Roger Bourland
writes about music and life

I keep forgetting how to do this. This should help me remember. Mmmm Mangoes!

This morning I will be attending a memorial service for Muriel Gluck who died last Friday. Mrs Gluck has been an angel for many institutions, including the UCLA Music Department, the UC Riverside Music Department and Juilliard School of Music. Her generosity has supported and changed lives of many musicians and audiences for the past [...]

Sad, sad, sad. So much for Mr Robinson’s advice to young Benjamin in “Mrs Robinson.”
Think twice about tossing plastic “into the garbage.”

Daniel Wolf found this questionable resource: The Blog Readability Test where you can enter the URL of your blog, and find what level of education is required to understand it. I blushed to see that mine was Junior High School. I immediately put in Alex Ross’s blog and was relieved to find that his was [...]

Warning for my older sexually active brothers who wish to preserve their hearing.
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US Food and Drug Administration has decided to put more prominent warnings of potential hearing loss on impotence drugs Viagra, Cialis and Levitra.
An FDA statement said the goal was “to display more prominently the potential risk of sudden hearing [...]

Here is an interesting piece from Neal Adams debunking continental drift–rather, the earth is expanding. I have to admit, it makes sense.

Bionic Eye

© Mark Henderson
Well, it’s happening: a bionic eye is on the way. I love this brave new world!
Video for Book Nerds

“A stop motion video that took me 4 hours to make, i had to move the books 903 times, the books move around and do interesting things.” From Adamuk12321
Professor keeps records…and then some

21,098 [...]

I visit Internet Anagram Server from time to time to consult the anagram oracle, or “I, rearrange servant” –– a resource offered by wordsmith.org.
I recently consulted it to see what silliness would spring up if I put in REDBLACKWINDOW. And of course I had to put my own name in to find out what alter-egos [...]

The terror alert status is still elevated, and musicians are just sick about it. A pair of American violinists may have to leave their fiddles in Britain because the airlines won’t let the instruments into the cabin. Having just gone through quite a few check points just getting to Hawaii, I relate. I misunderstood what [...]

For you musicians out there, the company that makes all those nifty musical examples I post, Sibelius, has been acquired by Avid, the company famous for video editing, and will have its new home with Digidesign, the subdivision that makes ProTools, a staple of creating electro-acoustic music masters for music and film. The company was [...]