We’ve been wincing in Downtown Los Angeles.
Tag Archives: music
Despair, death and destruction at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. We’ve been listening to Wagner and spying on friends.
darn it
Looks like I won’t be swaying to the sound of Keane next month. Bummer.
Russia comes to the Hollywood Bowl
Courtesy of a German conductor. This weekend has been Tchaikovsky-tastic at the Hollywood Bowl: two nights of the Russe with fireworks. The evening started rousingly with T’s Cossack dance: your steroetypical populist folksy tune made classical. It set the scene for a evening of entertaining cheesiness. Now, don’t get me wrong. I lurve Tchaikovsky, and […]
Hammer for Free
Not so much one that bangs nails into walls, but one called the Armand Hammer Museum in LA. (Not the Arm and Hammer, as misunderstood by a friend. In-joke for those who live in the States.) The museum has had a summer of free-ness. Free rock, free exhibitions, and now, free jazz. We had a […]
Dancing till Dusk
We’ve been away. And now we’re back to the crazy heat of LA. It had been impossible to do anything in the daytime for at least a fortnight until it finally cooled off last weekend. Which meant the weather was finally to my taste, and we could hit the beach. Manhattan Beach for a change. […]
CDs, tapes, LPs, MP3s; they all have a place in my life
Have today’s teens even touched an LP? Proof my family is weird #567: My dad threw out all his records when cassette tapes became popular, instantly regreting it years later when the quality started deteriorating. And when CDs first appeared, he immediately jumped on the digital bandwagon, and re-purchased his favourite Gramaphone records. This meant […]
Deaf rockers
From the BBC: White noise. Yeah, they’d have to be deaf to put up with their own music. I don’t have much of a problem with my portable music levels, although I’ve had to stop listening on the bus due to the super-high background noise levels. A pair of those fancy schmancy ear plug/buds is […]
music/muzak
On many online things, I’m a real late-adopter. So, three years after the inception of Audioscrobbler, I’ve joined in. Like wonderful electric, my collection isn’t much to brag about (actually, his is rather better than mine). Perhaps if I was willing to take more risks and download music via torrent-like apps, I’d have a better […]
The new Milli-Vanilli?
These lip-synching videos, starring the Back Dormitory Boys are just too good not to share (via wonderful electric, who’s been doing some of it himself in airports). These guys have a blog, but it’s in Chinese. (Use Babel Fish to translate…)
akatsuki ra-ra-ra 