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The Broadcast Flag bill simply won't die. Time to let your representative know how you feel about it.
Greg Sandow has written three long posts about why this might be the end of the classical music era. The link below takes you to the third, but you can scroll down the page and read them in order.
I wish I felt more optimistic than he does, but despite a few minor quibbles, I think he's on the money.
Now that I don't review DVDs professionally, I almost never watch the commentary tracks. Like most folks, I feel I could use that time watching a movie I've never seen before—yet, a few (a very small few) of 'em are interesting or amusing. I think my favorite was Randy Newman's commentary for Pleasantville, which came off as an insider's view of the Hollywood scoring community (his uncles Lionel and Alfred were both film composers).
Ace of Spades HQ has a few more contenders. Insert yours in the comments.
Moving. Who Doesn’t Love It?
So Stereophile has once again moved, fortunately only three floors down in the same building this time out.
We're now mixed in with the Power Boating and Yachting (oh raallly dahhhling) crew. Course they have an autographed photo of Burt Reynolds up on a wall, in black shorts and knobby knees, so hey, things ain’t all bad.
I of course, rushed in, hooked up my office system and began blasting Eddie Van Halen's guitar orgasm, "Eruption" (from the first VH album) at near maximum volume. Many a stunned boating group face drifted by my doorway with an "Oh…
Stephen Strauss argues that we can only really know our nearest relatives by creating cloned reincarnations.
Cue the scary music.
Marc Fisher wonders if sharing the hit record experience is possible in the age of iPod.
Over at Doug Ramsey's always worth checking-out Rifftides, Randy Sandke offers a personal remembrance of Michael Brecker. Not your usual hagiography.
The definition of "fetish" is "object or part of the body that arouses libidinal impulses—often to the exclusion of genital impulses." Fetishizing that annoying Microsoft Word paperclip, however, goes beyond extreme kink into deeply creepy territory.
Website Ionarts alerts us to "the amazingly successful free podcast of the classical concert series at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum."
Over 40,000 downloads of classical concerts? Maybe it's not all doom and gloom in the classical kingdom.
Link below is to the Gardner's podcast site, which actually wants you to share the music: "You are free to share and reproduce these podcasts, and pass this great classical music along to your friends and family. The same goes for the individual tracks you’ll find sorted by musician and composer in the Music Library. We only ask that you…