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I need to dust off my alto and baritone saxes. But I'll probably just start listening to more Sonic Youth and Captain Beefheart.
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Turning it 90° in either direction ought to do it, MG, or, perhaps, 2 Pollocks are better than one?
That's what I did. I rotated it and then copied and pasted parts of it to fill in the gaps that showed up around it. Now it's a Pollock collage.
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Big British Binge! Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson, Beatles, more Beatles, Simple Minds (Scottish, actually), Nick Lowe...
And that's it for the year - I hope.
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I've had the same one for years. Jackson Pollock's Full Fathom Five
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Anybody else have this toy as a kid?
If it said "Evel Knievel" on the box, I had it. In fact, my first public performance art piece Evel Knievel's Skycycle Jumps Over the Pile of Flaming Stuff in the Garage Floor was a great success. That's is if you define "great success" as me getting beaten in shifts by both parents.
Evel Knievel: the inspiration for millions of broken wrists, collarbones and the occasional coccyx.
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HB and sorry we didn't linc up in AA.
There's always 2008!
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Thanks everyone! Having Thanksgiving fall on the 22nd made me forget about my birthday coming up. Pumpkin pie's just as good as birthday cake anyway.
As always, I have to say that Organissimo is my favorite virtual hangout in the world. Good people, good conversation, and good leads on what Mosaic set to buy next. Whenever I set up a new computer at work or wherever, this is the one of the first sites I bookmark. Unfortunately one of the IT guys reported that I was spending too much company time on a site called "Orgasmo" but the boss is a jazz fan and it was all cool.
Thanks again, everyone.
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I bought the 4-song Talk Talk EP in college, then got The Party's Over for Christmas. Saw Talk Talk open for Elvis Costello on his Imperial Bedroom tour at the Fox Theater in Atlanta. They were good, but it wasn't Talk Talk's audience.
For whatever reason I've been repurchasing my college-era music in CD form. Just ordered The Party's Over and the greatest hits collection last weekend. Other than the hits, I lost track of them after The Party's Over so I'm looking forward to hearing their more adventurous stuff.
And now the search turns to Heaven 17...
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I flew back to ATL from Edgefest Sunday morning and the flight flew low over Lake Lanier (never been on a flight that did that before). It looks even scarier - and emptier - from the air. I think the hot Christmas gift this year will be gift baskets of bottled water. I haven't washed my car this year or watered my lawn in the past 15 years. Meanwhile in my part of town (Alpharetta), houses (and the occasional swimming pool) are still sprouting like mushrooms.
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No one has mentioned some of the earlier acts so I'll bring them up.
Paradox Trio was absolutely outstanding. And there was an added bonus when Rufus Cappadocia called a friend to the stage. I don't remember his name but he played the kora (shown here) and he and the band did some improvising. And for the encore, Seido Salifoski (whose kit consisted of a dumbek, a couple of small cymbals and some shells-on-a-string) took the most exciting solo of the week. It was an exciting set.
BassDrumBone also played a great set with Gerry Hemingway stealing the show. BassDrumBone was also involved in a residency program where they conducted workshops with various school bands.
I liked the Larry Ochs/Okkyung Lee/Miya Masaoka set, but IMHO the sax didn't add much to the ensemble's sound. But the interplay between the koto and the cello was really good. Back at the Microtel after the show I saw Miya Masaoka & Okkyung Lee struggling to get the koto through the hotel's doors. That's a lot of koto. I offered to help but they had it it under control.
One set that I really enjoyed was Gutbucket. If the Mitchell/Lewis/Abrams trio epitomized maturity and dignity, Gutbucket was the embodiment of youthful exuberance, kind of a skate-punk/Naked City vibe. A very fun way to end the festival.
Now that I think of it, my favorite acts were the ones with a bit of humor in them: Paradox Trio, BassDrumBone, Gutbucket, Rudresh Mahanthappa and even Konk Pack (weird wild stuff). It was a great festival this year and I'm already looking forward to Edgefest 2008.
Added after Allen Lowe's comments: Yes, I think the Gutbucket sound would get old after a while, but for a short set at the end of an exhausting day (5 concerts in 4 different venues), it was a fun way to let everyone celebrate the end of a wonderful festival. And I also expected the sax player to bust his mouthpiece (he didn't) or to get tangled up in his mic cable (he nearly did).
