And does Lukas Kmit possess it? I just don’t know, but I am tempted to say yes, watching this clip. One of the characteristics of genius is the ability (and sometimes the penance) to see the world with different eyes, spotting opportunity where most see challenges; a rude interruption by a non-silenced phone turns into [...]
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Apple may finally be facing some competition from Amazon in its core music market. Result: Lady Gaga’s new album goes for 6.99 on AMZN vs. 11.99 on iTunes. Good news (OK, OK, would have been better if it were the Foo Fighters, but…)
This very day in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born. What to choose to represent his art? difficult indeed – it had to be opera, as it’s perhaps where his music is most complete, but I didn’t want to select any of the funny or most famous arias. Welcome to disagree, but here’s my choice: [...]
Best way to honor. Two trailer park girls go round the outside, round the outside.
I was looking for a metaphor for “extreme performance” for a piece I’m writing for a client and these two examples came across my mind. To be understood, the two videos must be watched in sequence; start with the “Hallelujah”: it’s a tough piece, full of treacherous flourishes and modulations and the Soprano must hit [...]
OK, I’m late to the party: although I had a Last.fm account for a long time, I never really used it or, better, never took the time to “teach” it what I like. Taking advantage of the Xmas break I now did it and understood in a second why so many people are hooked into [...]
A while back I aped several other bloggers who had been publishing their lists of record (one per year, no repeat, must own it) by developing this list. But this morning my iPod started blaring the Who’s “Bell boy” and I remembered exactly what I was doing at the time when that record was more [...]
Two bloggers I follow, Nick Carr and Werner Vogels, (and possibly countless others) have put out their favorite list of albums. The basic rules: one per year, no repeats, you got to own it, so here goes mine: 1965 Highway 61, revisited Bob Dylan 1966 Revolver The Beatles 1967 Alice’s Restaurant Arlo Guthrie 1968 Happy [...]
