Oh yeah, he did it in 40 years with hand tools and a hose.
Via www.plep.org.
Jon Iverson sends along this link to photos.
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Baldasare Forestiere created an underground dwelling that included a network of 100 niches, courts, patios, and passageways, including plantings of trees such as Strawberry, Carob, Jujube, citrus (sometimes multiple graftings on single trunks), Pomegranate, Mulberry, Date Palm, Avocado, Quince, and Persimmon.
One distinguishing mark of the "old" music business, i.e. the one before downloads, the one that made buckets of money, the one where half of my friends used to work, was that it was so big that folks on say, the classical side, had no idea who worked on the rock side. Even within the same company. They were different planets.
Even in today's shrunken music business, that can still happen but perhaps only in Gotham. Last Thursday for me was the kind of day in New York where the level of stimuli either drives you to the edge and makes you certain that your expiration date for fleeing is…
With only one more day at Stereophile before she goes back to school, Kristina says goodbye. For now.
–SM
–SM
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So it appears as if I will be going into blog retirement. For how long, I am uncertain.
I have two days left here at Stereophile. John says he should be wearing black, mourning my departure. I laugh and he tells me once again that I will get far in the business world if I continue to laugh at jokes that are not funny — some sound advice I will definitely take with me. As the summer draws to a close, I think to myself: "Will the audiophile bug…
Ars Technica has a fascinating piece on personal electronics in the war zone. There's an image of a gunner with his iPod fastened to his Fritz helmet that's worthy of iconic status.
Have you been searching high and low for a flabby cliché to use instead of le mot juste? Well, look no further. Hacks rejoice!
Via Boing-Boing.
"Don't download this song
Don't go pirating music all day long
Go buy the CD like you know you should
Oh don't download this song.
Don't go pirating music all day long
Go buy the CD like you know you should
Oh don't download this song.
"Don't take money away from artists like me
How else can I afford another solid-gold Humvee?"
I've been fighting a summer cold and feeling pretty punk, but Fats Waller can make anybody feel good.
I've always been a huge Pixies fan. I was so excited at 2004's reunited tour that I practically needed a minder to get me to the gig. But Frank Black solo, now there's a whole other experience.
No high pitched screaming. No welcome Kim Deal stage presence. No Joey Santiago guitar knives slicing your skull. Just "Gouge Away" on acoustic guitar?
Seeing Black solo, as I did on Saturday night, is a profoundly strange voodoo kind of thing. The crowd all just stood stunned while he played. I think it was the lack of volume or perhaps the lack of his customary unpredictable fury that…