my morning...e e cummings style
Current mood: exhausted
thursdsay, october 12, 2006
i fell asleep in the shower thismorning
and dreamt of you
in technicolor
with subtitles
just for a moment
until the sharp hot needles of the shower head
brought me reluctantly back
running late for work again...
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Saturday, October 7, 2006
writers block
writers block
Current mood: sleepy
Category: Writing and Poetry
saturday, october 07, 2006
this evening's blog stands as a testament to my utter and complete writers block this weekend...blah.
Currently listening:
A Ghost Is Born
By Wilco
Current mood: sleepy
Category: Writing and Poetry
saturday, october 07, 2006
this evening's blog stands as a testament to my utter and complete writers block this weekend...blah.
Currently listening:
A Ghost Is Born
By Wilco
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
Concertino for Cellular Phones and Orchestra
Concertino for Cellular Phones and Orchestra
Current mood:inspired
Category: Music
october 03, 2006
when i was a senior in college i took what ended up being one of my favorite classes of my entire college career - it was History of Jazz and it was taught by David Baker (renowned jazz musician, composer, music director for the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, nominated for both a Pulitzer Prize and a Grammy). Each Wednesday this enormous storage room/classroom in the basement of the music building would be packed to the gills with students. Only about half were actually approved to sit in on the lecture each week, and each week I had to struggle to find a free desk. I saw people snuggle up to a wall joint, perch on choir steps, kneel between desks, just to hear this man talk. He had the most wonderful voice - soft and gravelly - and he would tell stories, name-dropping legendary musicians while relating bits of history and explaining drink preferences as they all gathered at some smoky club or hole in the wall. Dr. Baker would pace, shoulders hunched, gray suit pants uncreased - I never saw the man sit down. i was in awe...
The reason i bring this up? the man continues to impress...i caught a story on Newswise.com - and followed the trail back to a press release that IU Media relations put out concerning Dr. Baker's newest piece - debuting the 1st and 2nd of this month to kick off the 20th anniversary season of the Chicago Sinfonietta under the direction of Maestro Paul Freeman. The piece, entitled Concertino for Cellular Phones and Orchestra, by all accounts is to be a lively piece designed to not only encourage, but require audience participation. How will this work??? the concertino calls for audience members and members of the orchestra's percussion section to make user of their cell phones at various specified points throughout the piece. They intend to divide the audience into different sections and then cue the sections with red and green lights. Audience members will also be encouraged to experiment with the volume and ring tones, while the orchestra will also be working strains from recognizable ring tones into their work as well.
Sound chaotic? definitely. but i'm intrigued and think that the combination of the orchestra's staid presence and the cell phones normally intrusive sounds will complement each other well.
Baker had some must read quotes within the various articles I found...i'll just toss them in below...classic Dr. Baker.
"There's a wonderful balance between [chaos and organization] because that's how our lives are" he said. "Moving from the known to the unknown is very exciting"
"Cell phones inevitably awaken memories. It's kind of like a sonic perfume" (on how certain sounds around the audience can impact how they hear music and spark the mind)
"It's like a jazz piece. Once you've established the basic form of the piece and the tempo, then you don't know. I do know that very little happens for me when I'm in a passive environment" (on his uncertainty of what to expect with the music starts and the phones start ringing)
Baker, with over 2000 compositions under his belt admitted that this piece took the longest not just to write but to conceptualize.
"It think some people would think it is insane to even think about trying to combine the cacophony of cell phones with the pristine purity, sometimes, of an orchestra".
But what if no one participates?
"Girl, my heart stops just thinking about it," Baker says. "It would be like your soloist didn't show up for your concerto"
If anyone finds a sound bite on this out there - send it to me - i'm dying to hear it.
Current mood:inspired
Category: Music
october 03, 2006
when i was a senior in college i took what ended up being one of my favorite classes of my entire college career - it was History of Jazz and it was taught by David Baker (renowned jazz musician, composer, music director for the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, nominated for both a Pulitzer Prize and a Grammy). Each Wednesday this enormous storage room/classroom in the basement of the music building would be packed to the gills with students. Only about half were actually approved to sit in on the lecture each week, and each week I had to struggle to find a free desk. I saw people snuggle up to a wall joint, perch on choir steps, kneel between desks, just to hear this man talk. He had the most wonderful voice - soft and gravelly - and he would tell stories, name-dropping legendary musicians while relating bits of history and explaining drink preferences as they all gathered at some smoky club or hole in the wall. Dr. Baker would pace, shoulders hunched, gray suit pants uncreased - I never saw the man sit down. i was in awe...
