Do tell!
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
I started to write it down, but here's a better telling from All Things Considered.
All Things Considered, October 5, 2005 - One day in late January, Larry Appelbaum was thumbing through some old Voice of America audiotapes about to be digitized at the Library of Congress when he made a discovery that would stun him and many other jazz fans.
Eight 10-inch reels of acetate tape were labeled "Carnegie Hall Jazz 1957." One of the tape boxes had a handwritten note on the back that said "T. Monk" with some song titles.
Appelbaum, a jazz specialist at the Library of Congress, got excited at the prospect of finding unpublished materials by the jazz master Thelonious Monk. Then he heard another distinctive sound. "I recognized the tenor saxophone of John Coltrane and my heart started to race," Appelbaum says.
The Nov. 29, 1957, concert was recorded by the Voice of America but never broadcast. For years, the recordings were lost and forgotten. Now, thanks to Appelbaum's discovery, Blue Note Records is releasing them.
Oh, cool. I just have this one track, and I've listened to it 10 times before without noticing the humming till today.
Huh. I should totally become a Hollywood screenwriter. Or, you know, write stuff for the SciFi Channel....
Step 1: Strike like crazy
Step 2:
Step 3: Be successfull.
Totally and completely random question - a John Lennon song has the lyrics "War is over if you want it." Does that seem awkward to people? Wouldn't "War is over if you want" or "War is over if you want it to be" be better? (Except, of course, he was constrained by having to come up with two groups of four syllables.)
"If you want it, here it is, come and get it..."
Rank the following:
The Broken Family Band
The Handsome Family
The Loud Family
The Partridge Family
The Savoy Family Cajun Band
Hmmm.
Handsome Family
Loud Family
Partridge Family
Broken Family Band
Savoy Family Cajun Band
I'm just back from drinks with a couple people from my writer's group. Had an excellent conversation with Erik Davis (who did the 33 1/3 book on Led Zeppelin) and Lynn Peril (famous for the zine Mystery Date).
Any Chicagoistas want to see Jonathan Coulton at Schubas on December 8th?
A bus told me this morning that the lead singer of Quiet Riot was found dead in his bed, of (so far) unknown causes.