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"No treats, no cuteness," said Huckleberry. "We're strictly on a pay-for-play system from now on."
Why listening to music is no longer relaxing. How many times do we have to say it? Enough already with 1dB dynamic ranges!
Yesterday's was a special blue, more like spring becoming summer than summer becoming fall. Today's began gray, but looks to be clearing. I like it when the clouds are fat and heavy like this.
I have been thinking about our "Products of the Year" feature. The winners are smiling at me now. Smiling like sunshine peeking around the corner of a cloud. There are photo finishes, landslides, upsets and surprises. I wish I could tell you who the winners are, but that would spoil some of the fun. I can tell you this: I think you'll be happy.
"Do you want a new intro, too?" I…
Art or magic? I suspect both, having been fascinated by them ever since attending an exhibition of meticulously rendered reproductions about 20 years ago, Dang, but they're powerful and specific.
Ah well, we chattering classes really do need fodder for our chatter, do we not?
Are Bose-Einstein Coordinates really a fifth state of matter? Are these really BECs?
The current issue of The Oxford American is their annual music issue, which comes with a 24-track CD. This year's CD includes the Swan Silvertones, Big Star, Eartha Kitt, Junior Kimbrough, and "The Theme from Ali & His Gang vs Mr. Tooth Decay."
All this and Roy Blount's cranky un-appreciation of Bob Dylan, not to mention editor Marc Smirnoff's paean to used record stores. Well worth the $9.95 cover price, if not the annual subscription (and I reckon it's worth the whole pop).
Wine tasting robot identifies reporter as being "prosciutto," cameraman as "bacon."
Why do they call this a mistake? The one time I severely burned my hand, it sure smelled like roast pork! (I had about a nanosecond to identify the smell before my trusty pain receptors clicked into overdrive.)
The music business needs to start developing talent or the slump they're currently in is not gonna get any better any time soon. One reason people aren't buying records anymore, or downloads if you must, is that in some genres there's a lack of compelling talent.
Course that's common sense, and this is a business that seems to always be looking for a silver bullet. Or backward at its glorious past.
Fitting right in with that last vision is the "new" Beatles album that's in the offing. Amazing how many new albums come from people who've been dead for years ain't it? This one will use music…
I'm still writing.
First, I hoped to be finished by Friday evening. How nice it would have been to leave the office without an audio-related care in the world. When that proved impossible, I thought I might be able to knock it out over the weekend. But you know how that goes. (A guy's gotta do laundry. As I watched the clothes spin, my mind filled with images of silk-dome tweeters.) Of course, it would have felt good to insert the final period and click "save" before this morning came, but: no such luck. (There were dishes to wash. Drinking glasses morphed into power tubes, dinner…