Where do you start when you hear everything at once?
My admiration of Emma Thompson helped me to overcome my reluctance to watch the movie Stranger than Fiction. Watching the movie was a small triumph over my fear that Queen Latifa would settle for yet another roll that might call into question her royal designation. Last week, my friend John and I were discussing the [...]
Bruce Chatwin’s fictionalized account of his travels in Australia tells of the Aboriginal belief that: In theory, at least, the whole of Australia could be read as a musical score. There was hardly a rock or creek in the country that could not or had not been sung. This belief is deeply felt, and lies [...]
I was already more than a little excited when a late-night email from WayneAndWax turned into an excuse to listen more actively to this song: Ne-Yo’s “Miss Independent” seemed to discretely make the case that it was engaged in some important cultural work. My initial impressions of the video for this song by a relative [...]
This image via Slog, the blog of The Stranger, “Seattle’s only newspaper,” which is edited by Dan Savage. Apparently, they will now be dropping the star system from their album reviews. It’s a move in the right direction. Whether in a formal class setting or informal conversation, I’ve always tried to point out that we [...]
If more and more people want to participate in a given institution, the institution had better welcome the new energy or risk crumbling. Preventing large emerging groups of people from participating in “marriage” will ultimately do for marriage what keeping large groups of emerging musics from participating in music education did for music education programs. [...]
Jeremiah Wright spoke to an estimated 12,000 people at yesterday’s NAACP dinner in Detroit. I watched on CNN. Here’s part of it: I wasn’t surprised to hear a talented, engaging speaker. I admit to having avoided the notorious youtube clips whose out-of-context media saturation goaded the Clintons and the media corps into a feeding frenzy, [...]
“Too Drunk to Dream,” which you can download free and legally here, is the first release from Distortion, the new pink album by The Magnetic Fields. Here’s a clip of them performing it live March 3rd in LA, after about 45 seconds of typically awkward stage banter. It’s a little sloppy (it’s supposed to be, [...]
Comorbidity refers to the coexistence of one or more diseases/disorders in one person. Comormidity, then, might in some cases explain a psychologist’s mis-diagnosis of a patient’s symptoms. Certain symptoms might be so pronounced that they mask other conditions or processes, which themselves might be less noticeable even though they’re arguably more responsible for the observed [...]
Tangents for the Chasing
