I'm really looking forward to reading Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.
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I always thought I had a problem with Oliver Sacks. I found his The New Yorker articles interesting, but frustrating—I always had unanswered questions at their end. Then I read Uncle Tungsten and realized that his métier was not the long essay but the book-length exploration of a subject.
Mark Fleischmann, knowing my fascination with Harry Beck's London Tube Map, sends along this tasty variation.
Stanley Wells has a bit of fun with it at The Guardian.
A couple of my dearest friends were in the market for a new table radio. "We had a chance to hear that Bose Wave thing, and it sounded pretty great."
My heart sank. I couldn't let this happen. I'd heard the Bose Wave thing, too, but I had never really paid much attention to it. When I found myself near one, I did whatever I could to turn down the volume. I took this opportunity, however, to learn a bit about it. I visited the Bose Wave website, and was absolutely off-my-ass shocked to find out that it sold for $500.
$500?!
"Yeah, we want something that'…
I haven’t watched all seven of Naxos’ Jazz Icons discs—a DVD box-set of televised European concerts by great jazz musicians in the 1960s—but one of them, Charles Mingus: Live in ’64, is a must-have: two hours of music, videotaped in Belgium, Norway, and Sweden in April 1964, featuring one of Mingus’ most electrifying sextets, including Eric Dolphy, Clifford Jordan, Johnny Coles, Dannie Richmond, and Jaki Byard.
This is the same band that played a month earlier at Cornell University (captured on a CD released just this year on Blue Note), and they play much of the same music—“So Long,…
The Guardian has published some of the greatest interviews of the 20th century on its site. Do not miss Frost/Nixon—and see the play, as well, if you get a chance. I saw it on Broadway with Frank Langella and Michael Sheen and it was one of those moments of theatrical greatness you'll remember in your dotage.
The Guardian interviews Gaiman for no reason other than that he's Neil freaking Gaiman. Works for me.
And, since Making Money is going to be published in the US next week, I'm assuming Terry Pratchett will be interviewed a time or two also. We will, of course, go link-happy when that happens.
Sometimes it is. "In theory, the planet has 24 time zones. Actually, there are about 39, and they are still hotly debated. Within the past month, President Hugo Chavez has talked of moving Venezuela’s clocks forward half an hour, and Indian scientists have urged their government to do the same."
Huckleberry, on the other hand, practices his cat fu mind-tricks out in the open—where they aren't at all effective.