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Big Rock Candy Mountain is a big, beautiful blog, filled with wonderful writing about music (mostly) and full of MP3 links pertinent to the posts. I love the post for February 8, "Strange Revival," which links to Fern Jones' fabulous cover of Sister Rosetta Tharpe's "Strange Things Happening Every Day," which has to be the most joyous report of the impending end times I have ever heard.
Remember when the writing about music was as great as the music itself? Even when I violently disagreed with Bangs (his review of David Bromberg's first album, for instance), he wrote so hard and hot, I had to respect that it was his opinion and not just the music critics' party line. When he loved something, he conveyed what it was he loved better than just about anybody. (Except perhaps for Ian MacDonald, but that was the subject of a post yesterday.)
It's been quieter than usual.
JA's holed up in his dark office, agonizing over an equipment report. Elizabeth and I have been bent over "Recommended Components" blurbs all day. I've become tired — my eyes can only catch so many bad breaks and ugly indentations — and so have spent the last ten minutes browsing Komegashi's online menu. I don't usually drink sake, but the idea of it now, with you, is wonderful. A hot lover roll might be nice, too. We'll sit by the windows and watch the boats dance in the wind. The lights across the water will blink their little songs.
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Don't try this at home.
wiseguysynth has more technical details about this video clip.
I emailed my cousin, the gorgeous and talented Jean Carwile Masteller, about the wonders of reading Cotton Mather on the internets and she countered with the fabulous Whitman Hypertext Archive. Both are courtesy of the University of Virginia's digital library project, where my old friend Thorny Staples is helping Mr. Jefferson's university do wonders in the electronic age.
Add Jazz and Conversation to your list of favorite sites. Intelligent musings and great musical examples—what's not to love? It's free and you get to discover new music you might not have heard anywhere else.
Unreleased Fillmore East, Fillmore West, and Winterland performances available as 128kbps streams. I haven't been able to get it working completely glitch free, but some of these performances are pretty amazing and I'd buy 'em if they were available in a non-compromised format. Wolfgang, BTW, was Bill Graham's birth name.
Nice animated short that's one part Green Lantern, one part The Monkey's Paw, and one part Brazil—that is, if you also watch the director's cut ending.
Via Grow-a-Brain.