Via Marvin over at New Sophists’ Almanac, here’s a bit of news that brings me joy, about the finding of a lost 1957 recording of a Carnegie Hall show performed by Trane and Monk from that mysterious time when they were playing in a band together. I feel like having a party. You can listen to a few tracks at the above NPR link, too! (It’s what I’m doing as I post this, of course.) The photo above is by Don Schlitten.
Month: October 2005
A Riff on Woody Allen Groucho Marx as Quoted By Woody Allen
Didn’t Woody Allen say something to the effect that he had severe misgivings about joining any club that would have him for a member? Well, I’ve got a different take on that. Frankly, I look around and I have misgivings about joining any club that would take certain other people as members. And yes, I know, that’s judgmental. Sorry, but everyone’s judgmental in certain departments. Everyone judges a convicted rapist, for example, or a guy who deals crack to teenagers and gets busted for it. Everyone acknowledges that there are criteria which, within a given culture, such as Western culture, …
CahootsMagazine.com Is Live
For a few weeks I’ve been working pretty close to constantly on this website I’m building for a couple of friends in Saskatoon who’ll be launching an alternative womens’ magazine called Cahoots. Well, after much painstaking work, backtracking, studying up on php, and even begging for help from a Canadian woman named Mary, the CahootsMagazine.com website is finally live. The site is powered by WordPress, and is using the Wuhan theme (which, yes, I know means that we have to contribute money to WordPress; it’s on the editor’s list of stuff to do). And it’s almost completely done, by gob. …
My Jeonju Sori Festival Writeup
I recently mentioned the Jeonju Sori Festival and how much I was enjoying it, and how I wanted to write about it, but had been asked to write a piece for translation and inclusion in a Korean magazine. I decided to simply write the magazine piece and post it here — for the time being, unless maybe I can submit it somewhere else — in one shot. Some of the people who attended the festival this year had some pretty negative things to say about it, and I can understand some of their disappointments — although the complaints tended to …
Marry, F—, Kill
I don’t have much to add to this discussion that I happened upon earlier this year, except to say (a) Wow, and (b) the reason horror movies suck is because nobody with this kind of imagination is writing them.