Archive for November, 2009
Outliers
2009/11/23Joke Template
2009/11/21“Three people of different nationalities walk into a bar. Two of them say something smart, and the third one makes a mockery of his fellow countrymen by acting dumb.”
“Three blokes walk into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.”
“How many members of a certain demographic group does it take to perform a specified task?”
“A finite number: one to perform the task and the remainder to act in a manner stereotypical of the group in question.”
Riding Brad Childress’s Refusal to Wear a Motorola Headset to the Top of the Internetd
2009/11/21I did a little bit of research on why Brad Childress doesn’t wear the Motorola headset, but I still think it’s something to do with their press conference backdrop sponsor Samsung.
http://www.startribune.com/sports/vikings/55956672.html?elr=KArksi8cyaiU9PmP:QiUiacyKUnciatkEP7DhUr
Update 12/7 The people of the internet are really starting to get curious…
Vikings Coach Brad Childress staunchly refuses to wear the league-mandated Motorola headset.
"Brad, what's the real reason you don't wear the Motorola headset?"
The Band
2009/11/19There’s a lyric in this song that goes “Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me “Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee.” But according to Wikipedia, Robert E. Lee was never in Tennessee ( in fairness, Robbie Robertson never had Wikipedia). Initially, I thought “well that’s too bad, that a song this perfect, is marred by a historical inaccuracy.” But then I thought about it some more, what Robbie meant by that phrase, and realized I was wrong. Robertson knew exactly what he was writing.
Ralph J. Gleason (in the review in Rolling Stone 1969): “Nothing I have read … has brought home the overwhelming human sense of history that this song does. It seems impossible that this isn’t some traditional material handed down from father to son straight from that winter of 1865 to today.”
Songwriter Robbie Robertson claimed that he had the music to the song in his head but had no idea what it was to be about. “At some point [the concept] blurted out to me. Then I went and I did some research and I wrote the lyrics to the song.” Robertson continued, “When I first went down South, I remember that a quite common expression would be, ‘Well don’t worry, the South’s gonna rise again.’ At one point when I heard it I thought it was kind of a funny statement and then I heard it another time and I was really touched by it. I thought, ‘God, because I keep hearing this, there’s pain here, there is a sadness here, it’s a kind of a beautiful sadness.”
Who
2009/11/18
La Blogothèque
2009/11/18Chryde, founder of the website La Blogothèque, wanted to shake things up and find another way to share music and Vincent Moon wanted to film music differently. Chryde offered Moon to go and film musicians in Paris. The so called Take-Away Shows (or the French title Les Concerts a Emporter) exist since April 2006. The large amount of clips is the result of a very fast filmed process with mostly one take recordings.
