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The Beeb censored Shane MacGowan's "Fairytale of New York" for its use of a slur.
Sam Leith argues that Auntie mistook a slur for a swear-word—an unforgivable sin in the maidenly world of journalism.
John Atkinson and I spent some time today admiring Tal Wilkenfeld's bass playing. Sheesh. The girl is only 21 years old. Beyond her sheer skill, which is stunning, Wilkenfeld seems to just know how to play. I first caught her on PBS one night while flipping through channels. It was Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival, and she was performing with Jeff Beck. I was surprised to see such a young musician on stage with one of rock's living legends, but I soon discovered that Wilkenfeld was right where she belonged. Seems she always knew. Story goes that Wilkenfeld dropped out of her…
Well, if you're tired of being jolly, you could go see No Country For Old Men, which will counteract any amount of Whooville saccharine. John Patterson has a good time with the Coen brothers.
It occurs to me that in the three years I've been posting Friday cat blogging, I have never photographed Bagheera asleep. That wary look of hers is as close to complacent as she gets.
For a cat who only drinks water, Huckleberry certainly does a passable imitation of a drunken stupor.
I gotta tell ya, hon':
When the morning sun shines through my white curtains like it did today, there's nothing more I'd rather do than just sit down and feel it and listen to music and think of things. Things. I think I'd listen to Joanna Newsom followed by Bill Callahan followed by Richard Buckner followed by Iron & Wine followed by I don't know what else and it'd all be good.
I think I'd smile and think about good things. I was thinking about how my mom recently purchased a new enormous flat-screen television to replace the other new enormous flat-…
Now that Christmas has come and gone, and my need to hear Bobby Helms' "Jingle Bells Rock" has subsided — I'm not sure but I think it has something to do with those electric guitar flourishes—, it's seems an appropriate time to say something about the continuing and astonishing turmoil in the record business which according to most sources experienced a nearly 20 percent decline in sales of physical product compared with last Christmas.
I was at a holiday party populated by teenagers, who I immediately played reporter on to find what they were listening to and buying. To my…
When I picked up the mail on Saturday, I had an unexpected package. It contained Vance Dickason's Loudspeaker Design Cookbook, 7th Edition. Oh boy!
When I built my first pair of loudspeakers, there wasn't anything like this comprehensive tutorial on speaker building, so I built a pair of boxes the size of the speakers I thought I'd like, went down to Allied Radio and bought the biggest woofer that would fit, a slightly smaller midrange driver, and a multi-cell horn tweeter and just cut holes in the front baffle and wired 'em up.
It sounded—of course—like the dog's breakfast…