Free Music
Website Ionartshttp://ionarts.blogspot.com/2007/01/gardner-podding.html">Ionarts; alerts us to "the amazingly successful free podcast of the classical concert series at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum."
Wes Phillips
March of the Emperors
This one minute commercial for the French movie channel Canal+ nearly had coffee spurting out my nose.
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Tall Tale Postcards
When I traveled through Wisconsin in the '70s, you could still buy these for a quarter at junk shops around the state. Sure wish I'd taken advantage of the opportunity—as if we needed more stuff around here.
Ars Longa, Vita Brevis
As a child who grew up reading the light humor of S. J. Perelmam and James Thurber, I worshipped at the altar of Art Buchwald. I didn't know it at the time, but, looking back on it, he taught me a tremendous amount about the importance of voice. If the practice truly is treacherous, well, Buchwald certainly made it look easy.
Bring Back the Neanderthal
Stephen Strauss argues that we can only really know our nearest relatives by creating cloned reincarnations.
Do Listeners Want A Common Musical Language?
Marc Fisher wonders if sharing the hit record experience is possible in the age of iPod.
Sandke On Brecker
Over at Doug Ramsey's always worth checking-out Rifftides, Randy Sandke offers a personal remembrance of Michael Brecker. Not your usual hagiography.
Yet Another Sexual Kink I Don't Understand
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.
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It's Baa-aack!
The Broadcast Flag bill simply won't die. Time to let your representative know how you feel about it.
Where We Stand: Parts 1–3
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.