Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-29
the hole in my soul has been temporarily filled http://bit.ly/bxi7hg # every time i think we have moved past the new music scene's sense of entitlement, elitism and snobbery i am brutally proved wrong # My Top 3 Weekly #lastfm artists: Kings of Leon (3), ambienteer (3) and Paul Bailey (2) #mm http://bit.ly/aTA338 # looking [...]
Bookmarks from August 22nd through August 29th 2010
“Not to mention that the undialectical shelving of alt-classical “between” pop music and classical music misses, as I think its leading lights would agree, the point: One respect in which alt-classical music most definitely is contemporary music is that its creators insist on it. Corey Dargel could very easily bill himself as a songwriter, period, [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-22
on way home from big sur. last night old rasputin & beer batter salmon. today pulled pork & slaw in santa maria http://twitpic.com/2f4tg3 # home! avoided most traffic by taking back way thru santa barbara, but wasn't so lucky in ventura/oxnard. still nice to have a break #fb # My Top 3 Weekly #lastfm artists: [...]
Bookmarks from August 16th through August 22nd 2010
“And then it’s time for the Cosmic Flip concept that my long lost friend Heriberto was fond of discussing : maybe the lack of importance makes it super important. I won’t delve into this serious filosophizing, but it was something to that effect. In any case, I think I’ve done my small part in describing [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-15
2nd teaching gig confirmed for fall. I'm officially underemployed. yeah! (looking forward to eventually having a more permanent job) # summer mixing almost done and embedding html5 audio into website (making it iPhone/iPad friendly) & looking forward big sur getaway #fb # oh wordpress.org you really make me earn every bit of the DIY cred, [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-08
@dbtoub it feels like it’s been encased in amber and covered with red, white, and blue bunting in reply to dbtoub # had a great time making music with @jkkeller today. our pieces worked well with guitar & electronics (with a little trombone for flavor) #fb # @dbtoub to be fair all those pieces are [...]
Bookmarks from August 2nd through August 8th 2010
“Those common elements are even more noticeable — and funny — in this fan-made YouTube trailer for Paprika’s Inception. In this clever mash-up, Paprika’s images are matched with the Inception soundtrack and voice-over narration. The level of synchronicity between the two is pretty amazing. I’ve never heard Nolan talk about Paprika, and there are certainly [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-01
WikiLeaks Drops 90,000 War Docs; Fingers Pakistan as Insurgent Ally http://bit.ly/aI3HKZ #WiredTopStories # My Top 3 Weekly #lastfm artists: Michael Nyman (4), Pixies (3) and Nine Inch Nails (2) #mm http://bit.ly/aTA338 # learned how to make an Italian cream soda tonight. very refreshing and strangely reminds me of boba #fb # @mikecrain CW says that [...]
Bookmarks from July 26th through August 1st
“Actually, the budget issues facing LA and the State aren’t all that different than the “crisis” brewing here. As part of its “austerity” efforts the government is pushing hard for a radical restructuring of the Danish workforce. They want to push the maximum work week 37 to 38 hours. Can you imagine? 38 hours! To [...]
Bookmarks from July 22nd through July 25th
“Among the consequences of financialisation is the creation of what an analysis by the investment bank Citigroup calls “plutonomy”. The bank’s analysts describe a world that is dividing into two blocs: the plutonomy and the rest. The US, UK and Canada are the key plutonomies: economies in which growth is powered by – and largely [...]
Bookmarks from July 12th through July 19th
“What went wrong here?” is an unpopular question with the type of city fathers and civic boosters for whom convention centers and pedestrian malls are the answers to all society’s ills but Harvey captured and chronicled every day what was–and will always be–beautiful about Cleveland: the still majestic gorgeousness of what once was–the uniquely quirky charm of what remains, the delightfully offbeat attitude of those who struggle to go on in a city they love and would never dream of leaving. What a two minute overview might depict as a dying, post-industrial town, Harvey celebrated as a living, breathing, richly textured society.”
link: Anthony Bourdain’s Blog
Video by Satan’s Pearl Horses http://satanspearlhorses.com/
Featuring Matt Marks and Mellissa Hughes
More info here: http://thelittledeathvol1.com/The Little Death: Vol. 1
by Matt Marks Directed by Rafael Gallegos
July 8-11, 14-17 2010
Incubator Arts Project http://incubatorarts.org
“So to me it seems that in banning the word classical we need to have some kind of agreement as to what we think it is we do that we wish to describe differently. “Classical“ clearly fails in 2010 as an a term of aggregation. “Classical” succeeds in maintaining a now elderly participant base for concert presentation, but fails in nearly other aspect of differentiation. Is there a coherent (though divergent) ‘classical’ music practice that could be better described with a single other word/phrase? Or is the suggestion that the discrepant musical discourses and modes of presentation would be better served through the disaggregation that the abandonment of the term classical would afford? These are both deeply philosophical and deeply practical questions.”
link: Ban the word “Classical” « Elissa Milne
“The university police department — about 10 officers and 2 detectives — don’t even know what an IP address is. I even contacted the local FBI office and they said they’re ‘not interested’ in the case despite it now crossing state lines. Am I chasing my own tail here? How can I get someone to pay attention to the fact that all the police need to do is file some RIAA-style paperwork to find the name associated with this IP address and knock on the right door to nab a criminal and recover my property? How can I get my laptop back — and more importantly — stop this criminal in his tracks?”
link: Slashdot Ask Slashdot Story | Retrieving a Stolen Laptop By IP Address Alone?
“Toward the end of our conversation in Birmingham, Donohue began to talk about the challenges of leading an organization. “The CEO in a major company now, if he lasts five years, he’s a hero,” Donohue said. It was clear that he was in part talking about himself. But Donohue has already lasted twelve years as Chamber president, and at the beginning of his tenure the board amended the bylaws to extend the mandatory retirement age past sixty-five. In 2009, he traveled 166 days of the year, coaxing open checkbooks, visiting twenty-seven states, and giving seventy-five speeches. All of this bodes well for his staying power. Still, “I am not powerful,” he said at one point. “The institution is powerful. If I walked out of the Chamber tomorrow, wouldn’t anybody return my phone calls except for a couple of my friends.” Given the anti-corporate rhetoric among Republicans, and the backlash against him in other quarters, this is a contingency he should consider. But for the moment Donohue is still the undisputed master of getting corporate giants to show him the money. And in a Washington that runs on money, that show must go on.”
link: Show Him the Money – James Verini
“I still think that if something is available for sale legitimately, you should pay for it (books, music, photos, movies, sheet music). A lot of the Bach, Scriabin and Rachmaninoff in Mr. Hawley’s collection is certainly available, and handing it to friends on a flash drive is absolutely depriving the publishers of their revenue. True, the composers are long dead, but editing and publishing sheet music is still worth something. It’s those obscure, out-of-print, not-available-anywhere items in his collection that make a tougher case. How many hours are you obligated to research and dig just to find out if something is available for sale? In this case, the barriers to a legitimate purchase are ridiculously high. Isn’t digital piracy justified in that case? Let me know what you think in the comments.”
link: No Easy Answers in the Copyright Debate – Pogue’s Posts Blog – NYTimes.com
“Composition, contemporary composition, is where reviewing comes to life. Complaining about interpreters, or rooting for them, however legitimate, is just fidgeting. Criticism joins the history of its art only when it joins battle, for or against, with the music of its time.” — Virgil Thomson, 1974
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-12
finished making the pesto by hand, next 'the Slavonian Burger' http://instapaper.com/zpisiqi6 #fb # slovakian paprika burger, pesto pasta and corn (cooking on the grill is about as patriotic as I get) http://twitpic.com/22kdsk # My Top 3 Weekly #lastfm artists: The Negro Problem (8), Metric (2) and Alan Morse Davies (2) #mm http://bit.ly/aTA338 # RT @futurestudio: [...]
