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2 December 2008
21:27:02
I wonder if I should start another weblog where all I do is post links to versions of minor swing. People seem to do things like that. I would read it, but there wouldn't be much point in that though.
16:45:02
Hmmmm - the music sounds like generic "medieval" film background music to me, rather than actual medieval music.
13:34:02
BL plays bass......
13:25:02
Birelli L. swings minorly (but with lots of Charlie Parker in there too) I like the comment that says "so that's where half the world's talent went"
12:45:02
Swing Gitan - great tuange but why the wrong aspect ratio?
12:43:02
Debarre and Beier - ridiculous quantities of musicianship and technique on display here.
12:38:02
Swing Mineur - I wonder the Hungarian is for it?
1 December 200812:50:01
<0Lovely (via red ferret)0>
11:58:01
Forget spotify : vile, unskippable adverts....
30 November 2008 29 November 200821:45:29
This looks like a repository of J-Walk caption competition pictures. (Some great images here)
28 November 200820:17:28
Food Art - this has probably been linked to death elsewhere but I hadn't noticed it in my travels.
14:22:28
Trying out Spotify - I have to confess to being rather impressed so far. It passed the Bob Wills test with flying colours, and the Hampton Hawes test and, unlike many other music systems, I actually found something I wanted to listen to that I didn't know existed!
12:31:28
Minority report style interface - lovely demo, but look how hard it is use. It's so like being a mime that I am surprised you don't have to wear a stripey shirt. Most people simply don't have that level of balletic control over their movements.
27 November 200816:28:27
Mandolin heaven - interesting chat, but just look at the walls.....
26 November 2008 25 November 200821:33:25
Listening to some David Sedaris - very funny.
09:02:25
John W in the comments asks why people rave about Hang drums and not about Steel drums. Well, first off, what I was liking was the sound not the technique - I am pretty certain that if I had one I could play exactly like the videos in about 10 minutes. (And better than a lot of the playing in the videos on youtube, some of which is just embarassing). Second, well, I'll be honest, I hate steel drums. I always have. I loathe the sound they make and I am not a huge fan of the kinds of music people play on them. There is little worse than hearing a local school steel band playing a medley of Beatles' tunes.
24 November 2008 22 November 2008 21 November 2008 20 November 200816:33:20
Went to see "Easy Virtue" last night - I enjoyed it : good ensemble playing and great sets in addition the whole Noel Cowardness of it.
16:32:20
Hmm, google reader is not working for me today.
16:32:20
Hmm, google reader is not working for me today.
19 November 200813:38:19
What on earth is he wearing? (Might conceivably be NSFW for some people)
18 November 200816:18:18
J-Walk doing counting made me wonder how many posts I've made, so I looked in the database and this one will be 16994 of the ones that are logged in there but volumes 0-33 are not in the DB and the early ones are not hard to tot up. Hmmm, clock up another 1603 from vols 10-33. And approximately 650 from the earliest ones. So, 19247.
15:50:18
I can't make up my mind about Sterling's new thing
17 November 200815:53:17
Liking the new Stephane Wrembel Trio with David Grisman album. You can get it on e-music too.
15:08:17
There's a very "end of the world" sky at the moment. Misty and ominous.
15:01:17
I really must get one of those wifi detector T-shirts
14:46:17
Ahh, Emerson and Newton doing Headin' West - a great song well played. I love those up tempo but yet slightly mournful bluegrass songs. The album's called "A foot in the past, a foot in the future" which is a wonderful name.
16 November 2008
22:33:16
Watched Napoleon Dynamite tonight - what a strange film.
22:27:16
I just watched the new world record domino video. Possibly one of the dullest things ever.
15 November 200814:20:15
Bud Powell plays Jordu - lovely playing
14 November 2008 13 November 200814:28:13
RIP Mitch Mitchell
11 November 2008 10 November 200822:34:10
Why did nobody tell me that the dcabin joke comes from Gravity's Rainbow??
7 November 200820:19:07
*** power off all weekend so no catless till monday ******
14:37:07
J-Counters - so rabbits use the bird counter because of their ears!
6 November 200809:29:06
Great headline on the Sun today : "As Obama gets huge election. The earth moves"
5 November 200809:48:05
A whole load of Apps have vanished from my iTouch and I have no idea how to get them back. *sigh*
4 November 200820:11:04
I wonder where I can get Futurama series 5 on DVD - seems never to have appeared over here and looks quite hard to find.
19:59:04
What's the integral of dcabin/cabin? Answer in the comments.
3 November 200816:46:03
Turned out nice again (via Gromblog)
11:00:03
I just got spam asking me if I sold rim straightening machines.
08:43:03
Brian's Drive-In Theatre : Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine?????
2 November 2008 1 November 200816:54:01
Edward Carpenter - I had never heard of him till I read a review of a biography of him this morning. He was an amazing man.
