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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Bunnies, Zubaz Pants, and Hgiyiyi
Amazon.com can be a carnival fun house if you know where to look. Consider a customer-submitted picture of an adorable baby bunny, its little face tucked into its paws, its fluffy ears drooping. U MAKE BUNNY CRY accuses the caption. … Continue reading
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The Making of an Audiophile Musician
Sometimes it’s fun to connect the dots. Every longtime and successful musician is a spatter of influences, memories, experiences, passions, inheritances, absorptions, rejections. My particular spatter suggests Jackson Pollock more than Georges Seurat. Just figuring out what kind of musician … Continue reading
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Once Upon an Album Dreary
Nonesuch H-71291 has been a highly regarded album since the 1970s. Consider this rave: This LP has been on the TAS (The Absolute Sound, a magazine for audiophiles) list for years. It consists of very modern percussion compositions by a … Continue reading
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Inflation
Just in case you need guidance, I'm the guy on the left in the picture above. It was taken around 1985 or so — i.e., when I was just a bit over 30 years old. I couldn't have weighed more … Continue reading
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Busy Beaver
I’m not sure that I even want to do this. The idea, having insinuated itself into my consciousness, pecks at me, like a yappy dog or a frustrated spouse. There is nothing for it but to carry out the deed … Continue reading
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The Limits of Anal Retention
I haven't the slightest problem admitting to being a bonafide, Type A, full-court-press anal retentive. I keep my flatware neatly arranged in a Rubbermaid silverware organizer, and if any of the neat stacks of forks or spoons tip over, I … Continue reading
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Update, Schmupdate
It can’t be that I’m getting old. No way. Losing my edge? Nonsense. Manifesting the hyper-caution of the elderly? Poppycock. Afraid of anything new? Horsefeathers. But I’m thoroughly fed up with software updates and their resultant havoc. These days I’ve … Continue reading
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Gerhardt at the Movies
Back in the 1970s ace record producer and conductor Charles Gerhardt blessed posterity with a series of LPs that remain touchstones for quality audio and spiffy presentation. No Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, or Tchaikovsky here, though: these were albums of meticulously … Continue reading
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