Bookmarks from July 3rd through July 10th
“For me, what really made this blog so good was the combination of two things: (a) really good writing by Tim about a variety of topics related to classical music (plus the occasional diversion or two). The official reviews that get published in the hard copy version of the paper have always been and will continue to be among the best. The blog went beyond that allowed for all of us to read Tim’s thoughts and comments on things that would not have otherwise appeared in the paper. I hope the new format will allow him some, if not all, of the same freedom. (b) The reader’s comments to the original blog posts which added their own value, and more importantly, Tim’s willingness/ability to write his own follow-up comments in reply. A wonderful dialogue exists between those of us unwashed masses who add our comments and the respected music critic of The Orange County Register. The quality of this two-way communication simply doesn’t exist anywhere else (I stopped readying the comments at Culture Monster blog of the larger “other newspaper” long ago because none of the staff writers ever participated in the discussion).”
link: So long from The Arts Blog – The Arts Blog : The Orange County Register
“Despite the decision to forbid members from receiving pay for AA-related activity, it had no problem letting professional institutions integrate the 12 steps into their treatment programs. AA did not object when Hazelden, a Minnesota facility founded in 1947 as “a sanatorium for curable alcoholics of the professional class,” made the steps the foundation of its treatment model. Nor did AA try to stop the proliferation of steps-centered addiction groups from adopting the Anonymous name: Narcotics Anonymous, Gamblers Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous. No money ever changed hands—the steps essentially served as open source code that anyone was free to build upon, adding whatever features they wished. (Food Addicts Anonymous, for example, requires its members to weigh their meals.)”
link: Secret of AA: After 75 Years, We Don’t Know How It Works | Magazine
“There is, however, a cost to this taciturnity. Limiting our emotional response to the travails fighting men endure is a little bit like limiting war aims; it distances us from the conflict, prevents us from engaging fully, dramatically, suspensefully, in it. Certainly in this instance no one in this beleaguered group becomes fully particularized as a human being. This standoffishness became a ruling convention in films about the Vietnam War. Putting it mildly, our moral qualms about that war prevented everyone this side of John Wayne from unambiguously identifying with our troops. Which left us with a rather squishy humanism—“Oh, the poor guys, it’s not their fault; let’s go levitate the Pentagon, instead”—to tide us along. Because the aims of our wars since have not particularly advanced, that’s pretty much where we remain.”
link: Richard Schickel: Into the Valley of Death Rode the … 15? – Film Review – Truthdig
“These 444 decisions pertain to the adjudication of security clearance cases for contractor personnel under DoD Directive 5220.6, which implements Executive Order 10865.”
link: 2010 Industrial Security Clearance Decisions
“At last, after two hours of his tedious, hacky, right-wing manifesto, Gallagher gets to the part his (willing) hostages have been waiting for. It’s time to smash some shit. There are the watermelons, there is some cottage cheese (“It’s got the curds that blow up, just like on the news!”), there is sauerkraut and syrup and honey. Then Gallagher gets a tin pie plate. He opens a giant can of fruit cocktail and pours it in. He opens a can of some Asian vegetable—water chestnuts, maybe—and pours that in, too. “This is the China people and queers!!!” he screams and takes his sledgehammer to the thing with a fury that is no fun at all. Wet chunks of China people and queers fly everywhere. The hateful, bitter old man laughs. I cannot believe Bill Hicks is dead and this motherfucker is still touring.”
Bookmarks from June 28th through July 3rd
“What makes Piazzolla’s music so emotionally powerful is his infallible sense of harmony. I tell students over and over that the principal problem with most compositions I see is their lack of harmonic coherence. Listening to Piazzolla ought to be a model of how one cannot hope to establish an original musical voice without first having a secure and identifiable harmonic sense. Of course Piazzolla’s harmonic world is largely derived from Bach’s, with smooth, circle-of-fifths progressions moving effortlessly underneath the plangent cantilenas of his melodies. That was his special discovery—a melding of indigenous tango rhythms and melodic tropes with the contrapuntal sophistication of Bach and the edgy brutalism of early Stravinsky and Bartók.”
link: John Adams: Hell Mouth: El Tanguero
“In this Year of the Tiger 2010, there are perhaps as many boba shops filling the L.A. basin as there are intersections to hold them. I imagine container ships stacking up in San Pedro Bay bearing nothing but vacuum-sealed tapioca pearls from the food factories outside Kaohsiung, waiting to dump their payload into robotically-sealed cups of syrupy tea from Santa Monica to Ontario Mills. Taro, the starchy corm (i.e., a modified underground stem, rather than a true bulb), cultivated widely throughout eastern Asia and Oceania, is a personal bubble tea favorite–and a misnomer to boot. Rarely is there any actual tea in taro milk tea, which typically consists of taro powder, flavored and dyed a fetching lavender, sugar syrup and milk or creamer. Little culinary lies aside, I’m on a mission to source L.A.’s best taro milk tea. Below are the first five candidates. Your boba hits and misses are welcome in the comments.”
“They’re going to close you out, at some horrible level, they say, “You didn’t post the margin, we’re going to close you out,” and then what do you do? You’re going to sue them? By the time this thing wends its way through the courts, you’re out of business. And if you’re being foreclosed on by a bank, and you’re in litigation, that massively increases the probability that other banks will do the same thing to you, because they’ll be worried, and you’re caught in this vicious circle. Yeah, so, theoretically, in calm times you would look to the courts for vindication, but in difficult times the damage that’s done may be irreversible before you can get any kind of remedy.”
link: n+1: Bullies and Bankers
“LCK: I can go out on the road. I can make money. I can do what I do in its purest form without asking anybody for permission. You can’t cancel my stand-up tours. It’s impossible. There’s too many separate bosses. There is no “bosses.” I rent these theaters now. When I worked the clubs, it was very different. Pretty much you needed to please the Improvs, but if I get cancelled, I can put together a stand-up tour and go on the road and continue generating. I don’t worry that way anymore. I don’t know what it’s like to be an actor, where if your show gets cancelled, really you’re just a bum. [Laughs.] It must be really awful. You can’t go out and do a little acting, you know what I mean? If I’m not on tour, I can run down to the comedy club and do a little stand-up. If you’re an actor, you can’t go—I guess there’s forms of it.”
link: Louis C.K. | TV | Interview | The A.V. Club
“Dykstra, of course, was never a market genius. When researching our lawsuit against him (he eventually agreed to pay $200,000—but later defaulted), I uncovered emails from a stock-market analyst named Richard Suttmeier, who sent Dykstra a list of “deep-in-the-money” call picks each morning. Most of “Dykstra’s” picks came from this list. Several bloggers also figured out how these picks performed so phenomenally: He counted his winners, but endlessly rolled over his losers, in tallying his overall results.”
link: Jim Cramer – Lenny Dykstra Stock Scandal, Reports Randall Lane’s The Zeroes – The Daily Beast
“RZ: Yeah, I mean here in Los Angeles it’s tough. It’s tough to open a restaurant. When I went to San Francisco it reminded me a little bit of London. You can open anywhere and people come, a lot of neighbors come. Here you need to drive everywhere, you have the parking, it’s tough. But it’s not impossible. And I think if you can come here to Los Angeles then that’s it, you can go anywhere in the world.”
“Why is the painting-camera gap where Baldessari toils so fertile? Before the media age, when pictures meant paintings, their rarity made them powerful and astounding. Today we’re so inundated by a nonstop flood of camera images that we’re largely insensible to them. Images wash over us, like the weather, so paintings have lost their once-singular ability to galvanize. Using paintings’ historic raw materialism as a guide, Baldessari finds ways to jam the whirling camera-circuits. His best work stops us short, allowing us to see things with fresh eyes.”
link: Art review: ‘John Baldessari: Pure Beauty’ @ LACMA | Culture Monster | Los Angeles Times
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-28
"Riches can be lost, fame can flee, but music — ephemeral as it is, just molecules of air being pushed about" | DJWolf http://bit.ly/9SdYtD # comping sweater song keyboard parts. yeah! #fb # My Top 3 Weekly #lastfm artists: Treme Brass Band (2), David Bowie (1) and Benward/Kolosick (1) #mm http://bit.ly/aTA338 # Ranger3 Plans…… http://bit.ly/bJ6YAr [...]