31 October 200822:24:31
RIP Studs Terkel
30 October 2008 29 October 2008 28 October 2008 27 October 2008 26 October 200821:13:26
Clock change day always gives me jet lag.
08:58:26
Earl - some great unseen photos of a huge array of bands of all kinds here. Well worth a browse.
08:45:26
A current hot one but worth a link - penmanship
25 October 200822:59:25
Tenor Guitar : I met a man in a music shop today who was telling me stories about tenor guitars he had owned. (He also had 23 trombones, and a larger number of other brass instruments including a bass saxophone "in a cupboard")
22:54:25
David Grisman Quintet Dawg 90 : very nice indeed. Swings like a very swingy thing.
16:47:25
Listening to the Best of the Hot Club of Cowtown : a nice selection.
24 October 2008 23 October 2008
10:18:23
Dear god, I'm using Google Chrome this morning and am just horrified by the vile adverts everywhere. Adblock does a great job, and back to FF I go.....
10:14:23
This should rightly be on photoshop disasters, except it's probably a cut and paste disaster
22 October 2008 21 October 200810:31:21
Slide show - the Yosemite shots are great.
20 October 200813:17:20
Music Lists - so much to disagree with that you may never leave. Several my all time favourite albums are on the "Forgotten" list
11:36:20
I just came across the LA Under Cover weblog, however I read the URL as Launder Cover and thought it was about cleaning....
17 October 2008 16 October 200809:09:16
I wonder if these are the same civil war cards we got in the UK? I have some in a box in the attic. Along with a complete set of Man from UNCLE cards!! (and some swops)
09:06:16Great stuff (via PCL Linkdump)
15 October 200821:09:15
I am subscribed to 5 feeds in Google Reader where I am the only subscriber.
18:17:15
Did any UFOs appear over the Alabama that used to be in the Southern Hempisphere? Thought not.
17:37:15
On the sick today - no voice to speak of
14 October 200818:53:14
Ugh, flu-ishness. No voice
13 October 200812:26:13
Recently several people with comcast addresses have emailed me : comcast is refusing to accept my replies for some bogus security reason, so that's why I you haven't heard back....
11 October 2008 10 October 200817:21:10
Firefox is refusing to uninstall extensions. How annoying.
08:48:10
To Blaydon Jazz last night to see Vasalis Xenopoulos with the Paul Eddis Trio. Very good night. He's a great technician and a bit of a crowd pleaser - loves to play quotes. Ruth Lambert got up and did a couple of songs with the band too.
9 October 200819:25:09
Ken Perlman gave a concert today in the University. Played a nice Ome banjo. It was good.
8 October 2008 7 October 2008 6 October 2008 5 October 200822:13:05
A bit silent last couple days - been shipping child 2 off to university (cambridge) this weekend.....
2 October 2008
23:13:02
I just got the strangest spam : "Hello, Lindsay!
I think that your site is fantastic, and I'm using it for a mineral brochure that I have to do for school. I found EVERYTHING that I needed, except for the chemical formula for Zircon. Please post the chemical formula, complete with what the elements are, not just initials, and then your site would be even better! I love using sites written by real people, so please, keep writing about science topics, because you sound really smart, and by the looks of your site, I think you are! Please e-mail me back before tomorrow, because it's due tomorrow!"
09:20:02Good stuff (via Geekologie)
1 October 200823:16:01
The InterTubes seem to be clogged in places tonight - some sites are just crawling.
09:14:01
How very true (one of the reasons that I don't like Neal Stephenson's books)
30 September 200814:28:30
"Advancing the scholarship of liberty in the tradition of the Austrian School" What on earth does that mean? Hitler was an Austrian of course.
29 September 2008 28 September 2008 25 September 2008 24 September 2008 23 September 2008 22 September 2008 21 September 200809:56:21Take me back to Tulsa Nice steel and fiddle, note the altered lyrics...
20 September 200821:16:20
Jazzy Clips (via PCL Linkdump)
13:42:20
I just discovered that MS don't make the trackball explorer anymore. Bummer - mine is getting a bit clunky and it's the best trackball I've used.
19 September 2008 18 September 2008 15 September 200822:57:15
intermitency will be in force. Transferring offspring to far flung places of education
14 September 2008 13 September 2008 12 September 2008 11 September 2008 10 September 2008 9 September 200813:50:09Swing Voters - nice harmonica
6 September 200810:15:06
What horrible weather. The power went off this morning and I can't recall the last time that happened, if it has happened at all whilst we've lived in this house.
4 September 2008 2 September 2008
21:00:02
I'm liking Google Chrome
1 September 2008 31 August 2008 29 August 200815:15:29Nice Jazz Mando (with added accordion goodness too!)
28 August 2008 27 August 200810:15:27
Dimensions - the least exciting commentary ever, but interesting.
