Playing Music: The Lost Freedom
How could I have missed this Charles Rosen article? It was even published on my birthday. Aww, he shouldn't have.
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Lucy in the Sky—With Diamonds!
Can one ever truly get enough of the spiced ham that is William Shatner?
Colin Meloy's Literary Bona Fides
If I needed a reason to check out the Decemberists beyond Stephen Mejias' recommendation, this interview would be it.
Ferrofluid Sculpture
Not just for cooling tweeters any more. Strangely arresting.
Friday Cat Blogging 2
Huck: "Heh heh heh. Snooze, you lose, baby!"
Friday Cat Blogging 1
Bagheera; "Who dares to steal my perch of power upon the CD player?"
Accordion Guy's Disappointed in Margot Timmins
Joey deVilla, aka Accordion Guy in the 21st Century, is disgruntled (trust me, Accordion Guy is at his best when he's not gruntled). His beef? The fundraising dinner held last night for Canadian MP Sam Bulte, aka Hollywood's MP, because of the perhaps coincidental linkage between her advocacy of extremely restrictive copyright legislation and her acceptance of financial support (57% of her campaign war chest) from institutions such as the Canadian Motion Pictures Distributors Association, Canadian Publishers Council, and the Entertainment Software Alliance.
Mark Twain vs Tom Sawyer
I love Twain and view UC/Berkeley's Mark Twain Project to print everything. ever written by Sam Clemens (even down to the individual drafts) as God's own work. Yet, like many readers (including Ernest Hemingway), I've always had a problem with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn's final chapters—say, around the time Tom Sawyer highjacks the novel.
I've Suspected This For Years
Does HT surround-sound only need to be "good enough?" According to a new NIH-sponsored study, "the circuits in the brain that process auditory information are influenced powerfully by the circuits that control where the animal is looking—the animal's direction of gaze." Umm, the animal being, for the purposes of this study, a barn owl.
More 21st Century Neologisms
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