My S.F. correspondent Maureen, sent me this link! What a great ad! Now, to get my squeegee and pail and hustle air fare.
Music
November 12, 2009
July 19, 2009
Whats been catching. . .my ear!
Sometimes I want radio, not thinking about choosing, etc about tunes. . .and found SomaFM via the iTunes radio menu - heard Bill Laswell, Nils Petter Molvar and then Jon Hassel, all in a row, great - I will be tuning in more. Now there's some drone Enya-esque thing, but I can live with it . . . maybe. Of course, they're broke and need support.
Obit watch : Tom Wilkes, Album Cover Designer
Okay, okay, everyone's gonna be all over the Cronkite death and retrospectives. But someone else with a generational impact just died. Remember albums? Talk about design real estate for creatives. dude, 144 square inches, or more depending on whether it was an double album that opened up. Tom Wilkes was a heavy hitter, and when you see the art in the NYT obit, you'll go whoa, I remember that [ if you're over 45 I should add ]. Speaking of albums, I've taken the talk about the return of vinyl with a massive chunk of salt crammed down my shredded esophagus, but the other night after swilling oysters at Stella's in Uptown my brother and I went into El Cheapo on W. Lake St, and in the basement - o m g - records as far as the eye could see - I haven't seen that many in one place since Amoeba records in S.F in the 80s, or maybe Tower Records at their height.
June 14, 2009
another 50th !
hmmmm, one must be getting on when 50th anniversaries of this and that mean something. So besides the Guggenheim 50th, a great musical one! It's the golden anniversary of Dave Brubeck's jazz classic Time Out l.p. M'gosh, at least vinyl is making a limited comeback, at least for a few. Brubeck's 89 and he's still pluggin'! Here are some details from the B Sides blog and the story on NPR is priceless and insightful.
