Category: Musicology

  • by popular request

    go, little speed racer, go!

  • look ma, modigliani me!

    should i post manga xian too?

  • Flickr frustration

    hmmm, the iPhoto plug-in for Flickr seemed pretty cool. Then I hit my upload limit but that’s not the fault of the plug-in. So I upgraded my account there. Then when my PayPal payment cleared (or soon thereafter; i.e., today) I tried uploading a batch of photos and it keeps stalling out on the first…

  • Oft-neglected home page / journal / personal blog

    One of my new year’s resolutions was well not really but if I did make them would have been to spruce up my personal presence online. I’ve neglected both the journal site (wake up!) and the all-in-one compendium (my monolog at x-pollen), so i’ll be working on those over the next few weeks. Step one,…

  • Uncle John's, second arrangement

    I’ve been working out the intro and basic melody part on the baritone uke and guitar, so in my usual spirit of laying down tracks before I’ve even got my new parts rehearsed, here’s a funky-stoopit little instrumental take with melody part (mostly drowned out after the intro – you’ll thank me) on the bari…

  • How to teach science

    Quoting from The Poor Man: He Sat Right Down And Wrote Himself A Letter: [I]t is a waste of time to teach utterly uninterested schoolkids how to calculate reaction rates and trajectories of cannonballs and so on, things which are going to be about as useful to most of them in the grown-up world as…

  • Bloggers in the Oval Office

    Quoting The bloggers in the Oval Office… (BuzzMachine): Omar and Mohammed just told me about their visit to the Oval Office this week. They said President Bush assured them that we would finish the job this time. They told the President that they were grateful for their liberation and that the coalition did a great…

  • Google suggests

    Trying out the Google Guessing Rank (GGR) game outlined by Jon Scalzi, I got a kick out of watching what Google Suggest (it’s a beta) thought I might be searching for until I got four letters into my last name. Here’s the literal sequence if I type all the letters (counting even when it doesn’t…

  • Hoder on 'Starting a Local Blogosphere' (via Joho the Blog)

    Compare Hoder’s advice (via [VBB] BridgeBlogging, an eventblog entry by David Weinberger over at the weblog of the journal of the hyperlinked organization, aka JOHO the blog) to the things Dave Pollard has been doing right here in the Salon community at his How to Save the World blog: Hoder: You can only start a…

  • Posting to Drupal / CivicSpace sites with MarsEdit

    I had this problem recently trying to post to Personal Democracy Forum from MarsEdit (the Ranchero application I use with NetNewsWire, my feedreader). James Walker has the solution (using drupal’s blogapi with MarsEdit | walkah) – it involves selecting Movable Type instead of Drupal to get full category support.

  • No access makes the heart go flounder

    Been offline (mostly) since yesterday afternoon, with a few brief intermittent moments of access, during which I usually sent a big pile of queued up mail and tried to complete a few web-service-y actions. Line problems with my SBC DSL are the problem. I have to prove this every time by jumping through all the…

  • Your jukebox should know

    Scalzi is spreading a meme: Open up the music player on your computer (if you have one — the music player, I mean. Clearly you have a computer, because otherwise you couldn’t read this). Set it to play your entire music collection. Hit the “shuffle” command. Tell us the title of the next ten songs…

  • What good is sitting alone in your room?

    It’s time for a (dance) holiday!

  • Falling rain jig (electric rawk)

    headphones on? falling rain, electric rawk remix.

  • Falling rain jig (old timey)

    From English hymn to African-American spiritual to Fahey acoustic guitar blues to christmas carol to jazz piano to cabaret to falling rain version, another improvised arrangement on a theme.

  • by jove

    i think i’m getting the hang of this fretted instrument thing. also, anyone speak french? some ukulele guy wrote something on his blog. jeff? annie?

  • WWPKDD

    My new motto is What would Philip K. Dick Do?

  • It worked!

    The spleen is back! Okay, ass monkeys.: The real Jeff Green is back. Do not read the previous posts by the Jeff Green pretenders who have been blogging here….

  • Blogging the election

    As if I didn’t already have enough places to post blog entries, I’ve recently become a contributing editor at Personal Democracy Forum where the staff is furiously blogging the election all day, particularly looking for technology related angles. We’ll be watching the buzz, the pollwatchers, the chatter coming from social media centers, and any other…

  • Chilling effects

    A letter from a city councilmember running for mayor of LA to an anonymous blogger (4th Floor Blog) has convinced her to shut down her blog (via Martini Republic and LA Observed). Here’s part of the letter: I appreciate the opportunity to respond to your comments, no matter how misguided and totally out of focus…

  • Camper Van Beethoven gear stolen in Montreal

    Spread the word. Let’s help them get their equipment back. (via MZ, who adds: “This stinks.”) >Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:07:59 -0700 (PDT) >From: “J. Segel” >Reply-To: jsegel@magneticmotorworks.com >Subject: [BA-NEWMUS:14634] stolen gear >To: “Bay Area New Music Discussion” > >hey i don’t know if anybody knows anybody up here in montreal, but: > >all…