer gives us the straight, er, poop on tapeworms.
This is Your Brain on Music
While we listen to music, the areas of your brain that enable our bodies to move are active, even if we're not. The brain, it seems, likes rhythm.
Breed
Today Kurt Cobain would have been 40. Seems like yesterday when we were seeing that searing image of his suicide: the photo taken in the room where he died, of his Converse All Stars, still on his feet, sticking out from behind a piece of furniture.
Which One's Pink?
For Nick Mason, it's driving; for Roger Waters, it's being driven.