The finale of the 1963 American Folk Blues Festival. Otis Spann and Memphis Slim on piano; Big Joe Williams, Sonny Boy Williamson,Lonnie Johnson, Victoria Spivey, and Muddy Waters sing; Matt "Guitar" Murphy, guitar; and Bill Stepney, drums.
You've got to love an essay that has the following paraphrase of Plato's <I>Meno</I> dialog:
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<I>Socrates</I>: Here is a square with sides of length 2 and area equal to 4. If we double the area, to 8 units, what will the length of a side be?
I find my logic compelling, but Bagheera doesn't buy it—she thinks DVD players make excellent perches.
"Are you lonesome tonight,
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Do you miss me tonight?
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Are you sorry we drifted apart?
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Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare?
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Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there?
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Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again?"
Peanut tubes!
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In an enterprising attempt to serve music lovers via the Internet, Universal Classics has launched <A HREF="http://www.decca.com/deccaconcerts">Decca Concerts</A>. An unprecedented partnership between the label and some of the world's better-known symphony orchestras, the website gives classical music lovers the ability to download very recent live orchestral performances "from the world's most important musical cities." The performances are generally no more than 10 days old, depending on how much postproduction editing is needed.
A chancery court in England has issued a ruling that, if left to stand, may have a profound effect on copyright holders throughout popular music.
I'd been looking forward to reading Neal Gabler's <I>Walt Disney: The Triumph of American Imagination</I>. Well, that was before I read his essay <A HREF="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-gabler17dec17,0,1578644.story… Disney: Man or Mouse"</A> in the <I>LA Times</I>. It was, shall we say, curiously flat for such a meaty subject.
Rob Paravonian says, "I'll See You in Hell, Pachelbel."
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