Last night: a remarkable meal at Paul Liebrandt's (formerly of Atlas and Papillon) Gilt (housed in the former Le Cirque 2000 space in the New York Palace Hotel). It sometimes seems silly to talk about food, even more so when it is really good. But suffice it to say he manages to walk the razor's edge with his tasting menu, swerving from the opulent (table side service of a whole giant lobe of foie gras encrusted in a shiny shell of beet), to the sublime (a truly elevated use of spices reminding one how small our lexicon of these powerful adverbs has become.) Go if you can eat without check fear. Desserts and wine fail to live up to Liebrandt's cooking, so if not tasting and wine pairing, save on expenditure in theses departments. We went to Cru first to get our inebriation on (Gilt's list makes Cru seem like a dream bargain).
smells like new jersey
has anyone succumbed to lost? been hearing some interesting things. might be better on dvd.
ive been hailing mythbusters of late. two hour block presently on the discover channel.
comprehensive summary of abramoff scandal players from center for american progress. and not to be outdone, ariel sharon has his own gambling/bribery case brewing.
msn censoring chinese-language blogs
15 minutes of fame: web accessible archive of all US and Canadian news broadcasts from the first 15 minutes after impact one on 9/11. Actual archive is here although it appears to be down now (probably from the recent link on digg.com.)
Any tips for where I might find reviews of AAC ripping SW for PCs? (I'm late to the MP3 party, and think I'll go ahead and skip a generation.)
strangers with candy on com now
how often can you watch dumb and dumber? extreme houses on hgtv at 1
charlie is a great hangover listen. he actually uses the acu-playlist feature which updates in real time. hes also the only dj to play songs off of the dick shawn sings with the kids album i donated to the station. charlie, a real good comfort listen. happy new years. bloody mary morning ? -willie nelson (no relation)
soundtrack of the century: leslie gore 13 now
american art on ch13 now 2 - 4 pm
I know WATI isnt even a real news paper but how off the wall is Michelle Malkin ?
Billboard
allows you to get a birds-eye view of the Billboard Hot 100 by listening to all the #1 singles from 1958 through the millenium using a technique I've been working on for a couple of years called time-lapse phonography. The 857 songs used to make the piece are analyzed digitally and a spectral average is then derived from the entire song. Just as a long camera exposure will fuse motion into a single image, spectral averaging allows us to look at the average sonority of a piece of music, however long, giving a sort of average timbre of a piece. This gives us a sense of the average key and register of the song, as well as some clues about the production values present at the time the record was made; for example, the improvements in home stereo equipment over the past fifty years, as well as the gradual replacement of (relatively low-fidelity) AM radio with FM broadcasting has had an impact on how records are mixed... drums and bass lines gradually become louder as you approach the present, increasing the amount of spectral noise and low tones in our averages.
The spectral average of each song used in Billboard plays for one second for each week it stayed at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Thus we run about 52 seconds per year, for a grand total of a 37 minute sound work. The video image tells you what song was used to generate the current spectral average. Note that nothing of the original recording is used in this piece; everything that you hear is derived from a statistical algorithm applied to the original recordings. If you know the song used in the average, you may be able to sing the first few bars (or the main hook in the chorus) over the spectral average and find that you are quite in tune with it; in some cases, you may be surprised not to be.
Just now learned of Bob Denver's death. All obits I find mention an arrest for marijuana in 1998 but none mention an arrest for pot posession in the early 1970's. I swear I remember him being busted back then. Anyone know?
had to post this because of the odd arrangement of "artists" including my friend tilly.
"Geometric Issues in Contemporary Art"
Artwork by
Larry King, Herb Alpert, Anthony Quinn,
Leonardo DiCaprio, Emilio Pucci, Frank Stella,
Tillamook Cheddar, Chuck Close, Trova,
Little Mike Anderson, Sol Lewitt, Kurt Vonnegut,
Curated by Baird Jones
Friday, Dec. 30, 2005, 10:00 - midnight
Quo Nightclub, 511 w 28th St. (between 10th and 11th Aves.)
Private free vodka mixed drinks reception from 10 - 11:30 in the back VIP Gallery
Free admission for you and your guests from 10 until midnight by saying
that you are there for "The Geometry Show" and doorman Chris
talk about your backspin.. well, he is one oily motherfucker.
ritter me this
million dollar homepage
the corporation on sundance now.
kubrick on tcm starting now: lolita, 2001, strangelove, paths of glory.
