Brilliant!! F-ing Shakey!!
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Parick McGoohan: 1928-2009
I can’t begin to describe what this television show has meant to me. It was all about his gravitas and his gift as an artist. This sums up a lot of what I feel.
A Little Love For Roy Buchanan
Most people never heard of him. Hmmm… let’s see, oh yeah, he was Robbie Robertson guitar teacher back with Ronnie Hawkins. He played the blues so bad it hurt. He lived them to, allegedly committing suicide while in jail for drunk driving. In 2009 he would have been 70.
Moyer = Hustle OR geddafrigouddadaway!
Facebook and Privacy – Incompatible?
If I join using an alias, hoping that I won’t be found except by those with whom I want to communicate, will Faceboook treat me differently. Answer: Yes!
Is that discrimination?
Jean-Luc Ponty Interview with Alain Leroux from 4/29/97 in ‘le Jazz’ (webzine)
Very revealing discussion about parting with Zappa on bad terms. It seems that neither of them wanted that relationship to end. And then, of course, my favorite quote:
lj : was mclaughlin very demanding technically ?
jlp : less so than zappa
Shouts and Murmurs 12/8/08 – ‘I Have To Go Now’
This delighted me no end. It seems appropriate with all the holiday visits that everyone, including me, is making:
Nightmare!
AMTDGP
I have to thank Andrew for this – he gets a co-writing credit for coming up with the idea of a collaborative Garageband blog that would allow us to upload projects that others could then access and augment. Unfortunately, even slight variations is garageband versions and plug-ins is proving to create a huge compatibility problem. The way to do this would be to have all the software, as well as the gui, the file storage and everything online. Just log in from a current browser and get to work. As far as I know, this model has not yet been implemented, but I really haven’t checked thoroughly.
Before my bubble was burst, however, Andrew got me so excited with the idea that I quickly jotted down the first tow things that came into my head and smooshed them together. When is a grooving bass-drum-organ loop where I got to use the Axiom 25 keys to control whatever instrument samples I landed on first. They were ‘Prog Rock Bass’ (of course) and ‘Soul Organ’. I fluctuated back and forth between to similar drum loops to get a more human feel.
The other bit is missing bass in exchange for a very low ‘Laser Beam’ midi instrument played on the Axiom. It’ basically a lot of noise and cacophony leading up to a big classic rock rhythm. The first part then repeats and fades. My thought was that these two spur-of-the-moment ideas would get reviewed and dismantled by a dozen other curious musicians, or at least Andrew. The title is a combination of our initials, and this version (hopefully far from the last) is a bit more gussied-up with sound effects and automation. I don’t know what’s coming next.
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Justice served
It’s not that big a deal, but this win feels nice. Basically, you have a home improvement contractor who is taking a bit too long and he gets fired. That’s my client. He sue the homeowner to get paid for the work and materials already put in to the project – in this case a custom kitchen. He then learns that he can’t sue because he didn’t have a written contract. Ooops! NJ law is a bitch that way. The contractor gets sued for failing to provide a contract and failing to do a good job before he got fired.
At trial we proved that he was never given an opportunity to do the job right because he was fired and never advised of the complaints. Also, we proved that there were no ‘ascertainable’ damages which resulted from his failure to provide a written contract. Those ascertainable damages would have been multiplied by three (3x) if they were found to exist. So my guy started out hoping to get money and then was exposed to the possibility of having to pay $20,000 plus. He still is on the hook for attorney fees attributable to the homeowners’ effort to enforce the violation. We’ll see what that amount adds up to in January, but on the other high-ticket items, we were very successful today.