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I really like this animated short. I don't know who produced it, but he or she tells a nice story in just over two minutes.
Is it me or does Phil Spector, the Wall–of–Sound inventor turned murder suspect, look more and more like a middle aged woman, particularly with his new blonde doo. If I were his lawyer I might have asked that he not change his hairstyle from notoriously weird to super weird on the eve of the trial. The photos, CNN.com has some doozies, that are really, really strange. Him with that Doris Day gone mad hair waving a pistol around demanding God knows what? Whatever the verdict, the man needs supervision.
It's official. The record business has again become a singles business. downloading…
Joshua Ferris ponders the absence of work in literature. We spend most of our lives doing it, but it's MIA on the pages—unless you're a soldier, whaler, or private eye.
"A linkworthy piece of musical-cultural criticism," writes John Marks. I agree. Now if John Derbyshire had merely said Saturday Night Fever was the greatest movie ever, I'd have agreed to disagree. His passionate and specific arguments, however, have convinced me to see it again with an open mind.
Bagheera prefers lurking in the shadows, but every once in a while, she imitates a puddle of black on a light background.
From the Washington Post:
"It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano," Rostropovich liked to say, adding that in the making of music, emotion was more important than technique. "You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart."
For his own technical expertise, he offered only this explanation: "I don't even know why my hands do certain things sometimes. They just grab for notes."
Scientific American tells you how to construct a quantum eraser at home—a devise that proves that actions in the present can change our basic interpretation of what happened in past events.
But, gosh darn it, traditional "light is a wave" physics could also explain the results with no quantum mechanics involved. But that would make the universe a much less weird place, so I won't worry about it.
The Times has published a lost Daphne du Maurier epistolatory short story unpublished for 70 years.
That's what Tommy and Stuart Mitchell think. They claim the 15th century chapel's ornately carved patterns and cubes contain a musical sequence, concealed "because knowledge of harmonics may have been seen as dangerous, even heretical, by 15th Century church authorities."
This strikes me as unlikely, given that Pythagoras was widely known in the 15th century, but I like a good puzzle as much as the next guy. There's even the possibility that the music will be pretty good. After all, one of my favorite recordings of the last decade posits that there's a hidden obituary for his dead wife…