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do you flip?…recorded yesterday on my way home from work, edited this morning in starbucks.

I recorded several takes that sounded much better vocally, but in the end, none had the feel that the first take I recorded in mi phone. And David Byrne famously said “The better a singers voice the harder it is to believe what he’s saying.”

The lyrics for the song were taken verbatim from an email I received two days ago. I made a self-imposed rule that I could not change a word, and in and in a way that made it easier. The line “and thus have no record of the conversation” breaks the pattern: the ear is expecting to go back to the D chord but I had to hang on the Bb for an extra bar to get that line out. The Bb chord itself is not technicially in the key which is why it sticks out doubly.

I intended the music and words to always contradict each other, the lyrics being somewhat depressing and down while the melody goes up up up, ending on this really happy chord with a really sad lyrical bottom. That’s what I was trying to do and make it funny too.

The shoe is on the other foot.

Shoe Thrown At Iraqi Shoe-Thrower

You’re a weird guy, Jordan.

In 1962, John Ford’s ‘The Man who Shot Libery Valance’ was released starring John Wayne and James Stewart. This video is a dedication to Wayne’s role.

Firing Line (1966-1999) was an American public affairs show founded and hosted by conservative William F. Buckley, Jr. Although the program’s format varied over the years, it typically featured the politically conservative Buckley interviewing a guest and exchanging views, with the two seated together in front of a small studio audience. Guests were people notable in the fields of politics to religion, literature and academia, and their views could sharply contrast or be in strong agreement with Buckley’s. Most guests were intellectuals, and they were interviewed about ideas and issues of the day.

Reflecting Buckley’s talents and preferences, the exchange of views was almost always polite, and the guests were given time to answer questions at length, slowing the pace of the program. The show was devoted to a leisurely examination of issues and ideas at an extremely high level. Wikipedia

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I saw “We Live in Public” on Wednesday, documentary night at Stamford’s independent movie theatre “The Tre.” Here’s what I wrote in miphone walking home: In 1993 this guy started an internet TV channel allowing people at home to chat with the host on air, which you see  on every news show nowadays. He also predicted the whole social networking thing, but was 10 years too early, and he went down…hard. key takeaway: timing is everything.

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After watching “We Live in Public” I didn’t feel as guilty about filming the below…in public.

The director of “We Live in Public,” Ondi Timoner, also directed DiG! in 2004. From Wikipedia: “Timoner was simultaneously financing, producing, directing, and editing DIG!, which chronicles seven years of the lives of two neo-psychedelic bands, The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. After its release in 2004, the film won the Grand Jury Prize 2004 at the Sundance Film Festival, and is now part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.”

I am sitting in the new JetBlue lounge at JFK which is very cool, but any futuristic ambience is ruined by the blaring of Phil Collins’ “Something Happened on the Way to Heaven” or what Eno (below) refers to as “don’t worry, you’re not going to die” music.

…followed by Ricard Marx “wherever you go, whatever you do, I’ll be right here waiting for you.”