The reason i bring this up? the man continues to impress...i caught a story on Newswise.com - and followed the trail back to a press release that IU Media relations put out concerning Dr. Baker's newest piece - debuting the 1st and 2nd of this month to kick off the 20th anniversary season of the Chicago Sinfonietta under the direction of Maestro Paul Freeman. The piece, entitled Concertino for Cellular Phones and Orchestra, by all accounts is to be a lively piece designed to not only encourage, but require audience participation. How will this work??? the concertino calls for audience members and members of the orchestra's percussion section to make user of their cell phones at various specified points throughout the piece. They intend to divide the audience into different sections and then cue the sections with red and green lights. Audience members will also be encouraged to experiment with the volume and ring tones, while the orchestra will also be working strains from recognizable ring tones into their work as well.
Sound chaotic? definitely. but i'm intrigued and think that the combination of the orchestra's staid presence and the cell phones normally intrusive sounds will complement each other well.
Baker had some must read quotes within the various articles I found...i'll just toss them in below...classic Dr. Baker.
"There's a wonderful balance between [chaos and organization] because that's how our lives are" he said. "Moving from the known to the unknown is very exciting"
"Cell phones inevitably awaken memories. It's kind of like a sonic perfume" (on how certain sounds around the audience can impact how they hear music and spark the mind)
"It's like a jazz piece. Once you've established the basic form of the piece and the tempo, then you don't know. I do know that very little happens for me when I'm in a passive environment" (on his uncertainty of what to expect with the music starts and the phones start ringing)
Baker, with over 2000 compositions under his belt admitted that this piece took the longest not just to write but to conceptualize.
"It think some people would think it is insane to even think about trying to combine the cacophony of cell phones with the pristine purity, sometimes, of an orchestra".
But what if no one participates?
"Girl, my heart stops just thinking about it," Baker says. "It would be like your soloist didn't show up for your concerto"
If anyone finds a sound bite on this out there - send it to me - i'm dying to hear it.
Monday, October 2, 2006
say ahhh...
say ahhh...
Current mood: frustrated
october 02, 2006
whatever happened to trust?
Currently listening:
Are You Gonna Be My Girl?
By Jet
Current mood: frustrated
october 02, 2006
whatever happened to trust?
Currently listening:
Are You Gonna Be My Girl?
By Jet
Friday, September 29, 2006
intelligent erotica
intelligent erotica
Current mood: quixotic
Category: News and Politics
friday, september 29, 2006
"For something to be truly erotic, it doesn't have to be explicit," According to Sam Roddick (owner of London-based upmarket lingerie retailer Coco de Mer) "True eroticism is having your sexual imagination inspired as opposed to confronted." -(as related in a recent article found on iht.com)
Look how far our advertising has come...or rather...the UK's advertising has come. While we here in the States are still struggling to overcome the stigma of talking bull frogs in beer commercials, lingerie ads abroad are taking cinema veritae to whole new level. That's right - lingerie ads. Earlier this month, Serena Rees and Joseph Corre of Agent Provocateur in London released the first of a four-part series of short films featuring Kate Moss wearing their lingerie on the company's Web site Agentprovocateur.com. They're lingerie ads in black-and-white, art-house-style. The films are being hailed as "much a mini-thriller as it is erotica." and "far more cerebral and the mood more tasteful" that what has been seen in the past. The shorts were shot by director Mike Figgis (think 'Leaving Las Vegas' and some early Sopranos episodes) The us's victoria secret strutters can hardly be considered evocative in the face of such campaigns. Grandfathered into acceptance by way of edgier ads before it (an Elle Macpherson Intimates commercial which apparantly aired in New Zealand two years ago, in which a lingerie-clad model knelt on the floor to clean up blood after she had caressed a set of carving knives. Kind of makes the Angel club look alittle amateur-ish now doesn't it?) these new Agent Provocateur ads are designed to turn you on AND make you think. what a novel concept!
And get this, these new Agent Provocateur shorts were only played in cinemas after getting banned by British television networks, but went on to become the most downloaded music-related viral e-mail ever, according to a poll organized by online viral monitor Boreme.com. (again - citing iht.com for those a stickler for the details!!)Successful as it was for Agent Provocateur's buzz factor then, the raunchy days of pop stars mounting bucking bronco bulls and brash, in- your-face monologues are in that company's archives. Arty, thoughtful erotica is now in.
now if only we could get these pesky reality tv series to 'Man Up' (thanks nicki) perhaps we could elevate more than just our lingerie ads to coffee-house-level-intelligence...