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Still, the invention of the 12-tone system was arguably the most audacious and influential development in 20th-century music. Its impact can be heard today in works far removed from the knotty scores of composers like Milton Babbitt, Pierre Boulez, Charles Wuorinen and its other formidable practitioners during its heyday in the third quarter of the last century. Elements of 12-tone style turn up even in Broadway shows and film scores.
"Bump bump BUMP...ba dump bump BUMP"
Dude, you're totally reading my mind...
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Edgefest this Wednesday! Whooooo!
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"Bump bump BUMP...
Ba dump bump BUMP--"
You said it. I finally got to listen to the whole soundtrack. If I didn't already know that the movie was about a train, I'd have guessed it from the music. Now I gotta rent the movie...
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You nailed it. When I started reading the quote I was riding a swelling wave of buttermilk goodness and then SPLAT! Biscuit hits the floor butter-side down. Now I'm disappointed. And hungry.
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If you enjoy Herrmann's music you should read his biography "A Heart at Fire's Center" found here. It really is a history of film music and is a fascinating read.
Here's a review I did of it on Amazon.com:
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
A very detailed look at an infuriating composer., March 24, 2000
By Douglas T Martin (Alpharetta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann (Hardcover)
The story of Bernard Herrmann does not begin and end with Hitchcock. It actually begins with Charles Ives and ends with Martin Scorcese. Along the way Orson Welles, Francios Trouffet, Brian DePalma, Sinbad, Gulliver, Rod Serling, and the "It's Alive" baby turn up. A biography of Bernard Herrmann tells the history of the use of music in radio, television, and film. It also tells the story of a brilliant, infuriating, and ultimately tragic figure. If you have an interest in film composing - real composing, not gathering 10 pop songs on a CD and calling it a soundtrack - you owe it to yourself to read this biography. And better yet would be to listen to some of his music while reading - the book vividly describes the music but hearing is believing.
He also wrote some good classical music such as his symphony and some chamber music.
On another note, I just got a copy of David Shire's soundtrack to Taking Pelham One Two Three which is an unholy mixture of Shaft and Schoenberg. Really. Big band horns playing 12-tone charts over a funk rhythm section. Far out stuff.
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Thanks for posting this. I love me some Joy Division - but only on cold bleak days. For an interesting (and probably greatly embellished) look at the band and Factory Records check out the movie 24 Hour Party People that is referenced in the articles.
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Mozart’s lighthearted opera The Abduction from the Seraglio does not call for a prostitute’s nipples to be sliced off and presented to the lead soprano.
So all of the work I've done on my opera-in-progress, Titty Twister: The Further Adventures of Alban Berg's "Lulu", has been for naught?
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I think the trick is to place it right next to another potato and periodicall tap them while they are cooking.
Only tap if one of the potatos has a wide stance.
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The article in the first post mentions this guy's "porn stash."
Porn stash?
or was it "porn 'stache"?
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They're going to play "4:33" at his funeral.
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I hope to be there for the whole deal. If it completely sucks, I still win.
I'm not sure about that. If the shows are completely boring or even excruciating, and you guys are $60 plus the traveling expenses out, I'm not sure if there is any plausible sense in which you guys "win"!
Just $60? I'm flying up from Atlanta and kicking in some extra $$$ to be ringside for all of the shows at the festival! It had better be good!
The following weekend, I'm flying out to the Grand Canyon. Maybe a few extra $$$ to the guide will get me ringside for that as well...
Edit: Also excited about BassDrumBone since I passed on seeing the Gerry Hemingway Quartet in Atlanta the one (and only) time they played there about 10 years ago.
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Lottery mania has (had) taken over my office. Everyone from the president down is in the pool and whenever tickets pay off, the dividends are used to buy more tickets. It's a fledgling company version of a 401K. Now it looks like we've been Enron'd.
The only reason I played was because if the pool won, I'd be the only one coming to work. Or the only one looking for a job after the company closed.
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What's the name of the Smiths song that goes:
"Just shut your mouth/......(forgot the lyrics)..../I am human and I need to be loved/Just like anyone"
Come to think of it, that could pretty much be ANY Smiths song, but I always liked the beat of that particular one.
How Soon Is Now
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penis or no penis, W. sure has a lot of synthesizers
Surprisingly enough, Columbia Records is using that same quote to promote the 40th anniversary release of Switched-On Bach next year.
I keed, I keed.
WINTER IS HERE !!
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I'm about ready to start up the air conditioner today. ATL only has two seasons: summer and that small period of about 2 months when it is not summer.
/In my day we had four seasons whether wanted to or not!