7/4

I thought it was a wild rumor.

looks humid.

I really like those thong straps. Makes me happy.

This is on WNYC2, the web only broadcast. I'm just tuning in now.

I'm just getting my feet wet.

That's going too far.

I've been putting this off too. I have them now.

Oh...I thought maybe a new reissue would have extra tracks. Darn. Yes, I was hoping for some stripped down arrangements, some early acoustic demos recorded in the hallway at the convent. and some sleep overs with pillow fights.

Oh...I thought maybe a new reissue would have extra tracks. Darn.

Is that a remaster or just a reissue?

Scarlet Johannson is a dream come true. I love Ghost World.

I know, I know. NYC seems to be mostly archival recordings (many of which I heard the first time around!)

oin us for 24:33, as WNYC's weekend overnight host Helga Davis guides us through 24 hours and 33 minutes of John Cage's recorded music, plus rare archival audio of interviews and live performances. Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 12:00PM—1:00PM Cage's Gift: An Unprepared World Meets the Prepared Piano * WNYC's New Sounds (May 2000): Various recordings of the seminal "Sonatas and Interludes." * Americathon at Merkin Hall (Feb 1983): WNYC Mesostic. 1:00PM—2:00PM Cage unCaged: A Cross-section of his Output * WNYC Archives: Summerstage (July 1992): Joan La Barbara sings "A Flower" * John Cage performs "Dance" at the prepared piano. * "Indeterminancy: Part 3" (John Cage, speech and David Tudor, music) * "Jazz Study" * "In a Landscape" * "Suite for Toy Piano" 2:00PM—3:00PM 1992: The Final Moments, 1992 * WNYC's Around New York (July 1992): John Schaefer interviews John Cage and pianist Michael Torre. * WNYC Archives: Summerstage (July 1992): Joan La Barbara sings "Forever and Sunsmell"; "The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs," and "Nowth upon Nacht" 3:00PM—4:00PM Noise vs. Sound * The MTT Files: Noise vs. Sound and the Legacy of John Cage * "First Construction" (in Metal) * "Second Construction" * Wall-to-Wall John Cage at Symphony Space (March 1982): "Third Construction" * "She is Asleep" 4:00PM—5:00PM The Magic of Four * "Four2," for 4-part voices * "Four5," for saxophone ensemble * "Four3" for piano(s), rainsticks, and violin/oscillator 5:00PM—6:00PM Operation Opera: John Cage and Leonard Lopate * New York & Company (July 1988): Leonard Lopate talks with John Cage. 6:00PM—7:00PM Kaleidoscope Cage: Short Works * Featuring "Solo for Voice 1"; "4 Solos for Voice"; "Ear for EAR"; "A Room"; "Ad Lib"; "Triple-Paced No.1"; "Triple-Paced No.2," and "Chess Pieces" 7:00PM—8:00PM Tim Page and John Cage * Excerpted from the seminal Meet the Composer series 8:00PM—11:00PM cAgeless Classics * Interviews and Tributes: Merce Cunningham, choreographer Margaret Leng Tan, pianist Joan La Barbara, singer Meredith Monk, composer Robert Spano, conductor (from WNYC's American Music Festival, May 2007) * Vocal Music and Vocalizations: WNYC's New Sounds Live (November 1991): Benefit Concert for EAR Magazine with John Cage: "Haikus" WNYC Archives: Summerstage (July 1992): Joan La Barbara singing "A Flower" and "Sonnekus" "A Chant with Claps" for voice * Music for Prepared Piano: "Tossed as it is Untroubled (Meditation)"; "The Perilous Night"; "Totem Ancestor"; "Our Spring Will Come," and "Spontaneous Earth" * Music for Unprepared Piano: "Dream" * Music for Percussion Ensemble: "Living Room Music"; "Double Music" (with Lou Harrison), and "Imaginary Landscape No. 2" * Music for Chamber Ensemble: WNYC Archives: