Jessica Duchen Finally Gets Il Trovatore
Any explanation that includes YouTube clips of the Marx Brothers and Maria Callas is jake by me.
Wes Phillips
Do Proteins and Nucleic Acids Sing to One Another?
If molecular interactions are electrical, doesn't it follow that dynamic electromagnetic field interactions are caused by electromagnetic resonance rather than through random collisions?
Hearts On Our Sleeves
Sean O'Hagan makes some mix tapes and laments the lost art of the sleeve note.
Learn Guitar the E-Z Way
Leon Bambrick's guitar tutorial eliminates all the boring parts. You don't even learn to tune until lesson five—and then it goes like this:
"Buy a tuner and ask your girlfriend to learn how to use it. If you can't afford either of these then ask either a roadie or the band playing after you to tune the guitar for you."
"Buy a tuner and ask your girlfriend to learn how to use it. If you can't afford either of these then ask either a roadie or the band playing after you to tune the guitar for you."
The Real Underground
Regular readers of this here blog may wonder why I've linked so many times to maps of the London Underground. I've always loved the clean design of Harry Beck's 1933 map because it looks so much like a circuit diagram and conveys complex three-dimensional information so clearly in 2D.
Gods of New York
Ada Calhoun writes about the summer she swanned around New York under the influence of Neil Gaiman's Sandman.
The Lost Legion?
It reads like the plot of an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel: 145 Roman soldiers survive the death of their general, Marcus Crassus, and, as mercenaries, fight their way across the ancient world, winding up in China.
Loving Molly
You either loved Molly Ivins—well, I should probably just stop there. If you loved the written word and valued wit as much as spleen, you just did love Molly. I'll miss her.
Dialogs
At On an Overgrown Path, blogger Pliable ruminates on the Order of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and the glorious music the order has inspired.
There's Poulenc's searing, glorious opera, of course, but did you know the sisters commissioned a piece by Handel?
There's Poulenc's searing, glorious opera, of course, but did you know the sisters commissioned a piece by Handel?
It's An Old Joke
But the classics never stale.