Archive for August 2011
I usually do my nonstop listening of The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings of John Coltrane on September 23 (duh, Coltrane's birthday). While it might seem like a self-imposed annual ritual of sort, it's really more like a superb excuse to shower myself with those less-familiar alternate takes of Coltrane's Giant Steps and daydream about that Trane's masterpiece would eventually become the number-one-hit on that jolly elevator-music-top-100-chart. This year,...
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A motion snapshot of Perry Ellis tags / Size M / Size S / Size M / Size M / addicted to barcodes / why?
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Our beloved diabolus in musica has been kind enough to pay my inner ears several unsolicited visit after my afternoon reading session through a fascinating thread relating to the Diminished Scale in Jazz Guitar Group Forum few days ago. Believe me, diabolus in musica won't be winning the most-gracious-guest-award anytime soon. He kept reharmonizing my Philip Glass study scores with that knotty diminished triad and criticizing every single Johann Sebastian...
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A quick photo of wine corks of Alice White and Black Swan wine recycled from my friend’s trashcan / Alice the Kangaroo looked a bit lonely / P.S. Please drink responsibly.
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Sapp Bros. Truck Stops have been serving truckers and travelers since 1971. Their coffeepot logo began as a plain water tower, providing water supply to the original truck stop. After adding the coffeepot handle and pour spout, the coffeepot quickly became a recognizable landmark at the junction of I-80 and highway 50 west of Omaha. This giant coffeepot photo was taken at their Percival, Iowa location.
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Last Thursday, the gang gathered together in Miss Q’s basement to do our usual weekly jam session night. Miss Q’s basement is fully-furnished with a cool retro-see-through refrigerator (stocked with IZZE sparkling juice and Fuji spring water), an X-large comfy orange-color sofa big enough for an elephant to take a nap, and all-you-can-eat Miles Davis LP collection to go with a very nice pair of speakers from Cambridge SoundWorks. In...
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