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Monthly Archives: October 2005

Transport

26-Oct-05

A brief pause in postings, due in no small part to efforts to cram in some decent bike rides before the weather turns really nasty. Because, well, I bought a new bike. In celebration, a posting on less artistic (more greasy) matters. This new sturdy beauty gives a great ride, cackles maliciously at potholes, and [...]

Pronouns

22-Oct-05

An opening night treat last night—thanks to Better Half’s latest expressions of design genius. The event was a new, very funny play by that guy who always seems to pop up at the end of The News Hour. The show features a fun star, but actually shows off an ensemble of startling talent—it’s just a [...]

Odds

18-Oct-05

Other than today’s Times review of the AME’s Powerhouse Pianists concert, I can only report on my discovery of Marilyn Manson’s brilliant and absolutely smoking cover of Soft Cell’s 80′s classic, Tainted Love. I’ll stop myself just before I say out loud that it is better than the original (heresy!) … so determine for yourself: [...]

Comments

17-Oct-05

I’m going to regret this, but fire away, if you’d like. Commenting has finally been enabled. It took me a year to work up the courage for this, so be kind…

Piano Men

17-Oct-05

Last night I attended a great big concert in a teeny tiny space … American Modern Ensemble, recently started up and expertly run by Rob and Victoria Paterson, produced an evening of new American piano works, showcasing the two best pianists in town (in town no doubt—best in the world I would imagine, I just [...]

Piano Men

16-Oct-05

Last night I attended a great big concert in a teeny tiny space … American Modern Ensemble, recently started up and expertly run by Rob and Victoria Paterson, produced an evening of new American piano works, showcasing the two best pianists in town (in town no doubt—best in the world I would imagine, I just [...]

Go Team

13-Oct-05

I’ve been researching consortium-structuring lately, for obvious reasons. This kind of thinking, though extreme, is good for everybody involved.

Longer Faster Higher

10-Oct-05

Some intriguing conversations this weekend with a certain far-flung conductor (a wunderkind of some intimidating intellectual heft), about the possibilities of making The Rivers of Bowery into a larger work. This has come up before, and even at the the premiere itself, voices for whom I have only respect and deference were chorusing that they [...]

DIN8, RIP

06-Oct-05

A box the size of a small refrigerator arrived yesterday—that would be my new printer, a monster of a thing, equipped with enough hooplah to service a small country’s paper currency needs. I needed a practical replacement for my ancient GCC XL 608 tabloid laserprinter (loved so much I got myself another GCC)—a workhorse purchased [...]

Longshot

02-Oct-05

It’s that time of year again. Last week the major occupation here was the completion of various grant applications and proposals, all with impending deadlines. This is always an operation flirting with the razor’s edge of hubris: “Oh yes, I deserve your money! Here’s why.” Etc. Add on the sheer terror of spending your days [...]