If you haven't read Be Sweet, Blount's rumination on memories and memoirs, go ahead and treat yourself. If you have, Blount's comments on how many snippets it takes to be A Million Little Pieces become even funnier.
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Roy Blount, one of my favorite writers, was just elected head of the Author's Guild, to which I belong. Yay us!
Chet Raymo has a nice essay rebutting Larry Dossey's screed about why science doesn't accept the wisdom of alternative medicine gurus such as Depak Chopra et al.
And no, I'm not arguing that alternative medicine is bunk—the people I respect who practice it still do serious science attempting to understand it.
Alan is very laid-back. I almost typed "laid-baked," which would be an equally appropriate description. It seems to me that this laid-backness, not to mention laid-bakedness, is a fine quality in a bass player.
Typically, during a performance, Alan chills somewhere near the back of the stage, kind of disappearing while holding everything together, quietly. This behavior also holds true for Alan in other circumstances — parties, at the bar, in restaurants, etc.
This is not to say that Alan is inattentive, but I was pretty damn surprised when he came over to my place one night…
Huckleberry and Bagheera both land uppercuts . . . Huck gets in a left to the body . . . what an animal!
Are Post Office employees stealing your Netflix requests? Mine are too busy reading my April Stereophile. That is why it's late, right?
But Mark Ronson's "Just High" video put such a huge grin on my face, I just had to share it.
I know that I can hear differences between... I mean: I know that music sounds different when...
Crap, what am I trying to say?
Music coming out of the Totem Arros sounds different from [than?] music coming out of the DeVore gibbons. I think that's what I'm trying to say. Something like that, at least.
Music sounds different depending upon the speakers I'm using... er, listening to. Whatever.
There are differences. Real differences. That's for certain.
For certain?
But I can't, for the life of me, figure out what those differences are.…