Currently listening:
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
By Wilco
Current mood: quixotic
Category: News and Politics
friday, september 29, 2006
"For something to be truly erotic, it doesn't have to be explicit," According to Sam Roddick (owner of London-based upmarket lingerie retailer Coco de Mer) "True eroticism is having your sexual imagination inspired as opposed to confronted." -(as related in a recent article found on iht.com)
Look how far our advertising has come...or rather...the UK's advertising has come. While we here in the States are still struggling to overcome the stigma of talking bull frogs in beer commercials, lingerie ads abroad are taking cinema veritae to whole new level. That's right - lingerie ads. Earlier this month, Serena Rees and Joseph Corre of Agent Provocateur in London released the first of a four-part series of short films featuring Kate Moss wearing their lingerie on the company's Web site Agentprovocateur.com. They're lingerie ads in black-and-white, art-house-style. The films are being hailed as "much a mini-thriller as it is erotica." and "far more cerebral and the mood more tasteful" that what has been seen in the past. The shorts were shot by director Mike Figgis (think 'Leaving Las Vegas' and some early Sopranos episodes) The us's victoria secret strutters can hardly be considered evocative in the face of such campaigns. Grandfathered into acceptance by way of edgier ads before it (an Elle Macpherson Intimates commercial which apparantly aired in New Zealand two years ago, in which a lingerie-clad model knelt on the floor to clean up blood after she had caressed a set of carving knives. Kind of makes the Angel club look alittle amateur-ish now doesn't it?) these new Agent Provocateur ads are designed to turn you on AND make you think. what a novel concept!
And get this, these new Agent Provocateur shorts were only played in cinemas after getting banned by British television networks, but went on to become the most downloaded music-related viral e-mail ever, according to a poll organized by online viral monitor Boreme.com. (again - citing iht.com for those a stickler for the details!!)Successful as it was for Agent Provocateur's buzz factor then, the raunchy days of pop stars mounting bucking bronco bulls and brash, in- your-face monologues are in that company's archives. Arty, thoughtful erotica is now in.
now if only we could get these pesky reality tv series to 'Man Up' (thanks nicki) perhaps we could elevate more than just our lingerie ads to coffee-house-level-intelligence...
Currently listening:
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
By Wilco
Thursday, September 28, 2006
me time (not a haiku, but small and true nonetheless)
me time (not a haiku, but small and true nonetheless)
september 28, 2006
Current mood: lonely
i found the prayer card from grandma rossi's funeral in my purse yesterday. corners worn, patina dulled over the virgin's face from where i thumbed it throughout the funeral, and occassionally, from the confines of my change purse, when i was nervous throughout the work weeks to follow. soft shush of the paper against my calluses as i palmed the reminder stung the corners of my eyes as it hadn't since the burial. brought to mind spumoni in fluted glass dishes, stacking magazines under shoot-the-moon when my brothers weren't looking, threadbare dancing elves hiding behind the ornaments at the holidays. biting the side of my tongue sharply brought a small jolting cleansing pain and i replaced the card again again between layers of receipts and business cards and folded envelopes with shopping lists hastily scrawled on them.
Currently reading:
Naked
By David Sedaris
september 28, 2006
Current mood: lonely
i found the prayer card from grandma rossi's funeral in my purse yesterday. corners worn, patina dulled over the virgin's face from where i thumbed it throughout the funeral, and occassionally, from the confines of my change purse, when i was nervous throughout the work weeks to follow. soft shush of the paper against my calluses as i palmed the reminder stung the corners of my eyes as it hadn't since the burial. brought to mind spumoni in fluted glass dishes, stacking magazines under shoot-the-moon when my brothers weren't looking, threadbare dancing elves hiding behind the ornaments at the holidays. biting the side of my tongue sharply brought a small jolting cleansing pain and i replaced the card again again between layers of receipts and business cards and folded envelopes with shopping lists hastily scrawled on them.
Currently reading:
Naked
By David Sedaris
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
*yawn*
*yawn*
september 27, 2006
Current mood: exhausted
i am a lazy cat...stretching in a sunny spot. a night of great sex is a miracle cure-all... i hear it improves balance too... (wink)
september 27, 2006
Current mood: exhausted
i am a lazy cat...stretching in a sunny spot. a night of great sex is a miracle cure-all... i hear it improves balance too... (wink)
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