LATEST ADDITIONS

The writers for <I>The Late Show</I> are busy withholding their writing from the studios. So naturally, they started a blog. Great, as if I needed another daily blog addiction.

I just got off the phone with Henry Fiol. Though his singing voice ranges from ethereal to ferocious, his speaking voice is that of the common man&#151a City accent, a casual flow, the blurring of sounds the dropping of syllables a friendly slang. He sounds like a relative, one of my father's cousins. He sounds like family.

Here's seven minutes of the most cringe-worthy rock spectacle I've ever seen. The official story for this caca-phony is that the backing tapes were played back at 48kHz sampling rate as opposed to 44.1kHz. (Umm, in pro sound reinforcement, wouldn't it be the other way around?) I think Eddie, who has to be eligible for AARP now, was concentrating so hard on getting those jumps just right, he didn't notice the incredible suckitude of the solo&mdash;or, for that matter, the song.
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Human "mathletes" and what makes them tick.

Several recordings have been released over and over in a variety of formats and special editions (<I>Kind of Blue</I> is but one example). Which recording do you have the most versions of?

Conspicuous consumption for pets&mdash;and its discontents.

Terry Jones 'fesses up that <I>The Life of Brian</I> might have been even more controversial than it was&mdash;thanks to a couple of deleted "Otto" scenes. However, says one of the two "nice" Pythons, that wasn't why he cut the material.