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John Vanderslice's "New Zealand Pines" is the very first song I ever <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/091605where/">mentioned here</a>. It's an interesting choice for a first, and I'm glad I made it.

Take time out for beauty. The Brooklyn Museum has posted all 118 (!) woodblock prints from <I>One Hundred Famous Views of Edo</I>.

"Damned Mozart!"

Bagheera watches Huckleberry bird watch. If he starts making the <I>chit chit</I> noise, she'll reckon it's worth checking out for herself.

I don’t want to write too much about any one musician, but I just got back from seeing clarinetist Anat Cohen’s quartet at the Village Vanguard, and I can’t resist. Her CD, <I>Poetica</I>, is one of the year’s fresh surprises—breezy, heady, and warm (see my <A HREF="http://blog.stereophile.com/fredkaplan/061707jazz/">blog of June 17</A>)—but it’s a mere shadow of what she does live. She plays with a perfect clean tone and an insouciant virtuosity combined with a hip-swaying, eyes-rolling, wide-smiling swing—or with a breath-stopping melancholy, depending on the song.

This clip has it all: Bob Fosse choreography, psychedelic Bach, frug-dancing zombie hippies, and Sammy Davis as a manic street preacher.
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Ants aren't smart. Ant colonies are. Now we're studying how that works.