Category: Music

  • Jazz Fest 2004, day 2

    Still behind on taking notes, but here are my photos from Saturday.

  • Jazz Fest 2004, day 1

    I’ll post my notes later, but for now here’s a photo album.

  • Breaking for lunch

    Even the fugitive has to do it. I print out chapters six and five, prepare to mark them up in pen while wolfing down a bagel and whtefish sandwhich after buying some lox for the flight on southwest tomorrow. (bagels out, po’boys back, that’s our motto). On return (from lunch, not n’awlins), I will key…

  • Cecil Vortex has a blog

    Best. Tagline. Ever.

  • Why At Swim-Two-Birds?

    My last few Macs have had their hard drives named after Irish or Celtic literary takes on mythology. The last one was Tir-na n’Og and the current one is At Swim-to-Birds. Phil Gyford republishes Donald Barthelme’s reading list and while DB claims it is in no particular order, of course it is in an order…

  • Technorati synergy at bOing bOing

    Susan Mernit likes what Boing Boing is doing with their Technorati cosmos links. Mernit asked me and others to link to her entry, so that her example page at Technorati will be populated with incoming links. This also serves to demonstrate the central drawback to this innovation (that Mernit alludes to), which is that the…

  • Patchy access in San Antonio

    My room at the CheaperNearby hotel naturally offers no high-speed access and sadly I can’t get my modem to work with it either. Fortunately, Roadrunner offers pay-for-use wireless service in the RiverCenter mall attached to the Marriott, so I can briefly check mail and get a message out to the wider world before heading to…

  • In the air above Vegas

    Before my batteries run out, I think I’ll get caught up on “what I’ve been doing all week,” especially since I’m only getting busier. I’m currently on a plane headed for San Antonio with a stopover in Vegas. I’m going to a joint regional and national conference of the American Culture Association / Popular Culture…

  • That falling-behind feeling

    Don’t know how much longer I can keep up this pace. It seems like my obligations keep mounting, but I am trying to keep up and stay balanced. Monday I discovered the chords for Ripple are also just G C D Am (a subset of the chords used in Uncle John’s Band). I sorted out…

  • Catching up

    I’m still not logging my things done each day but I’m starting to get to it in less than a week, so that’s something. Thursday I started an email interview with Levi, found the tab for Syd Barrett’s “Evervescing Elephant” on the web and transposed it for my ukulele, put out the garbage and the…

  • Isn't she a beaut?

  • Yesterday

    Did first scan of peer-review comments on Ch 3 8:30 Talked to my editor to synch up on priorities 8:50 Phoned Fox media rep, left message 9:15 Called Nicholas to plan for Dead conference Called Arthur to discuss digital studio plans, and to get his mobile number recorded Left JAC a message to find out…

  • The devil plays harp

    I handn’t bought the Greendale record or heard any of it yet, nor seen the live stage show, but I did just see the movie this evening with Scot and some of his cool friends. Everyone noticed how literally the images tracked the lyrics – and the lipsyncing was better than Britney’s. I could easily…

  • Mekons me like

    If I hadn’t been so ragged out B and I could have stayed for more than the first four Mekons songs at the Starry Pluff in Berkeley last night, but what I heard sounded fantastic. I said to B, “What they’ve retained of the punk aesthetic is the ‘no wanking’ rule.” Everything was spare and…

  • Make it easier

    My guitar was too hard to learn on. I took it the Thin Man music store in Alameda and the dude there to restring it with lightweight strings and lower the action for me. I also bought this beautiful tenor ukulele for $75 because I figure that will also be much much easier to learn…

  • If I don't remember, who will?

    If you thought I was busy before, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Actually, I heard a good new impromptu expression form Outlandish Josh the other day that I’m sure I’ll find myself repeating. I asked him if he was busy and he said yes, he was busy, but “flexible busy.” A week ago Monday I…

  • Laugh at me

    When you laugh at me, I learn where my blind spots are. Things I am trying to do suddenly seem ridiculous. It’s not that I winced or spoke sharply when you noticed me misspeaking. It’s not that I misspoke. It’s that I obviously can’t stand making mistakes and I try so hard to elude criticism…

  • I'm getting the band back together

    The personal expression platform wants to do sound and it wants to do pictures and it’s going to want to do motion capture eventually but right now it just wants to be able to sing, recontextualize, and join the great chorus of call and response. So, to sound. Cecil writes music, sings, plays guitar, and…

  • I was hoping for the toaster

    Magister Mundi sum! (“I am the Master of the Universe!”) You are full of yourself, but you’re so cool you probably deserve to be. Rock on. Uh, OK then. Thanks, I guess, Which Weird Latin Phrase Are You? brought to you by Quizilla.

  • spylist?

    At one point, I used to blind cc my agent any email I sent that might lead to a book deal. There was a time I used to blind cc my academic deadhead friend every fascinating bit of music information or dialogue or culture i saw online. That was a form of blogging. If Nicholas…

  • As long as their soda cans are red, white, and blue ones

    now playing: “Rock ‘n’ Roll Lifestyle” by Cake [Motorcade Of Generosity]: Your liver pays dearly now for youthful magic moments, But rock on completely with some brand new components. How do you afford your rock’n’roll lifestyle? How do you afford your rock’n’roll lifestyle? How do you afford your rock’n’roll lifestyle? Excess ain’t rebellion. You’re drinking…