Archive for the ‘music’ Category
Monday, October 29th, 2007
I attended Myers Elementary School (suburban Philadelphia). from first grade through fourth grade - autumn 1981 through fall of 1985. I recall our music classes singing some tunes I would not expect to find in the, err, "syllabus," for such a class. Robert Goltz and Jan Goltz taught ...
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Sunday, December 31st, 2006
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6×10 to the 23rd / Avogadro's Number
(parody of 867-5309/Jenny)
Performed at: New Focus, Inc.,
2630 Walsh Avenue, Santa Clara, CA
Tuesday Lunch, June 15, 1999
All the band members were New Focus employees. The rehearsals for the above song consisted of their playing the song without my "singing," and my singing ...
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
I just burned a CD of Weird Al's nine polkas, from 1984 to 2006. See, next Sunday, my short-form improv class will finish with a performance. 45 minutes, 6 or 7 games. One of them is "Jukebox," where we sing a bit of a song that's somewhat related to a ...
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Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
In an odd and yet meaningless coincidence, the DC-area "classic rock" station was playing the same song ("The Distance", by Cake) in my car when I left it at 10 AM as when I got back into at more than 12 hours later - almost as if I were listening ...
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Thursday, February 16th, 2006
This is not the first post of this nature. Anyway, the show included a riff from Jonathan Richman's "Lonely Little Thrift Store" after a segment on Walmart's banking service. Good choice! They've used this riff before, and the album is sold on the Public Radio Music Store. Speaking ...
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Thursday, June 30th, 2005
Click on the above link for a nice interview with Yo La Tengo, one of my favorite bands, about their new compilation CD. It's pretty funny, though I expect many won't get it. There's something about the rapport and under-stated satire.
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Sunday, June 19th, 2005
Last night I joined my friend Duff and his friends for karaoke at the Outback Saloon in North Boulder. I've been in Boulder for six years, and it's the first time I've done karoke here. (Not including a foiled attempt a few years ago.) The karaoke DJ was great: enthusiastic, ...
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Friday, March 4th, 2005
until now. I don't drink coffee, and consider corporations innocent until proven guilty. Still, I don't go to Starbucks, as I prefer the atmosphere of other places, but I don't get self-righteous about it. Certainly there are more important things to get self-righteous about, like punctuation (Ironically, ...
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2005
I was at a friend Ben's house to watch the Super Bowl. Eagles almost pulled it out. What's the percentage of successful on-side kicks, anyway? I read something about that recently. Paul McCartney sure has the head bob thing going when he performs. There's something a ...
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005
On Monday evening I saw the band Luna perform in Boulder. Great show. Often at concerts I find myself thinking about what the next song will be before the current song is over. This time I was quite absorbed in the moment, enjoying the song in the ...
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