May 2011
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Always forget how great this song is. Those...
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Song parody concept
Free for the taking: “I Think I Need A New Heart” becomes “I Think I Need A Newhart.” God, I’m brilliant.
Dreams of Davey
I keep having dreams about my high school orchestra director stopping rehearsals to berate me in front of everyone. In the one I had last night, he yelled at me for being late to rehearsal because I was “too busy looking at British Mapquest and getting a fountain drink from the mall,” which, I have to hand it to him, was exactly what I had been doing.
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This oral history of the making of Badlands, from GQ, is a really excellent read. Especially the part where the guy says, “It would be like calling Fellini and saying, “Hey, Fred, I think she should have bigger tits.”“
Thrilling occasions
The Music Box Theatre’s Summer Calendar for 2011 came out today. A wealth of riches, be still my heart, and all the other standard clichés apply.
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WatchDee Dee Warwick (sister of Dionne Warwick and cousin of Whitney Houston) singing “You’re No Good,” from 1963. So much better than Linda Ronstadt’s version, although that maybe goes without saying.
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Cornelius Cardew's 'Treatise'
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‘Treatise’ (Comp. Cornelius Cardew, Arr. New Music Ensemble) by Samuel Hertz
Beloit College’s New Music Ensemble performing selections from Cornelius Cardew’s graphic score, ‘Treatise.’
Sam Hertz: Prepared Piano, Amplified Double Bass + Electronics, Oscillators
Hanna Brown: Amplified Cello, Voice
Kate Hermanns: Percussion
Tyler McGaughey: Organ
Shane Donnelly:...
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E.B. White; April 14, 1971
“Your librarian has asked me to write, telling you what a library can mean to you. A library is many things. It’s a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It’s a place to go if you want to sit and think. But particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books. If you want to find out about something, the...
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“We now live in a world without Surprising Fiddlers and are perhaps a bit worse for it.”
- the always astute Dave Kehr, in this week’s NY Times DVD review column.
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Strange and terrible dreams last night: 1. that my dog was dead; and 2. that, through some tectonic madness, California had folded over on top of Texas and living there was like living in a cave, with the now-upside-down California as a dripping cave ceiling and Texas as the cave floor.