Bookmarks from Saturday June 19th-Friday June 26th
“Riches can be lost, fame can flee, but music — ephemeral as it is, just molecules of air being pushed about — stays with you. It really doesn’t get any better than this.”
link: Renewable Music: No greater pleasure
“You might have thought that with the chief of police and all those command officers present that the operation would have been run more smoothly. If that was indeed your expectation you are not a police officer, certainly not one with the LAPD. Police officers everywhere know, and LAPD officers might know best of all, that the degree of success in any tactical operation is in inverse proportion to the number of command officers present. Seldom has this proven more true than in downtown Los Angeles Thursday evening. I even saw, while running to one trouble spot with my colleagues, an assistant chief who was also running, but in the opposite direction. (It was just as well; he only would have been in the way.)”
link: Pajamas Media » What I Saw at the Lakers Riots
“In my second year I worked as his teaching assistant. CalArts had no grades, but we did have pass, high pass or fail. John’s system was if we went down the roster and could remember the person, we passed them. If we could remember the person and the work, it was a high pass. If we couldn’t remember them, we failed them, but if they came back and argued for another grade, they would pass. It was a brilliant system that could never work today.”
link: John Baldessari’s former students share memories – latimes.com
“I don’t want to be like Henry Moore,” he said, “just making big monuments for public spaces, like the one beside the Met on the piazza over there. Yet I’m currently involved in a piece I didn’t want to do, for a major American orchestra I have a long history with. I wanted to write a string quartet, but this orchestra is having its centenary and they really pleaded. Eventually I had to give in.”
“I have yet to eat at the Kogi truck or any of the “new” catering trucks. I will not dare turn my back on my beloved loncheras, so I haven’t had the opportunity to taste their food, a fusion of Asian and Mexican, enter The Red Hot Kitchen. I never thought that eating a tofu burrito would be so delicious. And the salsa ? Mathematical.”
link: LA Eastside » Red Hot Kitchen
“The main problem is that most of the places in 90042 that are good to watch the deportes, are not the places that are open this early morning. (Oh, the days when Mr. T’s Bowl opened at 6AM and the drinks were correctly priced.) That being said, there are a couple of good places to catch the games with people here.”
Highland Park World Cup Fever « 90042
“One particularly interesting suggestion is to have journals publish lists of rejected papers along with the accepted research. This would act as a sort of public punishment and might encourage scientists to submit their research to appropriate journals on the first try. Another method to decrease the science community’s focus on metrics would be to allow tenure candidates to submit just their top few papers for evaluation. One commentator notes that, unlike in most fields, science output is not directly proportional to effort. Instead of ranking scientists purely on their publication records, credit should be given for all sorts of activities that don’t necessarily come across in traditional metrics. Establishing publicly available datasets, serving on committees, and developing new experimental set-ups should all be taken into account in hiring and tenure decisions. More journals should follow the leads of PLoS ONE and The Journal of Negative Results and begin publishing negative or inconclusive findings.”
link:School Is Turned Around, but Cost Gives Pause – NYTimes.com
“Locke High represents both the opportunities and challenges of the Obama administration’s $3.5 billion effort, financed largely by the economic stimulus bill, to overhaul thousands of the nation’s failing schools.The school has become a mecca for reformers, partly because the Department of Education Web site hails it as an exemplary turnaround effort.But progress is coming at considerable cost: an estimated $15 million over the planned four-year turnaround, largely financed by private foundations. That is more than twice the $6 million in federal turnaround money that the Department of Education has set as a cap for any single school. Skeptics say the Locke experience may be too costly to replicate.”“When people hear we spent $15 million, they say, ‘You’re insane,’ ” said Marco Petruzzi, chief executive of Green Dot Public Schools, the nonprofit charter school group that has remade Locke. “But when you look closely, you see it’s not crazy.”
Quality, not quantity: ending science’s “academic prostitution”
“Then I read it and responded,” said Mrs. Holzer. “Although it had no plot line. That worried me a little. I see now it should have worried me more. Basically ‘Dude’ was everyman. Everyman who loses his innocence and fights to regain it. But ‘Dude’ was also Gerry Ragni’s own life. His memories. Temptations. His fears. His struggle to create. He’s one of 10 children from a poor Italian family in Pittsburgh, you know. When he was 5 years old, he began painting crazy beautiful pictures all over the walls of his family’s house and his parents couldn’t stop him. Even then he believed he was a genius. That belief has made him tireless.“
“The Dude” New York Times Review 10-22-72
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-21
- making a new tea order and looking to try something new in a white or green. any suggestions? #
- glad to be tying up lots of loose ends #fb #
- My Top 3 Weekly #lastfm artists: Treme Brass Band (25), Silversun Pickups (11) and LCD Soundsystem (7) #mm http://bit.ly/aTA338 #
- Subway FTW (NSFW) http://bit.ly/acjKLN #
- Don't Be A Human Form Letter http://bit.ly/aPluIM #MetaFilter #
- not sure if it's the 2nd 'golden age' or 'renaissance' of TV, but breaking bad is up there with 'mad men' & dare i say it; 'the wire' #fb #
- The South Carolina Primary and Voting Machine Fraud http://bit.ly/9Jq5tp #Slashdot #
- "If there is a Hell [snip] Richard Wagner is there being forced to hear this album over and over for all eternity…" http://bit.ly/b4moxM #
- Are you a 'jazz nerd'? Jason Marsalis revisits and clarifies the term | Pop & Hiss | Los Angeles Times http://bit.ly/dielKk #fb #
- going to be driving down to the OC for a early screening of a friends film tonight. something tells me traffic might be light #fb #
- booked first gig as an assistant cameraman! looking forward to learning new skills & building eventual income options #fb #
- it's not that I'm looking to quit teaching, but if this economy gets any worse i'm afraid teaching might quit me #multipleincomestreams #
- iPhone Jailbreak Videos: A Legal Primer and a How-To http://bit.ly/9N1oMc #WiredTopStories #fb #
- Ron Artest Interview Delights the Internet [VIDEOS] http://tinyurl.com/33834jc (via @pulsepad) #
- Bookmarks from Saturday June 13th-Friday June 18th 2010 – paulbailey.us (beta) http://bit.ly/ckEkNV #
- A Composer Confesses « ANABlog http://bit.ly/drGS9s #
- just filled my car with 5 old computers, 2 vcr's, scanners, subwoofers, & espresso makers, DVD, printer, & monitor for ewaste dropoff #fb #
- just finished tracking the keyboard parts to PBE cover of 'sweater song', next up is LR's 'bonedance' #fb #
- only 3 takes on bonedance, nice… #fb #
- John Adams: I just dont know what to say about American classical music – The Guardian http://bit.ly/ctgbIL #fb #
- YouTube – Mobile "In C" http://bit.ly/90b9Bu #
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The Burger Lab: How to Make Perfect Thin and Crisp French Fries | A Hamburger Today
this looks awesome. DIY + nerd science!
It’s Complicated David Souter finally tells Americans to grow up.
“Souter’s speech thus represents much more than an ode to a changing Constitution or a forceful admission that something that sounds suspiciously like “empathy” means that “judicial perception turns on the experience of the judges, and on their ability to think from a point of view different from their own.” Souter’s words even transcend his own high-minded call to “keep the constitutional promises the nation has made.” What Souter asked Americans to do in his Harvard speech is to live with ambiguity. To, in his words, acknowledge that there is a “basic human hunger for the certainty and control that the fair-reading model seems to promise,” while recognizing, in Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes‘ formulation, that “certainty generally is illusion and repose is not our destiny.” He is telling us to stop dreaming of oracular judges with perfect answers to simple constitutional questions. He is telling us, in other words, to grow up.”
Does Professor Quality Matter? Evidence from Random Assignment of Students to Professors
“interestingly, they also find students whose professor had higher student evaluations typically did worse in subsequent courses. They attribute this to the “teaching to the test” that they think may go on in classes where professors have high student evaluations. Secondly, they find that students who took Calculus I from professors with lower student evaluations did better on subsequent courses. ”
The Civil War as Revenge of the Nerds – Personal – The Atlantic
“There’s a way of looking at the ugliness after Reconstruction–the rise of the Lost Cause, the Klan, the lynchings–as a tragic search for Southern white male identity. First the old slave patrols go. Then the Confederate Army is subdued and humiliated. Then blacks began to dominate “manly” athletic pursuits. Then Martin Luther King exposes the immorality of the Southern system. Reeling from “each successive volley, the Southern racist–and really any white racist–is left with a question: If the Southern white man is proven inferior physically, mentally, and even morally, than what is he?
