Modernity in a List

Legend Berlin Time/Montreal Time: Activity List 8:45am/2:45am: Wake up. Notice new headcold. 9:30/3:30am: Eat tasty German hotel breakfast with cool people from Paris and Davis. 10:30am/4:30am: Catch a cab to the airport. Drive by funky old looking monument. Ask in (very!) broken German what it is. Turns out it was a victory monument. I thought …

“Everything by Rage Against the Machine”

was the title of an essay I never wrote about Clear Channel’s banned songs list after 9/11/2001. That phrase appeared in a list of songs that were not to be played on Clear Channel stations. Rage was the only band to be completely banned. Though I imagine there wasn’t a lot of Jefferson Airplane or …

Latest CD Acquisitions

Study of Speech and Hearing at Bell Telephone Laboratories: The Fletcher Years Technical Memoranda Issued by Acoustics Research Laboratory, Harvard University 1947-1971 Let me tell you, there are some smoking tracks on these releases. — Tomorrow, I may actually break the country barrier and purchase a Neko Case CD. Technically, it’s already broken since we …