09:51:27
So why did nobody tell me the date index buttons down the lefthand side didn't work?
09:19:27
Integration with Outlook - or "you can send the files we create by email"
26 August 200819:50:26
RIP Don Helms
24 August 2008 22 August 200810:07:22
Went to Blaydon Jazz CLub last night to see Zoe Gilby - abolutely superb. If you get the chance to see her take it - she will go far I believe. The band were fabulous too - some of the best local jazz players (David Carnegie (d), Mark williams (g), Paul Edis (p), Noel Dennis (t & f), Andy Champion (b)) : go and see any of them too.
21 August 2008 20 August 200809:36:20
I like the banjo playing on this. (Of course I like everything else as well : nothing like a good old bit of "medium swing")
09:29:20
We haven't had any Minor Swing for a while.... one of my favourite mandolin players too - Paul Glasse.
17 August 200809:30:17
16 August 2008 15 August 200811:47:15
Good Grief. Words fail me.
14 August 2008 13 August 200821:49:13
Joe Pass fest : All the things..., Donna Lee (ridiculously fast, with NHOP), Oleo (same NHOP session I think)
10:06:13
I am getting increasingly annoyed by all the references on the web to the man who is "digitizing vinyl" (I linked to him the other week). I'd be very surprised indeed if there was the slightest hint of vinyl in most of the records he's done so far!
10:06:13
I am getting increasingly annoyed by all the references on the web to the man who is "digitizing vinyl" (I linked to him the other week). I'd be very surprised indeed if there was the slightest hint of vinyl in most of the records he's done so far!
09:23:13I Hear the Blues - most excellent indeed
12 August 200813:36:12
I'm feeling all shaken today - pranged the car a bit this morning. Not really sure what happened either. Ugh.
11 August 200816:56:11Foot Guitar - impressive, but he is using an open tuning.
09:27:11
RIP Isaac Hayes (check out the outfit!!!)
23 July 200821:03:23
Well, I see the Platonic Solid of Peace (or if you are in flatland, the Quadrilateral of Quietude) is being wheeled over. So.........
22 July 200821:41:22
Well, everybody else has linked to it today : font conference
21 July 200809:16:21
How it all began (warning - background music)
20 July 200820:45:20
What is the opposite of riot?
19 July 2008 18 July 2008 17 July 2008 15 July 200809:05:15
I just got spam that began "Hello not the man familiar to me".....
14 July 200811:46:14Interesting (via Pink Tentacle)
13 July 200809:57:13
Art Supplies (Via Neatorama)
11 July 200822:21:11
iPod Touch update checker is still saying 1.1.4 most of the time with occasional bursts of 2.0 and then silence.
21:00:11
Bacon salt - J-Walk probably mines this stuff in his back yard.
10 July 200815:05:10
I can't find a flickr duplicate detector anywhere. I may have to write one *sigh*
11:44:10
Someone came up to me at Newcastleton and gave me this. Nearly 30 years ago in the Bridge hotel in Newcastle. I look to be in pain. In fact it looks like I am singing which is highly unlikely since I don't. Jane Ball playing the accordion and David Ball in the corner, I think. The others I can't place at all.
9 July 2008 8 July 200822:24:08
Hmmm, google seems to be inaccessible.
7 July 2008 6 July 200822:00:06
Newcastleton festival this week end just gone. Not so great weather but a stonking session on Saturday. I might even put up some audio.
4 July 200809:06:04
Give vaccines - buggy : I was asked what Mound was most like and one of the options was Mound so I chose it and it was wrong, but generally fairly easy. I am at level 10, don't know it there is a higher one.
3 July 200820:01:03
Hah : at Tom the Dancing Bug it says : "Search engines love the strip because this paragraph contains the words mp3, iphone, webkinz, videos, american idol, ashton kutcher, grand theft auto."
19:40:03
RIP Lyall Watson
2 July 200809:29:02
Twitter is well screwed this morning. Not even the Fail Whale
1 July 2008 30 June 2008 29 June 2008 28 June 2008 27 June 200823:15:27
I'm trying google reader. Not sure yet. Should I worry that when the recommended sites I might like doesn't include my own?
13:43:27
ah, Chet Baker. Good stuff.
25 June 2008 24 June 200821:51:24
I think I must be becoming humour impaired - loads of people are describing this as hilarious and I didn't even smile. Not once. I can't see anything to recommend it.
17:01:24
Rhythm Changes - the Muppet theme and the Flintstone's theme
09:08:24Focus from 1973 - either the track is out of sync or it is very badly dubbed. We all looked like that in 1973 too. (well, not the women obviously), though I think we had a bit more hair.
23 June 200808:52:23
RIP George Carlin
22 June 2008 21 June 2008 20 June 2008
14:12:20
Is it just me or is anyone else slightly underwhelmed that they found ice on Mars?