Arditti String Quartet at the Kaufman Cultural Center (February 1992): "String Quartet in 4 Parts" "6 Short Inventions for Seven Instruments" "Sonata for 2 Voices" 11:00PM—12:00MID The Radical Simplicity of John Cage * New Sounds (Sept 2005): "The Radical Simplicity of John Cage" (featuring "In a Landscape" and "Dream") Thursday, September 6th, 2007 12:00AM—2:30AM† Expansion of the Sound Universe * Back-to-back versions of "Credo in Us," from Wall-to-Wall John Cage at Symphony Space (March 1982) and from the WNYC Archives: Americathon at Merkin Hall (Feb 1983) * "Music for Carillon No. 1" * "Williams Mix" * Concerto for Piano and Orchestra * "Europeras 4" * "Hymns and Variations" for amplified voices 2:30AM—4:00AM† Roaratorio and James Joyce * "Laughtears": Klaus Schöning interviews John Cage * "Roaratorio, an Irish Circus on Finnegan's Wake: Part 1" * "Reading Through Finnegan's Wake: Parts 3 & 4" 4:00AM—5:00AM† The Unearthed John Cage Concerts: Strings, Conch Shells and Fire * WNYC Archives: Rockland Country Performance with John Cage (ca. 1955): 34'46.776" * Wall-to-Wall John Cage at Symphony Space(March 1982): "Inlets" 5:00AM—6:00AM Chamber Ensemblance * "Six" * "Five" * "Fourteen" 6:00AM—7:00AM Prepared Piano Revisited and John Cage Speaks * WNYC's Soundcheck (July 2002): : Prepared Piano with veteran Cage proponent Margaret Leng Tan * "Composition in Retrospect," read by John Cage 7:00AM—8:00AM The Other MusiCircuses * "Apartment House 1776," mixed-media event * Reprise of back-to-back versions of "Credo in Us," from Wall-to-Wall John Cage at Symphony Space (March 1982) and from the WNYC Archives: Americathon at Merkin Hall (Feb 1983) 8:00AM—9:00AM The Voice of John Cage * Cologne/New York New Music/Neue Musik Marathon with John Schaefer (1989 at The Kitchen): "What You Say," with John Cage, speaker * John Cage and Morton Feldman in Conversation (1966-1967 on WBAI Radio in New York) * "Series re Morris Graves" with John Cage, speaker (Introduction and Excerpt) * "Indeterminancy: Part 4" (John Cage, speech and David Tudor, music) 9:00AM—10:00AM Playful Moments of Collage and Caprice * WNYC Archives: Summerstage (July 1992): reprise of Joan La Barbara singing "Sonnekus2" * "Daughters of the Lonesome Isle" * "6 Melodies for Violin and Keyboard" 10:00AM—11:00AM In Search of Lost Sounds: John Cage Remembered * WNYC's Soundcheck (Sept 2002): "Remembering John Cage" * "Fads and Fancies in the Academy" 11:00AM—12:00PM The Final Performance * WNYC Archives: WNYC Summerstage (July 1992): Joan La Barbara sings; John Cage's last public performance in "Four6" * "The City Wears a Slouch Hat" (a radio play): Excerpts 12:00PM—12:33PM Cage Clipped: The Many Faces of the Class Clown and Great Patriarch * "24:33, A John Cage Festival": Interviews and Tributes

They're playing Cage on WPRB right now, but I know it's not the whole program. 8:30-11am. And then there's: 24 Hours and 33 Minutes The Playful and Playable Cage: A WNYC Festival Airs September 5 at noon until September 6 at 12:33PM on WNYC2

But, but...he said nice things about me. Because I got paid?

One aspect of buying is curiosity. That's why some disks don't get a second listen. I'm on a bit of a budget these days, so I stopped buying for a few months. Except for some Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett I bought today, I've been listening to my collection. I haven't really missed all the buying. I was joking about the 12 step program, I don't think we buy music because we're angry or scared of the future.

