Aug 12th 08
Posted by David in Amazing, Music
Gotta chance to see King Crimson last night at the Keswick. Wow! Very powerful very loud show. Great performance with the Version VII line up. The 2 drummer attack was great.
King Crimson at the Keswick Theater 8/11/08
Here is the set list
01 Drum Duo
02 ConstruKction Of Light (ConstrucKtion of Light)
03 Red (Red)
04 Frame By Frame (Discipline)
05 Neurotica (Beat)
06 Three of a Perfect Pair (Three of a Perfect Pair)
07 The Talking Drum (Lark’s Tongue)
08 Larks Tongues In Aspic II (Lark’s Tongue)
09 One Time (Thrak)
10 Drum Duo
11 Dinosaur (Thrak)
12 Level Five (The Power To Believe)
13 Sleepless (Three of a Perfect Pair)
14 VROOM (Thrak)
15 Coda: Marine 475 (Thrak)
16 Soundscape
17 Drum Duo
18 Thela Hun Ginjeet (Discipline)
19 Elephant Talk (Three of a Perfect Pair Discipline)
20 Indiscipline (Discipline)
And Tony Levin has posted a crop of photos and notes at his site.
Jul 28th 08
Posted by David in Amazing
I think this maybe my favorite from the list.
2. He made thieves think twice. According to a TV Guide piece on him, Fred Rogers drove a plain old Impala for years. One day, however, the car was stolen from the street near the TV station. When Rogers filed a police report, the story was picked up by every newspaper, radio and media outlet around town.
Amazingly, within 48 hours the car was left in the exact spot where it was taken from, with an apology on the dashboard. It read, “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”
15 reasons Mr. Rogers was best neighbor ever – CNN.com
Jul 26th 08
Posted by David in Amazing, Geek
Nasa has released its photo archives to the public in conjunction with The Internet Archive. It is an extremely impressive set of WOW
Check it out : http://www.nasaimages.org/
Feb 25th 08
Posted by David in Amazing, Books
Michael Chabon’s Yiddish Policemen’s Union continues to break them rules. His alternate-history detective novel The Yiddish Policemen’s Union is the first novel ever to get nominated for an Edgar award (for mysteries) as well as a Nebula (for science fiction.)
Feb 7th 08
Posted by David in Amazing, Books
I have mentioned before my involvement in Bookmooch, a book trading site. Yesterday I received a hardback copy of Pattern Recognition by William Gibson. That is cool. It is in great shape – even better. But the real kicker – it is signed by William Gibson. Here are the photos as exhibits A and B
Reviews? Remember you promised…
I sure did. I also had work get the better of me yesterday and I am writing a longer review so that is also slowing my down. Soon.
