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I love rules of thumb, deep wisdom that can be sketched in verbal shorthand. The website Painter Creativity offers 10 rules for naive artists and designers, but they could very easily apply to any freelancer. Most of these are pretty obvious, but when you're hustling for work and worried about that monthly rent bill, you can panic sometimes and fall for the old "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday" line.
There are a lot artists who try as you and they might, never really grab ya. Then there are those who made one single that for some odd reason touched you. No, not there! In the heart or the head or some combination of both. Most are pop artists. And most of these one track wonders fall into the category of the "guilty pleasure."
In listening to what seems like 50 different new reissues of older music for the December issue of Stereophile, or what I'm calling the "Reissue Issue," I ran across Postcards From East Oceanside a Rhino best-of that gathered Paula Cole's work from the three…
Bagheera always looks so intense. She's either polishing up her unified field theory or plotting world domination.
What chapter comes after Chapter 11? The final chapter, of course. Looks like Tower Records has reached it.
Brahms loved making jokes. "And if a good one doesn't occur to me, then [I'll make] a bad one."
How random is the iPod shuffle? Steven Levy is of two minds (at least) on the subject.
Nemesis
Fidelio FACD017
Fidelio FACD017
Thierry Pilote, René Laflamme, prods.; René Laflamme, eng. DDD. 53:40.
Catherine Audet, Fanie Chartier, François Morin: marimba, xylophone, vibraphone, glockenspiel; Yann Lévilleé: percussion, glockenspiel; Thierry Pilote: timbales, marimba, vibraphone, xylophone.
One of the things I regret most about missing the last few Festivals du Son & Image in Montreal is missing René Laflamme's demonstrations, which always feature Verity Parsifal loudspeakers, Nagra electronics, and his own Fidelio recordings. The sound is always spectacular and…