Category: Musicology

  • More on Ornette in N.O.

    My friend in New Orleans sent me this link to the article about Ornette’s performance at Jazz Fest from the Times-Picayune.

  • You must take the F train

    Back when we started Enterzone, a “hyper web text media zine art” project, the goal was not just to produce a kind of ‘zine without paper or distribution costs but also to take advantage of the new internetworked medium to publish writing and art that simply couldn’t be represented fairly or at all on paper.…

  • Jazz Fest 2003, day 4

    I knew I wanted to have a seat in the Jazz tent for Ornette Coleman’s headlining set, but the question was how far in advance I’d need to squat there to manage it, because there were a few other acts scattered around the other stages that we wanted to see as well, earlier in the…

  • Radiohead's lamest album

    Scot Hacker is all over the new iTunes store story, dropping wisdom on theory and practice left and right. Caveat: a man who calls OK Computer “Radiohead’s lamest album” is a man who has outgrown cannabis.

  • Jazz Fest 2003, day 3

    The good news is I haven’t had time each day to get online and upload pictures and such and even now I’m just going to dump raw notes and maybe come back to it later: large iced café au lait beignets …to Blues tent to grab seats, then back out for… crab cake and seafood…

  • Jazz Fest 2003, day 2

    Moise & Alida Viator with Eh, La-Bas!, a surprisingly funky creole fusion. I accidentally capture a few seconds of this couple dancing (with crowds streaming between them and the camera): [click pictures for larger shots] When they’re done we head for some large iced café au lait, and b buys some earthernware pottery from Dallas.…

  • Sauce for the goose?

    Promoters of regime change in the US who run the fooled-ya GATT.org website have developed an alternate deck of cards for quick identification of their most-wanted list.

  • For those who cannot be here

    Sue W. reminds me that WWOZ is broadcasting much of the Fest.

  • Jazz Fest 2003, day 1

    …took a bunch of pictures, here are just a few (insterspersed among a quick rundown of music and eats)… large iced café au lait 3 beignets Hackberry Ramblers (Fais Do-Do stage) … their 70th anniversary, fresh back from Europe and the Today Show, their 16th straight year at Fest… some technical difficulties, gremlins, intros, 3rd…

  • Democracy, Whisky, Sexy!

    I’ve noticed that many people found the declaration by an Iraqi quoted in the New York Times a few weeks ago to be a great slogan for western values of freedom and the pursuit of happiness. I prefer my spelling, in the title above, to the more typical “Whiskey” spelling. Why? Because it echoes the…

  • YA meme tracker page

    What’s Happening is yet another page that comprises a good list of memetracking websites. [via Anil‘s sidebar links]

  • I'll be the guy with the sunglasses and the straw hat

    I thought this Anil Dash weblog entry looked familiar: I’m off to SF for O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference on Tuesday. I’m going against the grain this year by taking my laptop along, “blogging” in “realtime”, and taking digital photos of people. If there’s a box, I am out of it. If you’re attending as well,…

  • Earl King, R.I.P.

    Speaking of Earl King, I was sad to read this obituary for Earl King one of the great New Orleans guitarists. (Times userid: mediajunkie, password: mediajunkie) Most famous outside of NO (and best compensated for) Jimi Hendrix’s cover (as “Let the Good Times Roll”) of his “Come On,” and for the Mardi Gras standard “Big…

  • Synchronicity, synecdoche, Schenectady

    So I make this new category for my last entry (“Television”) and what should come up in my iTunes rotation? now playing: "Little Johnny Jewel" by Television [The Blow Up]

  • His dreams were his ticket out

    Jeff Green wonders what we were laughing at, when we were laughing at the Sweat Hogs. All I know is that there was a time “sport shirt on the iceberg” chanted to the beat of a conga line could crack up me and my sibs without fail. Around this time we were equally susceptible to…

  • A day without blogging

    Since I started Radio Free Blogistan last July I’d managed to post at least one entry every day, until yesterday. Since I use RFB to aggregate blog posts to a number of different sites, this means that RFB had a continuous calendar running back to its first day. I was kinda proud of this although…

  • Saddam hussy?

    This Yahoo entertainment news and gossip article (Saddam Starred in Gay Porn Films!) reads like an Onion article or some disinformation, but who knows? Say, wasn’t Salam Pax reported to be a closeted gay man (I think I read that in the New Yorker) from a well connected family?

  • Enlarge your coalition!!

    —begin forwarded text— ENLARGE YOUR COALITION! GUARANTEED!! Want a big international COALITION? Tired of getting spurned by hot European girls because of your “unilateralism”? Now, YOU can experience the COALITION ENLARGEMENT you’ve always wanted with a MASSIVE accounting breakthrough!! 100 GUARANTEED!!! THE APPEARANCE OF SIZE DOES MATTER! With the help of our GUARANTEED plan you…

  • Testing, testing

    OK, someone managed to ping my trackback ping metablog, so once again I’m trying to ping it myself. This post may disappear.

  • Operation Iraqi Liberation

    It’s been over three weeks since this (Who’s leading Who?) appeared in my in-box and it still creeps me out every time I go take a look. I think it’s the phallic nose. And, no, I’ve never thought this conflict was merely about oil, but it still amuses me to imagine the operation named as…

  • Google as OS

    Every few years some new technological framework comes along to challenge Microsoft’s dominance of the desktop. Since the advent of the Internet, Microsoft has managed to fight off Netscape (IE), Java (.Net), application service providers (Hotmail), remote process calls (SOAP), and U.S. antitrust law (Bush). OK, I’m waving my hands here. Not all these things…