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"I'm an abstract expression," Huckleberry boasts. "Bold, vivid, active—wait, what was that middle thing again?"
Hint to recording engineers: Anna Netrebko gives it to you in the second sentence of graf 8.
Forty years ago, Bonnie and Clyde blew away Hollywood's attitude about bloody violence. The Observer looks back.
Living in Stereo has promoted this Daniel Wolff essay on "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" since its publication in Threepenny Review in 1999. I read it on the occasion of Elvis' 72nd birthday and I agree that it's a fine piece of writing—and well worth linking to.
I don't agree with everything Wolff says, especially his lack of regard for Peter Guralnick's two-volume biography of the King, but he's not completely wrong about Guralnick either. PG wrote much more insightfully about music he loves than music he doesn't care for—and who is really surprised by that?
What struck me so…
Because, three weeks later, my back, butt, and legs were still hurting, I decided to go to the doctor. My doctor is an audiophile. He had had a wonderful time at the Home Entertainment Show last May. He's mostly attracted to the more exotic loudspeakers such as the Proclaim Audioworks DMT-100 and Loiminchay Mandarin Supreme, but he's also very enthusiastic about smaller, more affordable designs from ZVOX and Audioengine.
Anyway, my doctor thinks I have a slightly herniated disc, but says I'm doing fairly well, all things considered. He demonstrated a few stretches and suggested I…
I love this stuff. If I was rich beyond dreams of avarice, I would so collect it.
Steampunk "embodies both handicraft and mass-production elements in a rich visual vocabulary totally lacking in today's plastic, cheap-jack gadgets." And, don't forget, lots of brass screws.
______ "who receive electric shocks carry the device around in a backpack and wear the electrodes 24 hours a day; some are also monitored at all times by at least one Rotenberg Center employee."
Fill in the blank. If you answered "enemy combatant," you'll be horrified to learn the answer is children guilty of "nagging, swearing, and failing to maintain a neat appearance" at the Judge Rotenberg Center in Massachusetts, a "'special needs school,' [that] takes in all kinds of troubled kids—severely autistic, mentally retarded, schizophrenic, bipolar, emotionally disturbed—and attempts to…
Over at The Audiophiliac, Steve Guttenberg's CNET blog, there's a superb piece on Daptone Records, Brooklyn's own old-school analog record label. I heard Daptone artists the Budos Band on Soundcheck a few weeks ago and loved the classic '60s sound on their record.
BTW, you might as well bookmark Guttenberg's blog. It's a daily visit here at Stereophilia.