Monthly Archive for May, 2008Page 2 of 7

DangerMouseBeck

Published
by
michael lee
on 12 May 2008
in asides and audio
. 15 Comments

Anybody else excited by this? Modern Guilt, Beck’s final studio album on his major label contract, produced by Danger Mouse of Gnarls Barkley, dropping in, perhaps, June?

Giant Steps

Published
by
michael lee
on 12 May 2008
in art and culture and audio
. 27 Comments

Courtesy of Stick. Enjoy the insanity. My favorite part of this record is how Tommy Flanagan, the pianist, basically just gives up on trying to solo over the changes and Coltrane has to bail him out.

Would you like some fries with your cheezy gratitude?

Published
by
Sharolyn
on 11 May 2008
in asides, current events and life
. 10 Comments

I’ve never really liked Mother’s Day.  Apparantly I’m not alone - the founder of it didn’t either.

Downtime

Published
by
michael lee
on 11 May 2008
in asides
. 0 Comments

Sorry for the downtime - I upgraded the PHP5 software language that the site runs on, and it ended up breaking everything all to hells. Welcome back, my blogging friends.

commercial break

Published
by
June
on 10 May 2008
in art and culture
. 3 Comments

I thought I’d offer up a “commercial break” to the coverage of The Dailies studio recording process by inserting another piece from my show…then it occurred to me: thanks to blessed Tivo, nobody watches commercials anymore. Hmmm. So, I guess I’m just barging in the studio door during everyone’s moving moment and inappropriately blathering on about art. Again.

Here is what I wrote about this piece (called “Chirp”) in the program for the show: “With this piece, I intended to depict the actuality that culture’s rules and dictums are externally set and that our participation has approved and denied paths and that the choice then, as independent, culture-producing entities, is to negotiate within the existing models and dominant fashions. KIDDING! I do find find something as common as the image of birds landing on my patio to be quite profound though. (And, I felt like I should say more than “Birds are cute. I like painting them.”)”

I have plenty of thinky thoughts about art, but opted to be fairly unassuming in my program notes…this is Meadow Vista after all.

The person who bought this piece at the show said “I started to read what you wrote about this and was like ‘what is this crap?!’… and then…Oh.”

I was kind of sad to see this trio of birdies go…I rather like them.

Now, back to your regular programming.