7/4

Psychic powers.

It's probably not. He never goes away. I had to block him on Facebook a few years ago, because he was harassing me online.

a bitter old man with a bad attitude.

Yeah, I heard about that...David Lee Roth's Uncle, owner of the Cafe Wah? in the Village. Time for another new VH album!

Puss n Boots is some twangy country. They're even singing some Neil Young.

yeah, sure. The power of Norah......I'll have to listen to this album in the morning.

I can accept Norah Jones and her music....I have other more important shit to get upset about. Sheesh.

When I read it, I thought Sonny was chronically depressed and cause for alarm.

Most scurrilous, unfunny New Yorker “humor” re jazz August 2, 2014 by Howard Mandel "I’m aghast at The New Yorker’s rip-off of Sonny Rollins’ good name and great heart to slag jazz in the guise of “humor.” A Daily Shouts piece, bylined “Django Gold” (surely a pseudonym) purports to be “Sonny Rollins: In His Own Words” and controverts the very essence of the art form this grand hero has embodied for more than half a century – without raising a chuckle (at least from me). See for yourself – then write the editor a letter saying “This ain’t funny.” Not that jazz is sacrosanct, but this ain’t funny."

Cash

How do you know what Nora Jones is trying to do?

Satire, we think.

I think it pretty disturbing. A friend suggested that's Woody Allen's writing.

Some people don't actually give a hoot if she's singing jazz or not.

One other option, pursued by the OP, is trolling people who do like it. Persecution complex implies a level of sincerity not present here, IMHO. (Not the most original troll, granted...) Or simply make or more complex than it needs to be.

Sounds like the Times was just having a slow news day.

NPR: A Breath Of Inspiration: John Luther Adams' New 'Sila' by ANASTASIA TSIOULCAS July 30, 2014

Washington Post John Luther Adams’s ‘Sila’: New work occupies Lincoln Center plaza By Anne Midgette July 27 "The world premiere of John Luther Adams’s “Sila: The Breath of the World” Friday night at New York’s Lincoln Center had the visual aesthetic of a music video, the vibe of a cultural Happening — some 2,500 people congregated on Hearst Plaza, between the Metropolitan Opera and 65th Street, to watch — and the sound of Richard Wagner as channeled by John Cage. In short, the piece — by the winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Music, a follow-up to his percussion piece “Inuksuit” — spoke in a number of familiar languages to make statements whose outlines are familiar to most cultural consumers but that still, in the classical music world, smack of the new."

A Pulitzer Today, and in May, a New York Premiere By MICHAEL COOPER APRIL 14, 2014 "John Luther Adams, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music on Monday for his work “Become Ocean,” has a special reason to look forward to its New York premiere next month at Carnegie Hall: he has yet to hear it performed live." A Composer Attuned to the Earth’s Swirling Motion A New York Premiere for John Luther Adams’s ‘Become Ocean’ WQXR: John Luther Adams’s Become Ocean Wins Pulitzer Prize for Music WQXR: On-Demand Audio: John Luther Adams's Become Ocean Live at Carnegie Hall Sloshing in Symphonic Waters A New Work by John Luther Adams Debuts at Lincoln Center By ANTHONY TOMMASINI JULY 27, 2014

Schoenberg always pissed me off. Every time I'd play a gig, he'd swear up and down that he'd bring a bunch of friends, then he'd usually never show up. If he'd show up at all, he'd be intoxicated and babbling about Danish furniture.

You can check your connection speed with http://www.speedtest.net/. When I got the upgrade it doubled in speed from about 35 Mbps to somewhere between 75-90 Mbps. For some reason, my laptop clocks in at 120+Mbps when it's plugged in. My desktop machine must have a lot of malware hogging bandwidth. BTW: test it muitiple times for a number. I get different results at different times. example:

I've been using Comcast about 16-17 years. My TV cable box and my internet cable modem are two different boxes. I haven't needed any tech help from them in years. Service started out real bad, but at some point, they rewired the building. I cut off the land lines (aka internet phones, VoIP) last Winter to save a few bucks. I know it sucks to deal with them.

Interesting. The wifi router is in the same box as the cable modem and the phone jack, all supplied by Comcast. Costco often offers a Motorola cable modem that claims better performance, but I can't use it because it doesn't have a phone jack. My box is not near a halogen light, but it is near a florescent light; I wonder whether there's a connection there. Sounds like you have the same modem they gave me last month. It says the model is technicolor 105+. Four ethernet ports and wifi. They sent me one last month. If you're having problems with your devices, ask them to swap the modem. If you're still having problems, suggest that it's a line problem.

Sounds like it could be your ISP.

Yeah, no. That's why the concept that musicians have any less time to spend on the internet than we do is a huge fallacy. They are human just like the rest of us. WTF would I know about being a musician, eh?