I'm a little late to the party, but the album in heavy rotation on my headphones this week is American Edit, a mashup of Green Day's American Idiot by Dean Gray (second-level nom de plume of Party Ben and Team9). If you haven't heard
I keep meaning to post a quick overview of what we've done since the start of the weekend, but as I put it off the list of things to mention becomes longer and the task of reporting more daunting. I'll just plunge in, like a dog
We were having an email discussion with some friends about what musicians we like are Scientologists. It started at Chick Corea, but by the time it got around to Beck our friends were asking if this means the money they spend on Beck albums might end up in L. Ron
In more enlightening news, Pat Metheny has a video podcast!
Because poor Kenny G seems to come in for abuse in this blog from time to time, I thought it might be fun to revisit what I consider one of the greatest examples of musician-on-musician slagging in the history of jazz writing: guitar giant Pat Metheny putting the hurt on
My contribution to the March CD Mix of the Month Club, meeting this evening at Antarctica Bar, will be Extroversion (and Other Examples of Psychobabble), with Covered with Cash generously thrown in as a Vernal Equinox bonus mix.
At the Asimov's web site, you can now find not only an excerpt from my novella "Inclination" but also an excerpt from Paul Melko's fine and fast-paced novella "The Walls of the Universe," not to mention the entirety of our own ❦asphalteden&
If I could have just one cover blurb for Inclination the novel (no, don't get excited, this doesn't mean it's sold), it would be: "Get your ticket to that wheel in space while there's time!" —Donald Fagen
Of the Mos Def character in 16 Blocks, you wrote: “Eddie has the kind of voice that makes fingernails on a blackboard sound like Kenny G.” What are we to make of this comparison, given that Kenny G. already sounds like fingernails on a blackboard? William Shunn Queens, NY
This tune is narrated by a clerk at a 7-Eleven, selling generic cigarettes to lowlifes in the wee hours: It's not that I don't like them And I feel all right to sell it But I'm scared when 20 guys are buying GPC'
Happy President's Day (2004) from Loudon Wainwright III. If wishes were fishes...
I got the best Valentine's Day present from █████. I couldn't wait to try it on and have her take a picture. (All I got her was a lousy iPod.) If you don't know the provenance of this tasty truism, wake up, son, and smell
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