Whatever that means. I am happy to report, however, that tonight I’ve returned from Seoul with a great deal of my mission acocmplished. After about 6 hours in the studio (I miscalculated it earlier) it looks like I got all the tenor sax tracks for the new Dabang album recorded. In fact, aside from a voice track and a soprano line on one track, plus one sound effect to be applied on another track, I think I got seven of the eleven tracks completely done. Which, let me tell you, makes me proud. We only had to cheat once all …
Month: May 2004
New sophistry…
The latest installment in my ongoing discussion of art and aesthetics with Marvin over at New Sophists’ Almanac is now online. IT touches on jazz, hip-hop, evaluating the validity of an art form, what constitutes a “world art form”, and also a suggested experiment regarding the way we look at and evaluate art. Go have a look.
Francis Fukuyama Interview
An interesting interview with Francis Fukuyama. Not sure what I think of this guy, still.
Fucking Kim Jong Il And His Thugs
Corsair the Rational Pirate gets it right in this post about how ridiculous North Korea’s treatment of DMZ permeability is. They will open the gate to let a convoy of cows through, but not to take medicines and supplies up north in the wake of the enormous explosion that happened recently. They’re gonna talk about it tomorrow. Tomorrow. As Corsair quite rightly writes: Bastards! Bad-hair, your-mother-dressed-you-funny, slope-headed, IQ-less bastards. So worried about their stupid little country but not concerned in the least for the people in that insane asylum. We can only hope that KJI picked up the AIDS or …
Tonight
Besides a one-and-a-half hour practice session with the latest minidisc copy of what we’ve got recorded at the studio, tonight I met with Lime. She’s busy tomorrow night, though tomorrow’s a holiday all day for me… perhaps that’s a good thing, though, since I need to get a lot of practice in tomorrow: I head to the studio in Seoul, with Thai, on Wednesday, and have vague and faint hopes of finishing all my recording in one day, though I doubt it’s possible and won’t rush it. But it was good to see Lime again. We talked about my growing …