02/06/2011
Parking Lot
div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/39742531@N06/5422690999/" title="photo sharing"img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5060/5422690999_73d2b2a45c_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" //abr /span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/39742531@N06/5422690999/"Parking Lot/abr /Originally uploaded by a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/39742531@N06/"PhotoChemical/a/span/divIndependence, MObr clear="all" /div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/768478054271819
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08/12/2010
The Sneaky Mister: "Umbrella" by Rihanna
object width="480" height="295"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-qBBOrzy4c8?fs=1amp;hl=en_US"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-qBBOrzy4c8?fs=1amp;hl=en_US" width="480" height="295" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed/objectbr /br /For reasons it would take a super-internet-al¹ word count to explain, this restores my faith in music as a viable hobby/amusement. br /br /¹Writing on the internet automatically makes me a sub-literate moron, which is nice, b/c I can ...
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07/06/2010
Dying of Natural Causes
I thought a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/arts/music/06vacancies.html?hp"this was interesting article in the New York Times/a. Apparently there a lot of chairs in major orchestras left unfilled; the Times mentions as a peripheral issue the real heart of the matter: orchestras are not as flush as they once were. This is encouraging.br /br /span class="fullpost"I grew up on "classical" music. The good people of the state of California spent God-only-knows-how-much on my education in what is really the art music tradition of Western Europe from 1450 to 1950. I am calling the end of Aaron Copland's productive decade in the 1940's the ...
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06/25/2010
New Thrift Store Paintings
div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/39742531@N06/4733907132/" title="photo sharing"img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1333/4733907132_066f9439ef_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" //abr /span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/39742531@N06/4733907132/"WTF/abr /Originally uploaded by a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/39742531@N06/"PhotoChemical/a/span/divPhotography urge comes and goes lately. It came on in a big way while looking around a flea market/thrift store type place in Grandview.br clear="all" /div ...
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06/23/2010
Practice Video Journal 8
I decided to start a video practice journal/blog to keep track of my musical development, which seems to be picking up pace lately after a long plateau. I searched YouTube for "practice journal" and found this gem, which appears to be a couple of deleted scenes from a David Lynch joint. Don't miss 3:09 - LOL.br /br /span class="fullpost"object style="background-image:url(http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/DlBA_2xzh3M/hqdefault.jpg)" width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DlBA_2xzh3Mamp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.c
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06/03/2010
As Seen on TV - a tribute to doing it wrong
How many times has this happened to YOU!?!br /br /object style="background-image:url(http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/08xQLGWTSag/hqdefault.jpg)" width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/08xQLGWTSagamp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/08xQLGWTSagamp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1" width="425" height="344" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed/objectdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7
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05/29/2010
Roy Hargrove RH Factor - The Joint
Just got home from two gigs in a row - seven solid hours of relatively high energy playing. You'd think I'd be dead tired, but I'm thinking about how much better a musician I want to be. So I'm up watching great player on YouTube. Check out Roy Hargrove. span class="fullpost"br /br /I saw him as just plain old "Roy Hargrove" (straight ahead jazz) at the Folly when they were doing their great jazz series. He was great then, but I would love to see this "RH Factor" lineup. They are killin here.br /br /object style="background-image:url(http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/5RMWtTPK7ao/hqdefault.jpg)" width="425" height="344"param name="movie" ...
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05/25/2010
Pat Metheny Jazz Guitar Class - 03 - All The Things You Are
object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TJm-vFhZQOwamp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TJm-vFhZQOwamp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed/objectbr /br /span class="fullpost"Pat. Mofo. Metheny. You get the impression that this is the song he starts absentmindedly playing when he picks up a guitar. And that he has found something new in the changes every time he's played it. Every ...
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05/19/2010
What Separates Us from the Animals
ul liTax Evasion /li liRelatively Low Curiosity about Smells /li liBars/Glass /li liAnimal age is computed as a simple product, while human age is calculated by a complex differential equation formulated to make oneself appear as young as is plausible in any given group /li liWhile embarrassment over nakedness has been overcome, embarrassment over dated fashions has gained strength. The evolutionary purpose of this trait is as yet unclear. /li liInability to lick own genitals (emso far/em)! /li liThat there are no hipsters in nature is a common misconception; some chimps are born hipsters, but in amazing display of social ...
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05/17/2010
Brutally Repressive, Hopelessly Backward Culture Maybe Not so Bad
pNot too long ago I heard an old episode of “This American Life” in which the subject of one of the stories was an Afghan man who had been in love with a girl whom he couldn’t marry because she had no dowry. /p span class="fullpost" pWait – the subject wasn’t really the Afghan man, but the precious little feelings of the sheltered, over-educated, white, middle class media professional “producing” the story. As Ira explains in every episode, “Each week of course we choose a theme and bring you different kinds of stories on that theme, subsequently ditching the story in favor of our emotional reactions and miscellaneous ...
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