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May 03, 2004
I'm loving it - to do these things that aren't necessarily elfin.
Shaolin Soccer isn't a total leave-your-brain-at-the-door film, but anything you know about physics can safely stay home and water the plants while you're gone.
Alice & Friends should be open today, as the sign on the door had "Saturday May 1" crossed out and replaced with "May 3" yesterday evening.
Warren Ellis, despite ample evidence to the contrary, really does love you all and offers links to free comics, specifically his first issue of Ultimate Fantastic Four, due in shops June 16th. Also, Ministry of Space #3 should be along shortly. If you have anything to say about the delays in the latter, or about returning to working at Marvel/doing superhero comics regarding the former, feel free to express these no doubt fascinating thoughts somewhere else. Because you're not doing it here.
If hopping into a live volcano feels right, I say do it.
Tune in to WTIM Talk Radio, 97.3
(if you're in Taylorville, Decatur, Springfield and surrounding areas)
For "Open Line"
An interview with Abigail Garner
about her book "Families Like Mine:
Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is."
Tuesday, May 4, 2004
9:10-9:30am (Central Time)
Turn your speakers up: East Current - March 23, 2004 - Shakuhachi and Koto Performance. Yes, you missed the show a while ago, but the page does have a brief sample of one of their performances. Just to make you regret having missed them that much more, I suppose.
Dozan Fujiwara and Mieko Miyazaki are acknowledged in Japan as young masters of their instruments, and it was obvious from the first notes of the concert that they deserve every whit of acclaim they have achieved.Fujiwara coaxes ethereal, seemingly other-worldly tones from the shakuhachi, a bamboo instrument vaguely resembling a recorder or wooden flute. But the extraordinarily subtle sounds that Fujiwara can produce on an instrument of such modest design, from bent pitches that defy traditional Western scales to gentle tones rivaling the expressiveness of the human voice, transcend listener expectations.
Miyazaki is at least as dexterous on koto, a plucked-string instrument that, on this occasion, at least, played mostly an accompanying role.
"These instruments are very simple," Miyazaki told the audience, between selections.
But what alluring timbres and sophisticated ideas these players articulated with these ostensibly rudimentary tools.
From a (registration-required) Chicago Tribune write-up of the performance I saw back in March, which seems much longer ago than it was.
And that's the state of my brain right now.
More or less.
Posted by Aaron at May 3, 2004 11:22 AM
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