Kenny Werner - "Lawn Chair Society"
Wayne Shorter - "Speak No Evil"
Wayne Shorter - "Juju"
Cake - "Fashion Nugget"
Osvaldo Goljiov - "Oceana", "Tenebrae", "3 Songs for Soprano and Orchestra"
Lee Konitz - "Nonet"
Re-evaluating what I love about music, and why I put so much time into it. Hopefully I come out on top of myself.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
in sickness and in health
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Beethoven Symphony No. 3 Conducted by Otto Klemperer
Wayne Shorter - The All Seeing Eye
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
Jimmy Giuffre - The Jimmy Giuffre 3
Freddie Hubbard - Backlash
Pat Metheny - Orchestrion
enjoyed with a cup of yerba matte
i've started a listening log to sort of keep track of all of the things i'm listening to. currently i'm keeping track of who played on what, what year it was released, by what record company, and when i listened to it. i'm considering adding comments about each album though....
Wayne Shorter - The All Seeing Eye
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
Jimmy Giuffre - The Jimmy Giuffre 3
Freddie Hubbard - Backlash
Pat Metheny - Orchestrion
enjoyed with a cup of yerba matte
i've started a listening log to sort of keep track of all of the things i'm listening to. currently i'm keeping track of who played on what, what year it was released, by what record company, and when i listened to it. i'm considering adding comments about each album though....
Friday, February 4, 2011
czech it out
Porgy and Bess - Miles Davis/Gil Evans
Meat is Murder - The Smiths
Doolittle - The Pixies
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! - Devo
Windowlicker - Aphex Twin
Windowlicker - Aphex Twin
dig it, with a cup of char
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Not so much jazz
Prince - "Controversy"
Public Enemy - "Fear of a Black Planet"
Daft Punk - "Discovery"
Run DMC - "Crown Royal" "Raising Hell"
Tears for Fears - "The Hurting"
...and...
Lee Konitz/Warne Marsh - "Lee Konitz/Warne Marsh"
Public Enemy - "Fear of a Black Planet"
Daft Punk - "Discovery"
Run DMC - "Crown Royal" "Raising Hell"
Tears for Fears - "The Hurting"
...and...
Lee Konitz/Warne Marsh - "Lee Konitz/Warne Marsh"
Saturday, December 18, 2010
False Idols
I had an experience with my family today that made me realize something not just about myself, but about the rest of America (and probably most of the developed world). I was with my family at the beach and my sister happened to notice that a couple from the bachelor was a couple of feet away from us on the beach (cool, if you're into that. I am not). So, my sister goes over and talks to them and I assume had a very nice conversation with them. Then she says that it was the best thing that had happened to her in a long time. These people were on the bachelor, they have no other celebrity or intrinsic value other than the fact that they were on probably one of the WORST reality shows put there, yet these people made my sisters day (good for her). My point is that we have stopped thinking people like this as people (which they are) and started thinking of them as godlike figures (which they are not). The people my sister met today have not bettered the world in any way; they have not defied the laws of physics, they have not cured cancer, they have not written a symphony, yet these people are worshipped by society. It has now become my quest to figure out why these people are treated with such high esteem.
Hypothesis #1: they give people watching the bachelor a look into the glamorous love-lives of ordinary people which proves to them that love exists and is real (and in fact, can be captured for a live television audience!). The problem with this is that the majority of the contestants on the bachelor end up separating after the show ends, trust me, I looked.
Hypothesis #2: they are really, really, ridiculously good-looking (sort of).
I think we can all take advice from this occurrence and remember that if we meet somebody that we admire, that they are just people (except for Sean Connery). I'm sure some celebrities feed off of their fame, so why should we be so inclined to give it to them? These people deserve nothing but humility and a soft-spoken handshake or word of encouragement from the "regular" population, which they are just as much a part if as we are.
Hypothesis #1: they give people watching the bachelor a look into the glamorous love-lives of ordinary people which proves to them that love exists and is real (and in fact, can be captured for a live television audience!). The problem with this is that the majority of the contestants on the bachelor end up separating after the show ends, trust me, I looked.
Hypothesis #2: they are really, really, ridiculously good-looking (sort of).
