Category Archives: Diary
Vegetable Music
My girlfriend’s mom tipped me off about this guy in Japan who makes instruments out of vegetables. His YouTube channel is worth visiting, just to experience the tonal varieties of cucumbers, carrots and mushrooms. Here he is doing a quartet … Continue reading
Dancing Fool
“Would you like to dance?” Outside of old movies and reruns of Happy Days, that’s a question that you don’t hear much anymore. You didn’t hear it much when I was a kid either. I have a vague memory – … Continue reading
Harper Simon – “Berkeley Girl”
If anyone has the right to sound like Simon & Garfunkel, it’s Paul’s son Harper. Not that he necessarily wants to or tries to. In fact, when Harper’s lovely, but mostly overlooked album came out in 2009, he spent a … Continue reading
The G Word
With apologies to all those who think Eminem is a genius, I’m sorry, but I just don’t get it. A guy in a hoodie and oversized pants who is wealthy beyond belief pacing around the stage, gesturing with his hands … Continue reading
Songs As Puzzles
The writer Dave Eggers says that one of the reasons we listen to songs over and over is to figure them out. The implicit comment there is that once we solve the puzzle of a song, it will start to … Continue reading