It wouldn't stop WKCR anytime of the day.

But I can't listen to their internet radio!

I'm careful about what I play for other people. I do have friends who listen to my music, but with one exception, they don't live around here.

September 4, 2007 Study Affirms Rocks Stars Do Die Younger By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 3:19 p.m. ET LONDON (AP) -- Living fast and dying young has long been part of rock 'n' roll lore. And now there are statistics that affirm the image, according to a study released Tuesday. Researchers at Liverpool John Moores University, whose report appeared in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, studied a sample of North American and British rock and pop stars and concluded they are more than twice as likely to die a premature death as ordinary citizens of the same age. The team studied 1,064 stars from the rock, punk, rap, R&B, electronic and new age genres in the ''All Time Top 1,000'' albums published in 2000. They compared each artist's age at death with that of European and U.S. citizens of similar backgrounds, sex and ethnicity. Mark Bellis, leader of the study, said his research showed the stereotype of rock stars was true -- recreational drugs and alcohol-fueled parties take a toll. The report found that, between two and 25 years after the onset of fame, the risk of death was two to three times higher for music stars than for members of the general population matched for age, sex, nationality and ethnic background. In all, 100 of the stars studied had died -- 7.3 percent of women and 9.6 percent of men. They included Elvis Presley, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. The average age of death was 42 for North American stars and 35 for European stars. Long-term drug or alcohol problems accounted for more than one in four of the deaths, the study found. The first years of success are the most dangerous, with both British and American musicians three times more likely to die than the average person during that time. While the music world is not only filled but also fueled these days by aging music stars -- Paul McCartney, Willie Nelson, the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan among them -- industry observers were not surprised by the findings. ''Being a pop star is a crash-and-burn sort of lifestyle,'' said rock journalist and broadcaster John Aizlewood. ''If you go into it, you want adulation. You want to respond to the crowd. You can't be a pop star in isolation. If you need that adulation, you obviously have other needs. ''It was ever thus. If you look back to Victorian times -- Byron, Shelley those kind of people -- being creative requires living on the edge in a way that being in insurance doesn't.'' Dr. Tim Williams, a psychiatrist specializing in addiction at the University of Bristol, also said the increased mortality might be a byproduct of the artistic personality. ''You could argue that rock stars and pop stars have a sensation-seeking personality, that they have this desire to put themselves in these terrifying situations -- performing in front of a large group of people -- that also makes them vulnerable to dependence on substances, which markedly increases mortality,'' he said. In good news for aging rockers, the study found that after 25 years of fame, stars' death rates began to return to normal -- at least in Europe. A European star still living 25 years after achieving fame faces a similar mortality rate to the European public. U.S. artists, however, continue to die in greater numbers. The study said this difference ''might be explained by differences in longer-term experience of fame, with more performing in later years ... continued media interest and associated stress and substance use in North American pop stars.'' Additionally, said Bellis, ''Many (U.S. musicians) die in poverty and there is not the same type of public-health provision there'' as in Europe. ''The music business would do well to take the health risks of substance abuse and risk-taking behaviors more seriously,'' wrote Bellis, the lead author of the study. ''This is not only because of the long-term effects on the stars themselves, but also because of the influence these stars exert on others.'' Dr. Francis Keaney, an expert in addiction treatment at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London, said the death rates are likely to fall in the future. ''People are better educated about drug and alcohol abuse than they were in the past,'' Keaney said. ''Thirty years ago, you could name dozens of people living hedonistic lifestyles in the music industry. Today there are far fewer.'' No kidding.

Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (40th Anv., 2 cd, mono/sereo version) Syd Barrett - Barrett Syd Barrett - the Madcap Laughs

So is it a 12 step situation?

I have a ton of unlistend to DaD shows, but I've really eased off on how many shows I download.

akh...you guys are no fun.