I got to wondering the other day, what’s the best-ever jazz cover of a tune from classical music? Seems strange that jazz-influenced classical stuff seems so much better known than the reverse. Is there a jazz-community stigma from drawing on the old white stuff? A classical tendency to canonize? More marginalized musicians? A comparatively higher [...]
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≡In Nicaragua
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
I kept a regular journal on this recent vacation, as I did so diligently on previous long hikes and last year’s trip to Iceland. This was a lazier trip than I’d ever done, so I wrote more than ever before. I may have have more to say about travel in general and and some Nicaraguan [...]
≡I’ll tumble for ya
Thursday, May 14, 2009
I set up a separate tumbly thing on this domain. Here’s the feed for the tumbly thing. This whole operation was no doubt inspired by the blog/tumblr separation that Austin Kleon and Ryan Coleman have been doing for a while. Not too long ago Ryan also shared some thoughts on rolling up your content that [...]
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
A couple years ago, Stanford hosted an evening with Leonard Cohen and Philip Glass. Over an hour of conversation (pdf transcript), AND they made the audience submit questions via notecards! A good bit from Glass: Someone recently was showing me a book that this person was writing and she said, do you have any advice? [...]
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
This nice appreciation of Susan Boyle reminded me of the hip vs earnest bit from Randy Pausch’s book: No matter how much we mock those we consider beneath us, it’s much more satisfying to be reminded that everyone has dignity… Eventually, we’ll all feel like outcasts, and none of us wants to be laughed at. [...]
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
I’ve had blogger’s depression lately, but I’m working my way back out of it.
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