Archive for May, 2009

“Let go of the pickle” – Will Ferrell as Alex Trebek

I’ve been digging out from under my RSS feed today. Along the way, I “shared” some really excellent music posts, along with some other miscellany. Rather than post a bunch of links here, you can peruse in an easy-to-digest form at

http://www.google.com/reader/shared/04271642933913253294

Gauguin cut off his buddy Van Gogh’s ear with a sword in a drunken argument. Note to friend group: no sharp instruments allowed in the Lyon.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/was-truth-the-biggest-casualty-in-the-case-of-vincent-and-his-severed-ear-1678988.html

http://www.hearya.com/2009/05/11/hearya-live-session-46-blind-pilot/

Here’s a great article about how the banks are doing. I don’t fancy myself an economic analyst, but this was a fairly decent article, with great information if you check out the actual report. Check out the section on the left called “The Feds Report” if you’ve got some time and would like to throw up in your mouth a little. How did your bank fare?

“The government’s long-awaited “stress-test” results have found that 10 of the nation’s 19 largest banks need a total of about $75 billion in new capital to withstand losses if the recession worsened.”

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103914217&ft=1&f=1001

Well, I guess it’s about time I stopped lurking and started contributing.

So without further ado, here I am.  Blogging.  Fucking crazy.  How do I change my pw on this thing?  Surely I don’t have to remember the made up one they emailed to me.  If I do, you can consider this both my first and last contribution to the cooperative blog.

Now, this might come as a surprise, but I love street performers.  While in NYC recently I didn’t see any of the human statues who don’t move until you give them money, but we did see lots of musicians.  My friend Jessica explained none of them even came close to this guy.  This guy has serious skills.

But this was my question:  do you think his parents are extremely proud of what he’s done after thousands of dollars and hours spent on flute lessons or completely mortified?

Here it is….

The beatboxing flutist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXmeayaHh4U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crfrKqFp0Zg