Saturday, February 2, 2008

Bottomless Links: The Premeire Edition

Taking a cue from Occasional Superheroine and her clever Occasional Links feature, I give you a brief list of links that have caught my attention recently:

Good Morning Captain America

This morning's edition of Good Morning America featured a cheeky interview with the new Captain America regarding his decision to carry a gun. The cool thing about this video is that it features short interviews with Joe Quesada and patrons at Midtown Comics!

Fair is Fair

Andrew Durkin from Jazz: The Music of Unemployment reports on a Craigslist posting regarding the continual audacity of Starbucks:

In response to this CL ad:

Beaverton Town Square Starbucks is reaching out to musicians and bands alike to come play for us. Gigs would be Fridays and Saturdays at 9pm, sorry but we can't offer reinbursment of any kind, but you can sell cd's and put out a tip jar. We don't
provide equipment, and we don't comp drinks. If interested E-mail Paul at
"blackbox098@gmail.com" for more information.Thank you and we hope to hear from you.

There was this:

Come make coffee for me at my home! I am reaching out to all Starbucks to come to my home and make coffee for me. The gig would be Fridays and Saturdays and sorry, I can't offer reimbursement of any kind, but you can put out your tip jar. I don't provide equipment, and I don't comp donuts. If interested email me for more information.Thank you and I hope to hear from you.

It's all here.

If you're unfamiliar with Durkin's Industrial Jazz Group, you really need to check them out!

Tourblogging: Latin America

Speaking of jazz... drummer John Wikan is on the road in Latin America. Check out his guest blogs on Darcy James Argue's Secret Society blog where he recounts his time in Nicaragua and Panama.

Some Serious Serialism

I've decided to make the opening statement of Blaine a 12 tone row. I haven't studied serialism in much depth so as I played catch up this morning, I came across this amazing scan of a Schoenberg tone row chart:


I suppose I should study and analyze it, but really, I just think it looks pretty!

2 comments:

Gregory Dudzienski said...

Great links. The Schoenberg scan is very cool (and you're right, it is almost hypnotic to look at. It reminds me of the "key area sketch" of Trane's that is in the beginning of Yusef's Repository).

Anonymous said...

Hey there.

Thanks so much for commenting.

I actually agree with some of what you said. The whole thing is the beginning of a project with some ideas that have not been undeveloped. So some of the ideas I said I'll explore may prove to be un-explorable. I just had all of this text that I wanted to publish although it was undeveloped or finished.

And even I take the whole "better" thing with a grain of salt.

-I didn't know quite where to reply. I'm not as familiar with Blogger as I would like. I hope this is fine.-

-aaron