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Curiouser & curiouser
Music can color a scene in ways one might never suspect. [Thanks to John Schrag.]
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This commercial makes me very nervous. And since when do we pronounce “lava” la-vuh?
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Susan pointed out that my neighborhood was in the news yesterday. The article is from a series about gangsters in LA and this picture is from a gangster killing that happened in 1951 in front of the house just south of ours.
[The photo is by Bill Murphy/Los Angeles and the article appeared in the [...]
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The new phone books arrived today, three of them in a plastic bag. I went into the area where I keep phonebooks, took out the old ones and noticed that they had never been used. I tossed the old ones and wondered how long it would take before phonebooks go the way of Sears and [...]
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In the word to the wise is sufficient category, here’s a song for the list of songs with only one note in the melody.
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In the vein of FRIENDS, in case you haven’t seen this, here is a video you’ll never forget.
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One of the great songs by the late Philip Koutev, a brilliant composer and choral arranger, is called “Polegnala e Toudora.” David Crosby turned me on to this amazing song in the early 80s. This appears to be a later performance of the song.
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“Polegala e Toudora” by Filip Koutev, [...]
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Brad Wood just gave me a delightful DVD called “Glenn Gould The Alchemist” a must-see for all GG fans. At the top of the documentary, Glenn whisks into the room with a small chair. It turns out that this little tattered chair (”a member of the family”) is and always has been his piano seat/chair/bench. [...]
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