HEY STOUFFERS! F$$K YOU IN YOUR F$$KING TOASTED A$$HOLE.
via . « Grocery Eats groceryeats.com post very NSFW (but very funny)
Almost All Is Vanity – PostClassic
“We have three markets. There’s a commercial market, entirely determined by huge corporations whose sole interest is money. We’re never going to make a dent in that one. There’s an orchestra-music circuit that you have to enter young, and it’s all about who you know, and the music sucks. And there’s an academic market, which demands a healthy respect for the Schoenberg line and a suspicion against anything populist. I and my 400 closest friends don’t fit any of these markets.”
“Success Is Just Another Form of Failure” – PostClassic
“The artists, on the other hand, are at a permanent disadvantage. The most creative of them cannot present their work with the kind of empirical verifiability that translates as prestige going up the ladder – except by winning awards administrated by other universities. And those who aim for and achieve any kind of popular or commercial success virtually negate the explicit aims of the institution.”
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-13
- My Top 3 Weekly #lastfm artists: LCD Soundsystem (8), Weezer (5) and Do Make Say Think (2) #mm http://bit.ly/aTA338 #
- “The Northerners were “cool, sober, laborious, preserving, independent, jealous of their own liberties,…” http://tumblr.com/xvxarw341 #
- Steve Jobs introduces the Death Star via TheUnofficialAppleWeblog(TUAW) http://is.gd/cxuUk #
- just found a better solution to run Run Rhapsody in OSX With Fluid | Say This Say That Graphic Design House http://bit.ly/cjXOPZ #
- cool beans! my secular oratorio “retrace our steps” was featured last week on WNYC’s @newsounds radio show/podcast: http://bit.ly/ae4sdm #
- great trio of ed ruscha video interviews via KCET http://ow.ly/1SHQX #
- sad moment by moment account of the deepwater horizon oil rig disaster – WSJ.com http://bit.ly/9cFmWe #
- just got done with the initial cleaning out of my garage in prep for it’s transformation to a reh space/studio #fb #
- using air display as a 2nd monitor works as reviewed: via Gizmodo http://bit.ly/9gpRtc #
- my summer home movie festival has begun. 1st up tampopo #fb #
- RT @jeffjarvis: AT&T tethering $20/month. http://bit.ly/aFxA3G (why should you pay twice 2 share data with other devices? #fb #
- Bar set low for lifetime job in L.A. schools – latimes.com – fits in with everything i experienced when i… http://tumblr.com/xvxav5l0z #
- AT&T’s cynical act « BuzzMachine http://bit.ly/9ELXxH #
- RT @HLP90042: Facebook is the cul-de-sac of the internet (and iphone/ipad apps are the suburbs) #
- when did they stop making firewire 400 cables? i guess i probably should return the new 1TB external drive i bought #fb #
- “To be clear: the $5 million is not needed to square a deficit. Homeboy did not spend itself into a $5…” http://tumblr.com/xvxavbexq #
- All About The iPad: Jailbreaking… – › It looks like the jailbreaking community have solved the problem of… http://tumblr.com/xvxavg53h #
- tday’s search for perfect torta was a wash. not fan of authentic cemitas w/t chipotle (walnut & melon topped horchata was amazing!) #fb #
- From The Mouthpiece on Back – › From the Mouthpiece On Back is an “inspiring” “incredible” feature-length… http://tumblr.com/xvxavpzvg #
- just wasted $100 on a wireless router at office depot. their 14 day return policy is exchange only, no credit or refunds. WTF? #fb #
- “When was the last time an insurance company spent $13 million to save you money? The answer is never.” LAT http://instapaper.com/zvb36gdN #
- Video: Tribute to TBC’s Brandon Franklin: A Closer Walk With Thee & I’ll Fly Away (via BigRedCotton) http://tumblr.com/xvxax5i41 #
- Hollygrove shooting victim took leadership role in classroom and in band | – NOLA.com – › According to New… http://tumblr.com/xvxaxbvh5 #
- one more piece of gear and another step closer to performing as half man/half cyborg at an alt-space near you #fb ☠☢♛✴ #
- with all these robocalls i don’t think there is any reason to answer my phone till after the election next tuesday #fb #
- Bookmarks for May 31st-June 4th (finally found an easier way to collect post my weekly bookmarks using blogo) http://bit.ly/9vOQcq #fb #
- Video: this was posted by jonathan gold earlier this spring, it’s not in english but i think i can figure it… http://tumblr.com/xvxaz302q #
- there should be a way to one click add a song that you are listening to onto a playlist via iTunes on an iPhone/iPad #fb #
- Video: this looks like we would all be frakked. Puente Hills Earthquake Visualization (via neesit) http://tumblr.com/xvxazbjtd #
- spent last few days figuring out that ableton live with a MIDI pedal can do everything a JAMMAN looper can. gave me some ideas though #fb #
- I think we are close to the end times when I can tweet that 7-11 has ‘farmville’ slurpee cups #fb #
- my favorite iPhone app for local movie times (Now Playing) is now persona non grata with apple http://bit.ly/cE3kuE #
- Battleship Island & Other Ruined Urban High-Density Sites :via Dark Roasted Blend http://bit.ly/csqRjz #
- the past always seems far away until it catches up with you. i WILL NOT retrace those steps #
- “now playing” developer emailed that he had to take the app offline because data providers was demanding more money.was still working on it #
- enjoyed watching JPJ’s ‘micmacs’ at the newly refurbished arclight in pasadena. not as magical as ‘amelie’, but still visually inventive #
- tried the rest but king torta is still the best #fb #
- dumping 20 years of videos from VHS to iMovie. Madison JMHS, Cartesian Reunion, PBE… also surprised how well the tapes have held up #fb #
- Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested via #Slashdot http://bit.ly/cY0ylG #
- summer break is here and i’m cleaning out the garage http://bit.ly/cexJjh #
- My Top 3 Weekly #lastfm artists: LCD Soundsystem (28), Ke$ha (22) and TV on the Radio (19) #mm http://bit.ly/aTA338 #
- looking over “union voting guides” for tomorrows election. since i’m only a member of CTA it’s interesting that they’re all different #fb #
- my dentist needs to chill on the upsell. i can’t schedule those elective procedures till i know how much I’m working in the fall #fb #
- Pulse iPad App Returns to the App Store
(http://bit.ly/anhkhC) – All Things Digital @SkyGrid # - what happens when indie rockers start take too many music classes (and listen to too much pat metheny and rush) http://bit.ly/ak6z5s #fb #
- Twitter to Change Links and How They Are Displayed [UPDATED] http://tinyurl.com/24vd9er (via @pulsepad) #
- many politicians still don’t get websites & social media and didn’t get my vote b/c non-functional or non-existent online presence #fb #
- Pulse News Reader Creators Speak!
(http://bit.ly/cvoYH9) – MarketWatch @SkyGrid # - Did Apple Tell Times to Shove Its App-Takedown Letter? http://bit.ly/aVvrkc #WiredTopStories #
- A Business Model For The Insane http://bit.ly/avg7hM #NewMusicreBlog #
- YouTube – FARMVILLE Commercial!! (Facebook Parody #1 http://bit.ly/9iW64C #
- Q&A: Slavoj Žižek, professor and writer | Life and style | The Guardian (this dude needs a serious hug) http://bit.ly/cBLBUV #fb #
- “Am I helping, once again, to kill the things I love?” Books: Review: Anthony Bourdain: Medium Raw #TheA V.Club-Books http://bit.ly/9FcsGR #
- Worst. Divorce. Ever. #MetaFilter http://bit.ly/cGI0Oa #
- #nowplaying Circuit by Seams, via @Osfoora #
- looks like i can now can play soundcloud tracks on my iPad (still a bit janky) site suddenly became more useful, but is still to expensive #
- RT @thejgold: I fought the slaw. The slaw won. http://bit.ly/aU5JNi (maybe slaw dogs deserves a 2nd chance?) #fb #
- CSU trustees to may raise student fees 10% http://tinyurl.com/2e9n36b (via @pulsepad) #
- Marine Techie: End Gulf Oil Spill With ‘Mother of All Bombs’ #WiredTopStories http://bit.ly/c0RRPj #fb #
- The Best Way to Organize Your Massive Photo Library http://tinyurl.com/2bkxf2z (via @pulsepad) #
- #nowplaying Escape by Quebec Antique, via @Osfoora #
- #FF @rlainhart @Metrolink @michelle__music @marcmaron @brightcecilia #
- For pity’s sake, don’t go to law school. http://bit.ly/aQ9zPd #MetaFilter #fb #
- taking back the apple router today, can’t really tell much difference in speed and range compared to my WRT54G #fb #
- 12 pages of ‘sad keanu’ photoshops and what inspired them http://bit.ly/aWaBRL http://bit.ly/c53ed4 #MetaFilter #fb #
- my latest ImprovFriday piece is now online. lots of fun with buddha machine, scrutibox, kaossilator and ableton live http://bit.ly/bbzfzR #
- How to watch the US vs. England World Cup match online
(http://bit.ly/9dWGHA) – Geek.com @SkyGrid # - Goalie Fail, USA Win – FAIL Blog: http://bit.ly/ddPZ1w #
- took me a while to realize that image capture in OSX does a great job and can separate individual photos such a time saver #fb #
- Bookmarks from June 5th through June 11th 2010 – paulbailey.us (beta) http://bit.ly/amQk5q #
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“A proof-of-concept written in HTML 5 with JQuery and CSS3. No Flash! Compare to Flash player at scottandrew.com Developed by Scott Andrew.”
