It took me a long time to realize how much of a Dave Grohl / Foo Fighters fan I am. The track A Matter of Time from this album is a masterpiece, as are These Days and Walk. This video is of the band playing through the album straight through, all 49 minutes of it, [...]
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Vancouver Canucks Win the NHL 2010/11 Regular Season
A beautiful way to celebrate the Canucks’ 40th anniversary year: their first President’s Trophy ever. Congratulations, boys! Next up, the hard-fought path to Lord Stanley’s Cup. Please note: I’ve moved my active blogging over to a new site, called Jason Clarke – Infinite Bass Line. I will leave this site up indefinitely, but if you’re [...]
President’s Trophy Curse My Ass! « jimmyslims
Tim LaHay: If history is any guide, the team that leads the NHL in regular season points is four to five times more likely than any other team in the playoffs to make it into the Stanley Cup finals, and seven to eight times more likely to win the Cup. My good friend Tim warms [...]
Conjoined twins that can share thoughts?
From Macleans.ca – A piece of their mind: They are the rarest of the rarest of the rare. Tatiana and Krista are not just conjoined, but they are craniopagus, sharing a skull and also a bridge between each girl’s thalamus, a part of the brain that processes and relays sensory information to other parts of [...]
Enthusiasm
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. – Charles Kingsley Please note: I’ve moved my active blogging over to a new site, called Jason Clarke – Infinite Bass Line. I will leave this site up [...]
The Upside of Irrationality
Boingboing reviewed Dan Ariely’s new book, The Upside of Irrationality, and it sounds like it’s a worthwhile follow-up to Predictably Irrational: My favorite is the section on adaptation, that is, the way in which both terrible pain and incredible delights fade down to a kind of baseline normal over time. Ariely points out that adaptation [...]
Yet another reason to like Radiohead
What do you do if you’re the lead singer of a huge rock band at a huge rock concert, and you notice an audience member has lost consciousness? Some people would say, “The show must go on.” But Thom Yorke of Radiohead clearly believes that caring for people that need it is more important than [...]
The greatness of kindness
In the world, what counts more than talent, what counts more than energy, or concentration, or commitment, or anything else, is kindness. And, the more in the world you encounter kindness, and cheerfulness — which is its kind of amiable uncle, or aunt — the better the world always is. And all the big words: [...]
Recordings, old and new
You know how they say playing music is like riding a bike? Well, it is and it isn’t. I’d like to say it’s been years since I played bass with any regularity, but the truth is that somehow it’s been years since I played it virtually at all. Even so, this morning I took my “vintage” (okay, [...]
Kenny G, accurately described
But when Kenny G decided that it was appropriate for him to defile the music of the man who is probably the greatest jazz musician that has ever lived by spewing his lame-ass, jive, pseudo bluesy, out-of-tune, noodling, wimped out, fucked up playing all over one of the great Louis’s tracks (even one of his [...]