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I love Cantaloupe Records. David Lang's The Passing Measures is one of the most beautiful compositions I've heard this millennium and Phil Kline's Zippo Songs was my hit of CES2006. While supplies last, you can order a free Bang On A Can/Cantaloupe Records sampler and find out for yourself how good their recordings are. Adventurous and different—and did I mention free?
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Blowing your buffer: Losing one's chain of thought
GOOD job: "get out of debt" job
World Wide Wait: What did you think www. stood for?
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.
Studies on ordinary couch potatoes are in the works, I'm sure.
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.
The moral center of the novel, of course, is Huck's decision that sacrificing his friend Jim's freedom to ensure his own eternal salvation isn't a choice he can make. "All right then, I'll GO to hell" may be one of the most powerful lines in all of…
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.
Of course, AG, isn't simply…
If I needed a reason to check out the Decemberists beyond Stephen Mejias' recommendation, this interview would be it.
Money quote: "'While your typical Poetry 101 workshop will churn out blank verse like crazy, I was writing really tightly metered, rhymed couplets,' he says. 'I've always loved using rhythm, meter, and rhyme in poetry. And, consequently, mine comes off as pretty naive.'"
Can one ever truly get enough of the spiced ham that is William Shatner?