Day Two. Let’s go a little classical today. Brothers Steven and Stijn Kolacny play classical piano as Pianoduo Kolacny. They also formed the Scala Youth Choir in 1996. The group is from the Belgian town of Aarschot and is comprised of approximately 60 teenage girls, with Stijn conducting and Steven accompanying on piano, performing choral [...]
Radiohead Covers: We’ve got heads on sticks…
If you read this blog, you may notice the weird scattershot way that I approach popular culture. Wide breadth, filled with peculiar gaps. For example, Radiohead. I’m sure I must have heard “Creep” when it came out in 1993. I just don’t remember it. When The Bends came out in 1995, I really liked “My [...]
“Y’all hear that Nolia Clap?”
You should read this article in today’s New York Times about how the attitude of musicians in New Orleans has changed since Katrina. It’s both sad and amazing about how many of the classics songs of New Orleans — music going back a hundred years — now have new meanings. It’s also stirring to watch [...]
“You’ve got to get what you got to say out because you got to.”
I finally saw Hustle & Flow, which is nominated for two Academy Awards. Terrence Howard‘s performance really is amazing, but I can’t believe that Three 6 Mafia are nominated in the category of Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song for “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp”. ( Some related commentary [...]
Not for lack of conviction…
In case you haven’t heard, Dick Wolf’s new show Conviction, which will premier on broadcast television on March 3, is available now as a free download from the iTunes Music Store. Yr. ob. servant downloaded said program onto my trusty Video iPod and watched it last night. (I wrote about my only previous attempt at [...]
Creative (perhaps) “writing” (?) — Part 4
[Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.] The latest installment in our ongoing examination of the fine writing staff for the AIM Today home page. Today, we see what they came up with for a link that goes to a Forbes listing of the most entrepreneurial supermodels. Let’s see, gals like Gisele Bundchen, Heidi Klum, Tyra [...]
The devil is in the details.
The Bush administration has been criticized for some time for its views of — and use of — science. The issue raised its head again when it was reported that there had been “a visit to the White House last year by Michael Crichton, whose 2004 best-selling novel, ‘State of Fear,’ suggests that global warming [...]
“All men live enveloped in whale-lines. “
LORELAIOoh, and here, of course, is the big-time Martha’s Vineyard thing: Whaling. LUKEThey have whaling? LORELAINot any more, it’s just a fun fact. ‘Martha’s Vineyard was one of the world’s largest whaling ports.’ Says here, people used every part of the whale back then. The most important being spermacetti, used in candle production. Yuck. They [...]
“The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools…”
Here is an item I wrote on The Pop View back in late August of 2000: ALTERNATIVE TO WHAT: A recent article in the New York Times nicely summed up the quandary facing “alternative” (AKA “modern rock”) radio stations. Namely, that the mainstream rock radio station across town is playing the same music. Korn, Limp [...]
News Roundup: Sooner or later, love is gonna getcha
Items that were in the news the past few days, primarily drawn from the Washington Post… A fascinating piece in today’s WaPo by Dan Morse about moleskine enthusiasts. Apparently, these little notebooks (which I’ve seen plenty of times before, but never knew they had a specialized name) have become very popular among tech types and [...]