link: Scott Andrew’s HTML 5 Audio Player
“I THINK ABOUT food constantly. What will I eat today? What will be in my cupboard tomorrow? Answers are not hard. Lessons I learned from my parents and cost controls I learned in working in restaurants serve me well. Discount stores, ethnic markets and liquidation stores are my shopping salvation: organic heirloom winesap apples (3 pounds for $1.50) that the supermarket doesn’t stock; pork butt I grind into chorizo; $3 truffle oil I drizzle over instant mashed potatoes. Thanks to my knife skills, each salami I splurge on makes a week’s worth of sandwiches.”
“Such large, ambitious marching bands have become a relative anomaly in a city famous for its second-lines, brass bands and musical luminaries, however. More than four years after Hurricane Katrina, band leaders say they are fighting to ensure the tradition thrives in a dramatically altered public school landscape.”
New Orleans Mardi Gras marching bands are incubators for more than music | NOLA.com
looking forward to hiking this trail this summer
Corralitas Red Car Property: Red Car Property: Tales of Trail Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated
“This movie, released in 1991 in France and in 1992 in the US, is the result of a collaboration between a novelist, Pascal Quignard, a director Alain Corneau, and a musician, Jordi Savall. Corneau wanted to do a movie on music and the 17th century; he met Quignard, who had already written about the viol, and suggested that they do the story of Marin Marais (1656-1728), one of the best viol players and composers of the time, and his teacher Sainte Colombe. Quignard had discovered the music of Sainte Colombe through a recording made by Jordi Savall in 1976. Quignard wrote the book, Corneau took the book and worked with Quignard and Savall to make the movie. Savall plays the music on the soundtrack.
The subject of the movie is the life of the French viol player and composer Sainte-Colombe. What little evidence there is on his life was woven into a fictional narrative by Pascal Quignard in a novel written specifically for this project. He then adapted his own novel for the screen, in collaboration with Corneau and with advice from Savall.The casting is as follows: Gérard Depardieu plays Marin Marais when old, Guillaume Depardieu (son of Gérard) plays Marais when young, Jean-Pierre Marielle plays Sainte-Colombe, Anne Brochet plays Madeleine, the elder daughter of Sainte-Colombe.The title comes from a sentence in the novel: “Tous les matins du monde sont sans retour,” meaning literally “all the mornings of the world [leave] without [ever] returning.” It can be translated as “Each day dawns but once.”
link: Tous les matins du monde
“It saddens me to think that it took Justice Souter 19 years of heavy constitutional lifting and departure from the court before he could turn to the American people and explain clearly that much as we might want judging to be easy, it never can be. It terrifies me even more to think that we’ve crafted a confirmation process in which the consistent message is that judging is so simple that any old bozo can do it. If we continue to believe that this is so, we will be on the road to confirming any old bozo that stumbles along”
David Souter finally tells Americans to grow up. – By Dahlia Lithwick – Slate Magazine
“Part of Banksy’s project is the imaginative creation of a public identity itself, unhinged from biography — the name itself, one masked and clouded and layered and fully immersed in the matrix of our media plugged and holistically branded world. How does a vandal/hoax artist negotiate his commercial fame in a subculture that allows only an underground rebel the status of authenticity? Make authorship the work of art, without adhering to standard rules of genre or typical expectations circumscribing where art begins and ends. Once the author is completely unfettered from the authored, then the work can become something of a Trojan Horse, unexpectedly fighting its battles where we least notice, and making us laugh silly at our ridiculous ways all along.”
Banksy’s Self-Mythologizing: A Review of ‘Exit Through the Gift Shop’ « THE HYDRA
“Still, the research seems to validate claims of harm on a larger scale. Twenty percent of those interviewed said they distrusted the sanitation of food sold on the streets, and some stakeholders told researchers that gang members charged rent or they were fearful that street vendors’ association with gang members could lead to dangerous situations. Other stakeholders complained that obstructed sidewalks forced people onto the street, and that open flames are hazardous to the community. Besides unfair competition, other disadvantages identified in the study include: increased traffic and pedestrian congestion, reduced property values and reduced quality of life through pollution of public spaces.advantages of street vending were: affordable products and services for low-income residents, income opportunities for immigrants and lower-income residents seeking employment, and increased foot traffic that contributes to “the revitalization of the community’s street life.”
Lots of ‘Grey Area’ In Street Vending Issue : Eastern Group Publications
“No, we didn’t recover it all … a few thousand dollars remained on the plastic to be paid off. But ultimately a marvelous artistic weekend was created where new works were inspired and friendships were born and renewed. And no government help was needed nor obligation incurred. The artists (and perhaps this is more important in the practical psychology of a rural area) the public saw as working hard, accomplishing much, and doing it all at their own behest.”
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz: The 2001 Ought-One Festival: How We Did It Ourselves — All of Us
Bookmarks for May 31st through June 4th 2010
tried a tumblr blog to post bookmarks, but it ended up being too much work and i finally have a workflow that makes my posting of my weekly bookmarks much quicker. i’m a pretty voracious reader and for whatever reasons (partially b/c i’m always looking for libretto sources and maybe to not face my own soul crushing existence) i like to share what i find interesting each week. i also realize that on some OCD weeks i can probably bookmark more than anybody could read so i’m going to try and pare this down to around ten each friday.
“To be clear: the $5 million is not needed to square a deficit. Homeboy did not spend itself into a $5 million a hole. It has been struggling for nearly a year to make up for the loss of grants and big ticket donations that vanished into the abyss of the collapsing economy. This slowdown of the funding stream was combined with the burgeoning need for Homeboy’s services, a need that the same economic meltdown engendered. The organization patched together operating cash for as long as it could. Then one day it couldn’t any more. That day was, officially, last Thursday.”
WitnessLA.com » Blog Archive » Fr. Greg Boyle, Homeboy…and the ‘No Matter What-ness’ Factor
“The flavor of Centina’s lechon is subtle, with the freshness of the pico de gallo playing off the rich chunks of pork. Eyeing a container of Centina’s merciless habanero salsa, which in the past I had often ignored because most of the dishes at Chichen Itza are already so well spiced, I decided to give it a little shake into my torta. The flavors fused together as if suddenly I was tasting a new breed of spicy pig.”
link: Like Day and Night: Lechon at Chichen Itza and Havana Mania – Los Angeles Restaurants and Dining – Squid Ink
Amazing Archival Footage Of A Soviet Nuke Plugging A Leaking Gas Well
when i die this is how i want to go out. great 2nd line performance tribute to brandon franklin
YouTube – Tribute to TBC’s Brandon Franklin: A Closer Walk With Thee & I’ll Fly Away
::: A chronology of computer music 1906 – 2009 :::
“Google Analytics is now letting users opt out of having your information, including your IP address, sent to Google’s central servers if you install a browser plug-in for IE 7 or 8, Google Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox. Google Analytics program manager Amy Chang described the new tool as a way to “provide even more choice and transparency for both website owners and users.”