I think we can all take advice from this occurrence and remember that if we meet somebody that we admire, that they are just people (except for Sean Connery). I'm sure some celebrities feed off of their fame, so why should we be so inclined to give it to them? These people deserve nothing but humility and a soft-spoken handshake or word of encouragement from the "regular" population, which they are just as much a part if as we are.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Listening for the night
Philip Glass' 6th and 8th Symphonies
Erik Truffaz
Some Marilyn Monroe movie
All enjoyed with a cup of keemun concerto from allegro tea
I hope that zero people that read this blog have a great night
Erik Truffaz
Some Marilyn Monroe movie
All enjoyed with a cup of keemun concerto from allegro tea
I hope that zero people that read this blog have a great night
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Thoughts about food...
I haven't posted anything here in a while. Probably doesn't really matter because it's not like anybody reads this blog.
Anyways, I've been thinking about food a lot lately and the implications that it has health-wise, as well as financially (food is expensive!). After reading about the topic and watching numerous documentaries, as well as jumping on the bandwagon and seeing "Food Inc.", I've been able to improve my eating habits and my diet as a whole has improved and I basically feel pretty good all the time! One thing that I was very interested in after seeing "Food Inc." was the fact that fresh produce and fresh foods in general are more expensive than processed foods in a lot of cases. This basically infuriated me because I don't really feel like anybody is doing anything to lower the cost of fresh foods. However, I still choose to buy as little processed food as possible and am eliminating things left and right and substituting them with whole foods (I'm still stuck on a cost effective way to get processed breakfast cereal out of my diet!).
I've changed my shopping habits over the past about six months and started shopping a grocer that sells fresh foods that were grown right here in the US, and recently I've started shopping at my local Greeley farmers market (where my landlord sells the most delicious cucumbers!) and I've noticed a pretty big cut in my produce bill just from that one change. Today my purchase from Larry (my landlord) totaled $3.50, which included a bag literally overflowing with red leaf lettuce, five huge carrots, three cucumbers, and a red onion. Suck on that McDonalds. I also went with some local beef from locally owned slaughterhouse. I got a big hunk of sirloin for $5.00 even. Pretty good deal, the only problem being that the cows were still fed on corn rather than on their natural diet of grass. In other words, great shopping trip!
I've started making some of my own food to, including bread to eat with my processed cereal in the morning :), and homemade granola with all-natural ingredients. Now I only have to figure out to get refined grains out of my diet, and somehow start disliking the taste of soda to the point where I don't buy it (it's my guilty pleasure). In honor of this post, I'm drinking a tall bottle of Powerade (finishing it from my pre-dinner run).
Anyways, I've been thinking about food a lot lately and the implications that it has health-wise, as well as financially (food is expensive!). After reading about the topic and watching numerous documentaries, as well as jumping on the bandwagon and seeing "Food Inc.", I've been able to improve my eating habits and my diet as a whole has improved and I basically feel pretty good all the time! One thing that I was very interested in after seeing "Food Inc." was the fact that fresh produce and fresh foods in general are more expensive than processed foods in a lot of cases. This basically infuriated me because I don't really feel like anybody is doing anything to lower the cost of fresh foods. However, I still choose to buy as little processed food as possible and am eliminating things left and right and substituting them with whole foods (I'm still stuck on a cost effective way to get processed breakfast cereal out of my diet!).
I've changed my shopping habits over the past about six months and started shopping a grocer that sells fresh foods that were grown right here in the US, and recently I've started shopping at my local Greeley farmers market (where my landlord sells the most delicious cucumbers!) and I've noticed a pretty big cut in my produce bill just from that one change. Today my purchase from Larry (my landlord) totaled $3.50, which included a bag literally overflowing with red leaf lettuce, five huge carrots, three cucumbers, and a red onion. Suck on that McDonalds. I also went with some local beef from locally owned slaughterhouse. I got a big hunk of sirloin for $5.00 even. Pretty good deal, the only problem being that the cows were still fed on corn rather than on their natural diet of grass. In other words, great shopping trip!
I've started making some of my own food to, including bread to eat with my processed cereal in the morning :), and homemade granola with all-natural ingredients. Now I only have to figure out to get refined grains out of my diet, and somehow start disliking the taste of soda to the point where I don't buy it (it's my guilty pleasure). In honor of this post, I'm drinking a tall bottle of Powerade (finishing it from my pre-dinner run).
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