Tall Tale Postcards
When I traveled through Wisconsin in the '70s, you could still buy these for a quarter at junk shops around the state. Sure wish I'd taken advantage of the opportunity—as if we needed more <I>stuff</I> around here.
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March of the Emperors
This one minute commercial for the French movie channel Canal+ nearly had coffee spurting out my nose.
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Free Music
Website <A HREF="http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2007/01/gardner-podding.html">Ionarts</A> alerts us to "the amazingly successful free podcast of the classical concert series at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum."
Yet Another Sexual Kink I Don't Understand
The definition of "fetish" <I>is</I> "object or part of the body that arouses libidinal impulses—often to the exclusion of genital impulses." Fetishizing that annoying Microsoft Word paperclip, however, goes beyond extreme kink into deeply creepy territory.
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Sandke On Brecker
Over at Doug Ramsey's always worth checking-out <I>Rifftides</I>, Randy Sandke offers a personal remembrance of Michael Brecker. Not your usual hagiography.
Do Listeners Want A Common Musical Language?
Marc Fisher wonders if sharing the hit record experience is possible in the age of iPod.
Bring Back the Neanderthal
Stephen Strauss argues that we can only really know our nearest relatives by creating cloned reincarnations.
This Just In
Mystery of Napoleon's death laid to rest?
Moving. Who Doesn't Love It?
Moving. Who Doesn’t Love It?
So <I>Stereophile</I> has once again moved, fortunately only three floors down in the same building this time out.
Best DVD Commentaries
Now that I don't review DVDs professionally, I almost never watch the commentary tracks. Like most folks, I feel I could use that time watching a movie I've never seen before—yet, a few (a very small few) of 'em are interesting or amusing. I think my favorite was Randy Newman's commentary for <I>Pleasantville</I>, which came off as an insider's view of the Hollywood scoring community (his uncles Lionel and Alfred were both film composers).