Oh, yes. Live Aid. To my eternal regret, I got to see it later that year in a recording. A couple of years later, a friend - rock obssessed, guitar-playing, fan mail to Rush writing - four cassette set of Queen and asked me a few times if I…
Donkeys squeee! you shoulda watched bresson! "A madman, a donkey and a villainWere the choices the people were givenSo they chose the partyThat was totally out to tea'Cos it was better than voting Republican." There. A joke, AND an (modestl…
hey! was wondering yesterday how you were :-) Going slo-oooo-ooo-www, man. How've you been? Uh-huh. That's how I've been. Just "uh-huh". And I don't know if it's going slow or going so fast that I can no longer tell if I'm moving at all. Wo…
slim paperback on Linguistics :) now if only it has been a vintage copy of the LIFE magazine. BM: That was *awesome*. Who knew carrying tattered copies of the New Yorker could strike fear in criminals' hearts? Ya, well, all I can say is, th…
NICE!that is some number one guitar agency right there! shades of stanley jordan!and a perfect title once again :-) Shades of Jordan, Jeff Healey, delta blues, so many things....(the dude behind Ronnie looks like your typical rock band mana…
rip :-(such a beautiful rendition. Nice. But for me the quintessential Peter Paul and Mary song will always be Puff the Magic Dragon. TR: Such lovely voices, esp. hers.Falstaff: That claim would always be followed by "so...you want to smoke…
i think you're looking for the Supermodel of Mensa. NOW I'm afraid of the spam links :) The Puranic ocean churning story, in which Mohini "distracts" the asuras and makes away with the nectar, readily illustrates that cosmic profundity cann…
:Dand...'raked wingtips'?! too much only. Yes, "raked wingtips". So stylish and all. Yes, to go with Rakesh's rakish hairstyle. Ugh, I disgust myself. Unless Rakesh's rakish hairstyle makes him look manish. That would be confusing. i hope t…
Gorgeous stuff. Reminds me of some papers in tiling theory that I read a while ago. Interestingly, it appears that Muslim artisans recognised the various symmetries that allowed them to tesselate the plane way before these were rigorously e…
You mean Britney isn't cool? No? What about Beyonce?It's true there are very few women on my pop-rock CD shelf (Joni Mitchell and Carole King are the only ones I can think of). In jazz there are a bunch of vocalists in my collection, at lea…
Speaking of YouTube videos - I think you'll get a kick out of this one.Courtesy Boing Boing. I saw that :) Did you see another vid recently on BB about some kids who mashed up a talent show with Super Mario? Saw that too. The beginning was
Incredible !some spooky camouflage by octopi : here (starts at 1.19min) and here wow that seriously impressive - I could figure out two sea horses in the small pic but they rest just looked like sea weed! blewgenes: woah, the first clip is