link: Google Offers Choice to Opt Out of Web Analytics | Threat Level | Wired.com
“Economists teach us that institutions exist to lower transaction costs. Yes, they’re prone to all manner of pathology; longtime readers may have seen me refer to some. But if you’re looking for a place that combines geographic propinquity of teachers and students, the availability of financial aid, lab and studio facilities, philanthropic support, tax support, and some level of quality control, you’re looking for…a college. You could try to cobble together something on your own, of course, and some of that is to the good. But to assume that turning loose tens of millions of high school grads to email random and now unpaid professors for “incredibly generous” emails that will prepare them for the twenty-first century is just silly. It does not work like that. It will not, and it cannot.”
link: Confessions of a Community College Dean: Thoughts on DIY U
Top 10 Asian Noodle Bowls For Under $7 – Los Angeles Restaurants and Dining – Squid Ink
“There would be only one ballot, open to all candidates and voters. The top two vote-getters, regardless of party, would advance to the general election, similar to the way local officials are elected in California. No party primaries. No party nominations. But candidates could list their party affiliations
The goal is to force candidates to appeal to a wider range of voters than just the ideologues in their own party. Hopefully some pragmatic moderates would be elected, particularly to the Legislature, which is now polarized by partisanship. At the least, primary voters would be given a wider selection of candidates.
Power would be taken from the party pooh-bahs and given to the public. That’s one reason they fear it.
Politicians also complain that in some heavily Democratic or Republican districts, they might be required to run against a fellow party member in November, meaning real competition. That may be inconvenient for them. But it’s a better deal for voters, providing them with a more meaningful choice of candidates.
The only reason to vote “no” on Prop. 14 is if you’re satisfied with what has been happening in Sacramento. If you’d like to shake things up and try something different, vote “yes.”
link: Capitol Journal: A voters’ guide to California’s 5 ballot measures – latimes.com
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-30
- my early impressions of being an iPad test monkey http://bit.ly/aUmKP2 #
- My Top 3 Weekly #lastfm artists: Death Cab for Cutie (11), Aimee Mann (9) and LCD Soundsystem (7) #mm http://bit.ly/aTA338 #
- Unintentional Exhibit A in the Case Against Academia http://is.gd/cdcNr #
- my early iPad review http://bit.ly/aUmKP2 #
- whatever you do, don’t drunk dial FreedomWorks (VIDEO) http://huff.to/b5BpJz #
- if south pasadena is such a great place to live, why do i have to pay them with a check for my water bill? #fb #luddite #
- according to yelp it looks like I’m about to experience the world’s most amazing torta http://www.yelp.com/biz/chago-ahogadas-los-angeles #
- LA Helicopter Tour: Complete Round Trip – a set on Flickr http://bit.ly/brdzWP via @atwatervillagenewbie #
- anybody else think jesse’s speech about woodship on ‘breaking bad’ was a callback to anthony michael hall’s in ‘the breakfast club’? #fb #
- “don’t worry about who you are, get rid of who your not, and the rest will take care of itself” – Image by… http://tumblr.com/xvxa3bs7s #
- via http://www.lewiz.org: Chrome Incognito Tracks Visited Siteshttp://bit.ly/9UmV0w #notsoprivate #fb #
- i wonder how long it’s going to be until somebody does an ebook of the month club? #fb #
- The Proto iPad (in 1988) http://bit.ly/cUVrWj #
- enjoyed improving out ideas on iPad with @patterngrid this morning. don’t mind cheesy sounds (imagination!) but wish it could record #fb #
- improvised this on the train this morning using PatternGrid on the iPad.”it looks like it’s going to work out” http://db.tt/T0LnHP #fb #
- “The rahbar basically told Obama to go fuck himself, didn’t he?” said my South Tehran friend, a little…” http://tumblr.com/xvxa413t5 #
- “it looks like it’s going to work out” (2010) http://bit.ly/d8umts music made using @PatternMusic on iPad #
- last day of commuting via train this semester
#fb # - just realized that simplenote is integrated with text-expander on the iPhone/iPad. Double Frakking Nerd Woot! #fb #
- The Attempting-to-be-Complete guide/review of bike commuting with a string instrument. (what about a trombone?) http://is.gd/cgmtd #fb #
- “The real you is dying and this thing that’s created is now going to be representative of you. And every…” http://tumblr.com/xvxa5dhe9 #
- RT NEW SONG WITH HEINALI http://tumblr.com/xmda53bvv /via @finneyerkes (btw Unbookable is a great name for a musicians blog) #
- “It is widely thought not: Because various dates are fixed in our written Constitution, Americans have…” http://tumblr.com/xvxa5mhvc #
- i don’t think composers will be replaced by computers anytime soon, but journalists i’m not so sure about (via Slate) http://bit.ly/bW9kIJ #
- Video: Boing Boing exclusive: trailer for Winnebago Man documentary – Boing Boing http://tumblr.com/xvxa5z5sp #
- think the wired.com wiki’s are pretty cool, but what happens to them when wired goes under? same for all these other ‘DIY services’ #fb #
- I think i found a new twist in place of our monthly ‘Risk’ game: War on Terror, the board game http://instapaper.com/zw312xbD #fb #
- Photo: The dog that hasn’t missed a single riot for years » This Blog Rules | Why go elsewhere? via samuel… http://tumblr.com/xvxa6z82y #
- more end of semester thoughts on music theory: answering “the why” http://bit.ly/bymVWo #
- Introducing El Chavo – Meet Northeast LA’s only anarchist Huevos Ranchero’s Blogger Huevos Rancheros: Las… http://tumblr.com/xvxa77kd1 #
- Craig Venter creates synthetic life form | Science | The Guardian
(http://bit.ly/b7Pdxo) – http://www.guardian.co.uk @SkyGrid # - “Talent should be allowed to rise, but once risen it should be respected by those beneath it. The ideal…” http://tumblr.com/xvxa7hiye #
- playing at Bordello 11pm tonight with the Ladies Auxiliary. this brass/accordian/violin/tenor drum mashup will make the angels cry #fb #
- some youtube vlog called musicology, not sure why http://tumblr.com/xvxa8r56u #
- fun show last night! now back to reality (finish grading finals, update resume, cleanup websites) #
- “There is no gray area when it comes to street vendors. On one side of the coin you have the people who…” http://tumblr.com/xvxa8ymoa #
- Printable WTFLOL sign via @stretta http://tumblr.com/xvxa94rcb #
- “Even though these moneyed men may have been selfish schemers, nevertheless, the new government needed…” http://tumblr.com/xvxa98qox #
- customizing a wordpress blog is like herding cats #
- “Does open courseware mean we’ll be getting rid of professors? ” – › “Q: Does open courseware mean we’ll be… http://tumblr.com/xvxaaop23 #
- “Certain self-created societies” were stirring up trouble everywhere. The insurrection, the president…” http://tumblr.com/xvxaazi8y #
- saw the jung ‘red book’ & some art about art today at the hammer. 2nd rarely works and this time wasn’t any different #fb #
- i’m amazed how racism and intolerance is being defended as a free speech issue « ANABlog http://instapaper.com/zm6ihib3 #fb #
- via Peter Kirn | Create Digital Music » The Myth of Falling Fidelity, and Audio History Unburdened by Fact -… http://tumblr.com/xvxacg5fx #
- “The United States would furnish the singular spectacle of a political society without sovereignty, or of…” http://tumblr.com/xvxacsj30 #
- E-readers missing killer feature…and a solution. Keene on Tech (using evernote) http://bit.ly/b3NDkR #
- “there must be some public fools who sacrifice private to public interest at the certainty of ingratitude…” http://tumblr.com/xvxadiuzb #
- My Top 3 Weekly #lastfm artists: Paul Bailey (6), Metric (3) and Corey Dargel (2) #mm http://bit.ly/aTA338 #
- Photo: negevrockcity: http://tumblr.com/xvxae3qm8 #
- Munchie Box (tandoori chicken, doner kebab meat, pakora, fries and saladish mulch) food pr0n via Glasgow Scotland http://bit.ly/dkMbJ0 #
- “But I think take back our country is a shibboleth for anxious white Americans who…” via composer John Adams http://bit.ly/d7l5uz #
- just sent out an email updating the progress of my most recent recordings & reviews via my mailing list: subscribe via http://bit.ly/92gsmn #
- Does Los Angeles have a conscience?
