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Hendrix and Huckleberry—heavy party animals!
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We Are Not Amused
Queen Bagheera reigns on my parade.
Better Brel
Les Edelberg writes: "First, wanted to thank you for the Jacques Brel link yesterday. He's always been one of my favorites and I still listen to my original vinyl copy regularly. I think this clip is even more powerful than the one you posted Monday."
Esquire Wants You to Die
Whether it does or not, you know you're going to. Eskie lists 60 things worth shortening your life for. I must be boring—only about 10 appealed to me, although I did find #s 38 & 39 intriguing.
Every Back Issue Available
An otherwise quiet afternoon is given an asterisk, a big fat exclamation point, by our sale of <a href="http://ssl.blueearth.net/primedia/product.php?productid=53&cat=0&page=1… BACK ISSUE AVAILABLE</a>.
Hidden Perils of Opera Singing
Via the <I>OC Register</I>'s Tim Magnan. File this under "too much information." Also, keep out of the front rows.
Does Will Friedwald Have the Largest iTunes Library on Earth?
At 200,000 tracks, maybe so—but it only occupies 800GB, so he's using compression. My meager 12,000 track library eats a little over 200GB, using ALC.
Quantum Mechanics Just Got Even Stranger
Is that even possible?
Woo Hoo Houdini!
<I>The Smithsonian</I> has a nifty slideshow on Harry Houdini. It's mostly posters, but the action shots are worth checking out.
Drinking Games with the King of Beans
I discovered Erik Satie while in college. The music seemed perfectly fit for such strange and brightly-colored cartoon mornings, rainy afternoons, very sad and lonely drunken nights. Perfectly fit for a dude who felt out of time with himself, a mishmash of incomplete angles and ideas, a dance party, a moonlit walk along a muddy trail, a stranger, a desperate fuck.