Nealist:
i forgot to tell you last time we spoke....this is the new bar you can expect to spend many a chill night at...

here's a short list of its perks:
1. no tvs
2. chill ambiance, with great jazz music
3. amazing beer bottle selection, featuring a bunch of rogue and quebec beers, belgians, craft brews, etc.
4. back patio with tables and chairs, to drink AND smoke simultaneously
5. it's right down the street from our house (like a 2 min bike ride, i'm not kidding)
6. the most important thing about it: THEY HAVE SHUFFLEBOARD.....inside....the....bar.....AMAZING!!!

so, just FYI: I'll be challenging yer ass to some shuffleboard matches when you hop back across the big puddle.

[over&out.]

Quoted: Weegee's Bar....West Logan Square

Some pretty awesome shit on this blog.
thanks to Freezerhead for Pointing it OUT.

anyone read this?

Quoted: "Anyone who has ever gamely tried and failed to absorb, enjoy, and--especially--understand the complex works of Schoenberg, Mahler, Strauss, or even Philip Glass will allow themselves a wry smile reading New Yorker music critic Alex Ross's outstanding The Rest Is Noise. Not only does Ross manage to give historical, biographical, and social context to 20th-century pieces both major and minor, he brings the scores alive in language that's accessible and dramatic.

Take Ross's description of Schoenberg's Second Quartet, "in which he hesitates at a crossroads, contemplating various paths forming in front of him. The first movement, written the previous year, still uses a fairly conventional late-Romantic language. The second movement, by contrast, is a hallucinatory Scherzo, unlike any other music at the time. It contains fragments of the folk song 'Ach, du lieber Augustin'--the same tune that held Freudian significance for Mahler. For Schoenberg, the song seems to represent a bygone world disintegrating; the crucial line is 'Alles ist hin' (all is lost). The movement ends in a fearsome sequence of four-note figures, which are made up of fourths separated by a tritone. In them may be discerned traces of the bifurcated scale that begins Salome. But there is no longer a sense of tonalities colliding. Instead, the very concept of a chord is dissolving into a matrix of intervals."

Armed with such a detailed aural roadmap, even a troglodyte--or a heavy metal fan--can explore these pivotal works anew. But it's not all crashing cymbals, honking tubas, and somber Germans stroking their chins. Ross also presents the human dramas (affairs, wars, etc.) behind these sweeping compositions while managing, against the odds, to discuss C-major triads, pentatonic scales, and B-flat dominant sevenths without making our eyes glaze over. And he draws a direct link between the Beatles and Sibelius. It's no surprise that the New York Times named The Rest Is Noise one of the 10 Best Books of 2007. Music nerds have found their most articulate valedictorian. --Kim Hughes"

hey anyone know anything about this periodical JKS used to edit, or why people want it so bad?
now i'm curious and want to see it....

"Little known is John's greatest achievement to date - that of his time spent as co-editor (with Todd Scarth) of PLAP = Crap, an obscure but culturally revolutionary periodic publication in circulation in the early 90's. Copies currently sell on eBay for upwards of $1200 US, and are sought by underground publishing afficianados worldwide."

remember that movie "I Come In Peace", where Dolph Lungdren has to fight off those alien dudes who live off cocaine, and shoot those little razor discs off that device on their arm? this reminded me of that device kinda.

(see prev dot)

hmm, seems some labels aren't playing along....

as an aside, and while this is not surprising, it seems to be a sad but true fact that the discipline of Marketing is emerging more and more rapidly as the dominant capital-generating force in modern capitalism. i note this simply as I am impressed at the significance of the turn this q-trax represents...it signals the possibility that the multi-billion dollar recording industry could completely bend over and take it in the ass, and simultaneously walk away with almost exactly the same profit margins, simply by (and here's the shift i'm pointing to) BECOMING (or rather begin integrated into / reterritorialised onto) the advertising industry, which would assume all the capital-generating machines once assigned to the purchasing of music.

impressive.

Quoted: Three major record labels deny signing deals allowing their music to feature on a free file-sharing website.

a new music blog. lots of funk and stuff. seems cool.