Does it have a heart? : http://tumblr.com/xvxaej4ss #
- “Indeed, it was often the difference between Jefferson’s impulsive opinions…”: via: Empire of Liberty http://tumblr.com/xvxaem63p #
- the original home of chicken boy!: http://tumblr.com/xvxafzbp9 #
- In Search of the Meaning of “Mozingo” | MetaFilter – Joe Mozingo had always been told that his family name… http://tumblr.com/xvxag12ww #
- it’s the end of may so it must be time to sell the old gear to help fund the new. 12 hours in and already sold a camera and a guitar #fb #
- Create Digital Music » Android 2.2: Badly-needed Improvements to Audio, Touch, More; What’s Missing (UPDATED)… http://tumblr.com/xvxagfozl #
- Amazon Kindle Fails First College Test #Slashdot http://is.gd/cp5fb #
- “Therefore he published a lengthy pamphlet laying out all the sordid details of the affair with Mrs….” http://tumblr.com/xvxagiug6 #
- i wonder what guy debord would think of banksy’s ‘exit through the gift shop’? #fb #
- trying to print usps labels in OSX and only option is IE8. i’d rather hand deliver the mail than install that steaming pile of code #fb #
- i guess if i was using a linux box i would just have to send it by horse #
- great story about what “who you know” really means in the music business | via Derek Sivers http://bit.ly/9iVQlX #fb #
- Wired.com iPad app is shiny, but disappointing. why would I read articles that I couldn’t share, annotate, or link to? ‘exclusive… #fb #
- … exclusive content is pretty, but not vital. if it’s not important enough for the original story, then why should I care? #fb #
- Does Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop mark the end of the street art movement? #SlateMagazine http://is.gd/cpWIq #
- if you have an iphone why the need for a data plan when you can jailbreak and use tethering? I’m already paying $30 a … http://disq.us/dntqh #
- “Either way, the syncing era is clearly on the wane. It seems likely that in a few years’ time, every…” http://tumblr.com/xvxai35qo #
- Build a Chicken Coop – Wired How-To Wiki – I really like skimming wired’s wiki’s and on our last vacation the… http://tumblr.com/xvxaibp6i #
- “The Revolution had been largely about securing the right of the natural aristocracy of talent to rule….” http://tumblr.com/xvxaidnx6 #
- my birds act like they don’t notice, but I love how they come out and ‘play’ outside the cage whenever I’m in the room with them #fb #
- scary that i been throwing all my scores from 09-10 in piles around the house. glad i found them all before i threw something out #fb #
- The Bigger Picture: a end of the semester post for all of us tired teachers http://bit.ly/bViwf0 #
- Architecture review: Renzo Piano’s Resnick Pavilion a reserved LACMA presence – latimes.com – “The pavilion’s… http://tumblr.com/xvxajz4iw #
- Photo: toxicmarkers: http://tumblr.com/xvxalkib0 #
- i thought AT&T’s cell phone service was bad in highland park, but they aren’t even trying in sylmar. really??? #fb #
- Quote: via Empire of Liberty http://tumblr.com/xvxam425m #
- “all notes must finish, like dying…” All the Mornings of the World (French, 1991) http://imdb.to/aL62Ti #fb #
- “it’s every man for himself” In Remembrance of the Great Recession http://bit.ly/dvyyzY #
- offroading in the forgotten trails of debs park http://tweetphoto.com/24631545 #
- suck it risk! http://tweetphoto.com/24691420 #
- up early and the ideas are flowing. looking forward to hanging at the ramen festival in Torrance with deb later today #fb #
- 2nd time around i’m liking the $10 monthly rhapsody subscription service on the iPhone much better (especially with multitasking
#fb # - looking forward to when i can do this via youtube | how to replace your email responses with a very small shell script http://bit.ly/djSn5r #
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@schlarb i bet. how did you come in contact with her? in reply to schlarb # @schlarb pretty crazy who we meet. I knew the previous mayors kid at (rizzo) & got close look at how racist and mobbed up Philly was # RT @iClarified iPad Controlled With Bluetooth Mighty Mouse [Video] http://iClarified.com/9340 # Consumerism [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-09
- @dbtoub assembling librettos are fun, which che
texts? in reply to dbtoub # - @dbtoub have fun with the libretto and i bet your logic board is going out in reply to dbtoub #
- dear howard zinn…
Photo: http://tumblr.com/xvx9dp2fc # - @dbtoub been reading gordon wood’s “an empire of liberty” while rereading zinn. interesting to contrast history told by the winners & losers in reply to dbtoub #
- Quote: http://tumblr.com/xvx9dsk2r #90042 #
- Q: what was 3 miles and has over 12 water crossings? A: ladies auxiliary hike/gig to eaton canyon waterfall-#Flickr http://bit.ly/d3PyTS #
- …requires that every youngster who appears before her in juvenile court friend her on Facebook or MySpace http://tumblr.com/xvx9dvxvc #
- The only people who haven’t gotten the memo are anxious helicopter parents, mass marketing colleges and..: http://tumblr.com/xvx9dy2e0 #
- RT @altclassical: Douglas Hein: Orlando, He Dead (1985) – Alt-Classical.com http://bit.ly/a5HwHD (one of my all-time favorite pieces!) #
- Photo: I can’t believe he walked that log with his horn. yesterday was the ladies auxilary 2nd gig on a nice… http://tumblr.com/xvx9eee3k #
- My Top 3 Weekly #lastfm artists: Ivan Moravec (5), B. Fleischmann (4) and Jon Brenner (3) #mm http://bit.ly/aTA338 #
- May Day March on Flickr – Photo Sharing! – (via Instapaper) http://tumblr.com/xvx9egfpf #
- Audio: Image via Wikipedia Douglas Hein: Orlando, He Dead (1985) › Orlando, Orlando, he dead, he dead,… http://tumblr.com/xvx9ehe9k #
- @IAmJeffLong nice! in reply to IAmJeffLong #
- “ALL modern video cameras and camcorders that shoot in h.264 or mpeg2, come with a license agreement that…” http://tumblr.com/xvx9ejz5e #
- @mikecrain it’s a huge problem and could be an issue with any ‘creation’ using tech. at least for now this is a video (& not audio) problem in reply to mikecrain #
- 300th anniversary of copyright. http://bit.ly/9xLZEy #
- the bathrooms at union station are a disgrace. for a busy commuter/travel hub how come they remind me of a seedy bus station at 1am? #fb #
- @mikecrain not sure, but a good point in reply to mikecrain #
- Ave 43 and 110 pedestrian bridge – Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: › From: bpbailey Date: May 3,… http://tumblr.com/xvx9f191k #
- paul bailey has shared ’3982944079_2b450238a1_b.jpg’ with you using Dropbox – Hi,Here’s a link to… http://tumblr.com/xvx9f1e3v #
- Ave 43 and 110 – Trying to autopost via posterous (3rd time is a charm?!?) Sent from my iPad Posted via email… http://tumblr.com/xvx9f1kbt #
- Jailbreak App Turns iPhone Into 3G Modem for iPad | Gadget Lab | Wired.com http://bit.ly/aZ1Hvy #
- @iCanicus i’m just sayin’ that i have a ‘friend’ that might have tried it out and was working in less than 5 min in reply to iCanicus #
- the abc’s of european debt http://tumblr.com/xvx9fgr8l #
- think I went the wrong direction in one class & at this point i bet I’ll learn more by trying more new/uncomfortable than old/safe #
- Contains faked moral outrage and hysteria: http://tumblr.com/xvx9fka5v #
- controllerism and the new performance practice http://tumblr.com/xvx9fx86i #
- why the Ipad needs if it’s going to become more than just a portable idiot box http://bit.ly/cIE8ng #
- on the other hand I need a new copy editor #
- what the Ipad needs if it’s going to become more than just a portable idiot box http://bit.ly/cIE8ng #
- cool slate.com tuning and temperament article about getting strings, winds, and fretted instruments to play in tune http://bit.ly/avWLRw #
- it’s interesting how adding a new feature makes my expensive monthly wireless bill much more reasonable and practical #
- the 1980′s chicano disco scene in Northeast LA: http://tumblr.com/xvx9g39zz #
- the faustian trade off is not inevitable http://tumblr.com/xvx9g5n0v #
- RT @HLP90042: Fire at Pasadena Powerplant on Glenmore next to Gold Line (yikes! hope i don’t have to take a cab) #fb #
