Category: Music

  • Beck's still got it

  • With the Cadillac and gas money spent

    It was great to see the main rap from Hustle and Flow win the Oscar for best song, but did they really have to alter the chorus to sing about “a whole lot of [w]itches jumping ship”? I’m as sensitive as the next guy, but witch just doesn’t make any sense in that context. They…

  • A writer's dream

    Last night I had one of those long elaborate dreams with several movements in it. Near the end, though, just before I woke up, I was in a big bed after a long night and Oprah Winfrey showed up in my hotel room I think it was. She was going to get in bed with…

  • Remember Asteroids?

    This was once my favorite game: (via TED)

  • Turns out the basis of smarts

    Is knowing what to ignore.

  • Addictive flickr guessing game

    I’ve got a deadline, so I’m going to stop playing this fastr game and get back to work.

  • Sims + Trekkies + Disco = ?

  • The meme of fours

    OK, so nobody tapped me for this but it looks like fun: Four Jobs You’ve Had 1. Paralegal 2. Architecture studio assistant 3. Vendor at Yankee Stadium 4. Literary agent Four Movies You Could Watch Over and Over 1. The Sting 2. Dr. Zhivago 3. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead 4. Army of Darkness Four…

  • Five weird habits of highly effective people

    My blogdaughter, Frances, sent me a blog meme that sounds like fun: Yahoo! 360 – Good Bloggin’ West – Five Weird Habits of Highly Effective People… OK, so here are five of my weird habits: When someone’s voice or way of talking sounds funny to me I, almost involuntarily, imitate them under my breath. Sometimes,…

  • Serenity… well, not now, but maybe later

    According to Empire: Movie News, the Serenity movie didn’t do well enough in its theatrical release to justify sequels, but Joss Whedon is still sanguine that he will be able to continue the story, perhaps on TV again, possibly in the miniseries format.

  • Another language peeve

    When did touch base morph into touch base*s*? Is it because few people still follow baseball? In baseball touching base is making an important connection. Touching bases sounds like two people each holding some kind of “base” and touching them together. I can’t picture it.

  • U2 at Jazz Fest 2006

    Ruh roh! Rumor has it that U2 has been booked for Fest. This may be good for turnout but it may also be kind of a nightmare for just hanging out and being mellow.

  • National Novel Editing Month

    “Enough with the Grateful Dead already,” writes so-called Bill. “What happened to Cecilia?” Well, I didn’t get into the 50,000-words-in-November winners circle. (Some people hit that number in the first week! I on the other hand, have a life.) I did, however, hit my personal goal of 30,000 words by Nov 29 and I took…

  • When you go to California….

    A friend on a mailing list, writing to another friend who’s contemplating a move, passed along this wonderful quotation: Someone had mentioned an analogy that had begun to prey on my mind. Going to California, he had said, was like entering a swimming-pool. It was pleasant, you swam a few laps, and before you knew…

  • December 18? I'll take it

    Warning… adult content.

  • Strange blog-spam problem

    Movable Type is doing something bizarre here. I’ve got this entry, Blogging a yoga conference @ Radio Free Blogistan and it shows 19 spam comments in the counter and on the individual archive page. The spam comments are also showing up in my list of recent comments in the sidebar of RFB. Ironically, they’ve all…

  • Fest Lives!

    I’m not sure bigger is always better, but I’m glad to hear that Festival Productions is committed to making Jazz Fest happen on schedule next year: Planners promise bigger Jazzfest We may need to get our plane tickets soon!

  • A novel a day keeps the doctor away

    So far, so good. B and I went away for the weekend to celebrate my birthday but I’ve posted two installments of my daily NaNoWriMo effort today to make up for it. There’s a lot to be said for writing fast without fear or favor.

  • Happy NaNoWriMo

    I took the plunge this year and signed up for National Novel Writing Month. I’ll be “doing it” over at A Supposedly Staggering Infinite Work of Heartbreaking Illumination I’ll Never Read. I also have a profile page over at the nanowrimo site. The novel I’m working on is called For You, The Stars Wish me…

  • Eight years before the blog

    One thing about starting my first online journal on my birthday back in 1997 is it makes it pretty easy to keep my blogiversary straight.

  • Blogging from Flock

    This is a test post from Flock. So far, so cool.