Wha...? An album of jazz covers of Pavement songs
Jayne (Husband): Oh, I think you might wanna reconsider that last part. See, I married me a powerful ugly creature. Mal (Wife): How can you say that? How can you shame me in front of new people? Jayne (Husband): If I could make you purtier, I would. Mal (Wife): You are not the man I met a year ago.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
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.
DavidS - Feb 11, 2005 2:57:48 pm PST #7339 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Steph L. - Feb 11, 2005 3:22:41 pm PST #7340 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I guess we haven't mentioned the passing of Jimmy Smith. (Damn you Arthur Miller!)
Chatty!co-worker, Mod that he is, was very bereft. (And impressed that I knew who Jimmy Smith was. For which I have NPR to thank.)
Being a Mod in the UK in the late fifties/early sixties (well before the Who) meant you were a Modernist. That means you liked modern jazz, but most especially you walked around with a new Jimmy Smith LP under your arm.
Chatty said that, due to his love of thrift stores, he's pretty sure he amassed the complete LP recordings of Jimmy Smith for under $7.
Jon B. - Feb 11, 2005 6:43:14 pm PST #7341 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I thought you might be able to offer some good advice.
The Etherwave. It's what I played until I recently traded up. It's good enough (i.e. linear enough, with well-spaced notes) to play musically (as opposed to just making a racket), but still reasonably priced. You can buy one discounted from Zzounds: [link]
It's made by Bob Moog's company, who also made that midi theremin (which was a thing of beauty -- I got to try it out once).
Polter-Cow - Feb 11, 2005 6:53:32 pm PST #7342 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Thanks, Jon!
Jesse - Feb 11, 2005 6:53:33 pm PST #7343 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Har. I just clicked on the sample sounds from that theremin, and my cat -- who doesn't react to ANYTHING on the tv, cats, dogs, nothing -- totally freaked out.
tommyrot - Feb 11, 2005 7:07:26 pm PST #7344 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Now I'm tempted to buy a theremin and see if I can get my cat to play it. I could give him a treat every time he got close enough to make a noise out of it.
Although maybe a cat could not control both the pitch and volume at the same time. Better get another cat.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 11, 2005 7:15:41 pm PST #7345 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Now I'm curious. I remember Valerie from Mistle Thrush thanking her dad for helping her build her theremin. Do they also come in kit form? Or is that more a "mad scientist" project?
tommyrot - Feb 11, 2005 7:20:20 pm PST #7346 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I googled "theremin kit" and came up with a lot of matches....
Frankenbuddha - Feb 11, 2005 7:23:02 pm PST #7347 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I googled "theremin kit" and came up with a lot of matches....
If any of them are porn, I do not want to know.
And after that, saying "I don't Google enough" sounds all sorts of wrong...
tommyrot - Feb 11, 2005 7:26:27 pm PST #7348 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Or if you want to be super extra special double-fudge geeky, you can forgo a kit and build a theremin from scratch: [link]