- how do you like my super deluxe iPad case? http://twitpic.com/1l1ekt #
- The Appalling Reaction to the iPhone Leak http://instapaper.com/zodi27z1 (via Michael Malone ABCNEWS) #
- music theory class activity was better. still struggling to get students to see the big picture. we don’t help by focusing on harmony… #fb #
- … so much in the lower division classes. it’s like teaching kids phonics before they read stories #fb #
- what is a hung parliament (via bbc) and christopher hitchens weighs in (via slate) http://tumblr.com/xvx9gk8jc #
- @FigueroaProduce thanks for olive suggestion (beit hashita). for canned, they are amazing #
- sometimes a wok is the best tool for making penne with sausage, peppers, and potatoes #fb #
- Six reasons to hate Facebook’s new anti-privacy system, “Connections” http://instapaper.com/z47cknzt #fb #
- according to the DOD there have been at least 32 “accidents involving nuclear weapons.” http://tumblr.com/xvx9hjuvc #
- “Our brains are flies, bats, and worms that clumped together for mutual advantage. These parts of our…” http://tumblr.com/xvx9hk9yd #
- Joaquin Murrieta: Literary Fiction or Historical Fact? (via cocohistory.org) http://tumblr.com/xvx9hkff5 #
- I really like that you have 7 days to return a kindle books. also annotations are now publicly shareable. newest cool feature is… #fb #
- …is that the most popular highlighted passages are underlined. on the other hand still haven’t bought a iBook. expensive & no features #fb #
- @IAmJeffLong great! where did you end up? in reply to IAmJeffLong #
- the new government needed their support, whatever their character or level of virtue and disinterestedness: http://tumblr.com/xvx9hqy25 #
- @dbtoub no I got an Ipad, long story (for a job). really liking how kindle app is improving in reply to dbtoub #
- @IAmJeffLong who is teaching there now? in reply to IAmJeffLong #
- in downtown LA and have 2 hours to kill. where should I get lunch? (besides grand central market) #fb #
- @Steffen_Schlach just opened recently? any favorites? in reply to Steffen_Schlach #
- RT @LANow: NBC employee among winners of $266-million California lottery http://lat.ms/bJtHVl (hope jay leno doesn’t claim it!) #
- @Steffen_Schlach meh… I really want the chef/owner to make those decisions for me. aren’t they the expert. in reply to Steffen_Schlach #
- “Timing is everything, it seems. Knowing when is the best time to buy that new car, house or lawn mower…” http://instapaper.com/zz606tzz #
- b/c of ongoing problems with delicious.com i’m updating my RSS feeds and moving my bookmarks and miscellany to tumblr http://bit.ly/aTIceN #
- “On September 4, 476 C.E., the Roman Empire fell and the lack of a single European entity…” : http://tumblr.com/xvx9ieqgj #
- really like where they are going with Treme. opening scene with Wendell Pierce singing St James Infirmary was trancendental #fb #
- @taniachen wasn’t Cardew a Marxist? (later in life) in reply to taniachen #
- one of my favorite places i have ever visited. (photo of monteverdi’s grave at the frari in venice): http://tumblr.com/xvx9j4mlb #
- douchy loud cellphone talker picked the wrong train car this morning. after it was done you’d think we took down a terrorist #fb #
- having a liberal arts education—and becoming a gentleman—”disqualifies a man for business”: http://tumblr.com/xvx9jb5xc #
- seeing people deactivate FB accts b/c privacy. for me it’s a convienent social tool although i prefer an open, annotated, tagable web #
- @stevenjwhite I agree about fb, but it would cut off my connection to many of my ‘offline’ friends. for now I’m not importing much into it in reply to stevenjwhite #
- (uh, this is not good) #LATimesTechBlog Macworld: Facebook applications being added to profiles without users’ knowledge http://is.gd/bXndh #
- RT @bigoandtwigetti: not voting for a buttock with raisins for eyes (is that Cameron? or my Dad?) #
- @taniachen right, maoist. it’s easy to forget the various political distinctions of the near past #
- sunset at ave 43 and 110 pedestrian bridge. feb 2010 #90042 http://tumblr.com/xvx9jqk7w #
- “it stands to reason that giving that knowledge away fits neatly with that mission” (via NYT): http://tumblr.com/xvx9jwjqp #
- finally got bluetooth keyboard paired with my iPad. never got a dialogue screen to enter a passkey, but typed it in & eventually it worked #
- if iTunes is syncing slowly, try this out (via Mac OSX Hints) http://bit.ly/9LG67K #
- performance practice and music theory pedagogy. are we making the simple more complex? http://bit.ly/bUo0MZ #
- “The American Bill of Rights of 1791 was less a creative document than a defensive one. It made no…” http://tumblr.com/xvx9kvv97 #
- Photo: It’s coming not soon enough! First Image From ‘Rebirth’ of Futurama | Underwire | Wired.com http://tumblr.com/xvx9kxgoz #
- Photo: Ipad (via xkcd: iPad) http://tumblr.com/xvx9kztvw #
- Photo: 18 Ariel Images of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico | AtCrux http://tumblr.com/xvx9l6oom #
- @dbtoub thanks for taking that bullet for the rest of us in reply to dbtoub #
- @swcadman interested to hear about his setlist, it could go so many different ways in reply to swcadman #
- @HLP90042 there is always red hot kitchen on valley http://bit.ly/bckX94 in reply to HLP90042 #
- The Illusiveness of the Entirely Useless | MetaFilter http://tumblr.com/xvx9lhpvw #
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- Photo: Breaking Bad Locations in Albuquerque NM › This project commenced on March 21, 2010 and ended April… http://tumblr.com/xvx9ln0v2 #
- I’m really liking @skygrid as a curated newsreader. I hope that they add more sharing options like #instapaper #tumblr #delicious #
- RT @Heinali: Video excerpt from small ‘show’ in Vyhod cub (23.04.2010) http://bit.ly/aidnYi (nice set of live electronics with video) #
- @Heinali looked like you were using abelton. did you make the video in advance and run it also? in reply to Heinali #
- @HLP90042 in may they are having 3 tacos for $5 special (although there is no sign about it at the register). dinner for 2 under $20 in reply to HLP90042 #
- Conan O’Brien Visits Google [VIDEO] http://instapaper.com/z6luvhzM #
- Shop At Costco Without a Membership | via consumerist http://is.gd/c0lA9 #
- @dbtoub the WP ipad app is even worse in reply to dbtoub #
- @Heinali I bet within a few years we are going to be able to play online together. when that time comes I’m looking forward to it in reply to Heinali #
- @dbtoub most apps were rushed out too early & developers were screwed either way. shows promise doesn’t quite cut it for an apple product in reply to dbtoub #
- keep wanting to teach unit on central ave jazz, but ran out of time for the 2nd straight semester. going distribute the research… #fb #
- … have my students help me figure create a decent wiki. from 20′s-50′s central ave used to be THE PLACE for ‘adult entertainment’… #fb #
- and jazz west of the Mississippi and is just a few blocks done from where I teach in south LA. #fb #
- interesting reading US history via opposites (wood-’winners’ zinn-’losers’) can tell they used similar sources b/c agree on much #fb #
- It’s not a urinal, is it? – Boing Boing http://bit.ly/cjLFtU (now that’s what i call an ugly american!) #
- chipPad for IPad (first decent ipad specific music app): video http://tumblr.com/xvx9ntjvo #
- MOVE 25 years later | Philadelphia Inquirer http://bit.ly/a3uQx6 #
- just watching the video’s on the philly.com site are pretty jaw dropping #
- Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative | Epicenter | Wired.com http://instapaper.com/zmdt8lzE #
- @schlarb what did it have on it? reading about MOVE is very interesting in reply to schlarb #
- Could fireboats have sunk the oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico? – By Bryce Hall – Slate Magazine – › Rescue… http://tumblr.com/xvx9o8zgc #
- “Dropping a bomb on an occupied rowhouse was unconscionable and should have been rejected out of hand.” http://tumblr.com/xvx9oc9jl #
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