Some people find the veins in hands to be sexy. A bank in Japan is now using a scan of your veins for identification. I guess it’s better than an implant chip. What a hoot!
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From the monthly archives:
February 2006
“Left Behind” was the middle movement of HIDDEN LEGACIES, a 7 movement set for four synthesizers, bass, drums, soloists, and men’s chorus, commissioned by the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, Jon Bailey, Director. What is not heard on this performance (Live at the Wiltern, 1992) is the choreography. 2-stepping was very big then. My [...]
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Sick of flying? Train is out of the question? Car? you’ve gotta be kidding…
Have you been wondering about the status of teleportation? To be honest, I have, and stumbled across this PDF in a Wired News post. The language is beyond my comprehension. I did see Uri Geller’s name at the end. If anyone can [...]
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James Horner (one of UCLA’s graduates in composition who never finished his PhD because he started working for Roger Corman) did a marvelous job on the score for The New World.
My guess is that the director, fortunately, or unfortunately, fell in love with his temp music, in this case the opening of Wagner’s Das Rheingold [...]
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As I’ve gotten to explore more and more blogs, and specifically, ones in music, time after time I see links to Alex Ross’s “The Rest is Noise.” So, over the past couple of months, I’ve read nearly all of his writing, and I must say, I love it.
Author, oboist, composer, Alex Ross
Dear Alex:
I love your [...]
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Today we discussed “Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk” (CaCM) and “Poses.”
Both of these songs are on this CD, “Poses” RW’s 2nd album
Discussing the music, we determined CaCM to have the following form:
A A A’ B
A A A’ B
B’(instrumental) A” A”’
A’ is the minor version of A; the instrumental “interlude” [...]
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I was a fan of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention from the beginnning. Alright, I confess I lost some interest after “Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow.” My father tried to dissuade me from listening to Zappa (I think it was “Hot Rats” — still a classic as far as I”m concerned). I [...]
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I had posts about who could sing Rufus’s gay specific songs? Well, Willy Nelson won’t be singing a Rufus song, but will be releasing what may be the first gay cowboy song (yeah right) “Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly (Fond of Each Other)” which will be available exclusively through iTunes. Yahoo news tells us:
“…the song features [...]
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Composer Elaine Barkin, since her retirement from UCLA, has taken on a new passion: Hubcap Art.
“Faygele” (2006) by Elaine Barkin.
Yes Elaine is still composing and travelling and writing, but the hubcap thing is very cool. Here is a portion of Elaine’s piece called “for my friends’ pleasure”:
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Elaine Barkin; photo [...]
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It was sad to learn from my students that our local Rhino Records CD store closed it’s doors for good a few weeks back. Another CD store in Hollywood also went under. The overwhelming and enormous Amoeba Records seems to be doing quite well selling and buying used CDs, LPs, cassettes and DVDs.
Yes, I guess [...]
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