From the monthly archives:
Dear Prof Bz
As you know, I’m on tour in Europe. I’m working on a whole variety of things and incorporating the things you ask me to consider, I’m just having a hard time doing “assignments” you know, I was a terrible student and I guess I still am. Cut to the chase: let me take [...]
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Some things in life are important to know. Like knowing what to do with your fingers, I mean, creatively. If you haven’t seen this dude at fingerskilz, be prepared: your life is about to be changed. Yes, it will is sponsored by HP, but hey. You will never look at your fingers the same way [...]
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Albert Einstein’s bookplate was designed by Erich Buttner in Berlin around 1917.
[via Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie]
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“Marina” by Daniel Shiplacoff.
Friday we went down to the Marina and had dinner on an 85 foot yacht from 1926 (sic) with some friends who are living on it for a few months. The woodwork was elegant, although the boat is in “a state of disrepair.” The smell of diesel fuel was never too far [...]
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I always loved dancing to this song. I think the dance style was called the Pogo, where you jumped up and down like a pogo stick. It was part of the whole punk thing. My friends and I always understood that “turning Japanese” meant masturbation. Maybe it’s a British thing. I hear that French men [...]
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Here’s a real find: early Joni Mitchell (called Joan Anderson at that time) singing a song from 1965 called “Favorite Color.” In this song, she plays with a capo, a little bar that is able to be placed up or down on the neck of the guitar and a kind of instant transposer. Her guitar [...]
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k. d. lang sings Roy Orbison’s “In Dreams.” A star studded audience is blown away. Listen to the beautiful structure of the melody. Roy really knew how to build to a climax. So does k.d.
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“Beliefs, once acquired, have a kind of inertia in that there is a preference to alter them as little as possible. There is a tendency to reject evidence or ideas that are inconsistent with current beliefs, particularly if they undermine central beliefs; this is known as the principle of conservatism.”
[from “Six Impossible Things before Breakfast: [...]
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Work out the details yourself.
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An American bagpipe rock band, Prydein, has a website with a large collection of pipe images – woodcuts, engravings, etchings, paintings and photographs.
[via BiblioOdyssey]
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