From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2005-06-11: "The audience and the director, it's an S&M relationship, and the audience is the M. It's exciting!" -- Quentin Tarantino, writer and director, in an article published in the October 20, 2003 issue of The New Yorker.
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I'm bringing the oud to Conterpoint this weekend after all.

Anybody feel like starting a pool for guesses as to when during the weekend my tempoary repair to the head/neck joint will start to fail?

Still not sure about the soprano bowed psaltery (I'm definitely bringing the tenor), or whether I'll have time to replace the broken strings on the ( Read more... )

From On Stage at World Cafe Live, episode 104 with The Knack, sometime in 2006 -- one of the brief backstage-chat clips inserted between songs. [Alas, I'm not sure which two band members are speaking here. If anyone can supply that information, I'd be grateful.]

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Despite slightly more comfortable weather (81°F/51%) I'm not having a very comfortable day. Listless, dizzy, achy -- and though I get hungry, I really don't feel like cooking, or even eatingall I want to do is drink, and I don't reall want to drink water ( Read more... )

David Letterman: Do you play other instruments besides the banjo?

Steve Martin: No, but let me ask you a question: if Yo-Yo Ma were sitting here, would you say, "You play anything else besides the cello?"?

-- from the CBS television show, Late Show with David Letterman, 2007-04-26

Last night, thanks to Clue suggested by syntonic_comma, I was able to work out the rhythm notation problem that was keeping me from writing down the tune I'd come up with over the weekend. (And as I predicted when I first complained about being stumped, it turns out to look easy and obvious once it's finally written down.) Since anniemal suggested that it might fit ( Read more... )

folkmew pointed out that Musician's Friend (a place I bought stuff from last century but whose catalog ( Read more... )

"My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us, the world is full of it and you simply take as much as you require." -- composer Sir Edward Elgar

Dammit, life would be so much more convenient if the muse had a snooze button. (Was nearly asleep after a long night failing to sleep, when something popped up and demanded to be written down.)