Lovely little collection of jazz quotes at photomatt.net .. some of my favourites being:
Playing bop is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
(.. implying that you need to get rhythm down to score well?)
Those songs to me don’t exist, you know? “So What” or Kind of Blue, I’m not going to play that shit, [...]
Some fascinating pictures of foot binding on Yahoo at the moment, in particular this one. Toes by heels underneath your feet 0_o Great piece about it all here.
Iain Paisley sat next to Sinn Fein what the hell is going on? Not fully side by side though, let’s not get too carried away [...]
This story is really quite odd, and how it ever came to be passed as legislation makes no sense whatsoever..
Only the EU could have created a situation where people who are not farmers are paid not to farm.
The stories accompanying the pictures here are wonderful .. this one especially. The man with a wink [...]
Found a great blog showcasing some of the best and least appreciated music from around the world .. no idea where the name is from though .. they’ve some great Indian fusion kindofthing made in the seventies, or thereabouts, by an Australian band called Kanguru here, and some great ‘psychedelic afro funk’ (perfect description) by [...]
Seriously, will anyone ever tell Vladimir Putin their true thoughts on that fruitful democracy of his?
Smooth Russian connection:
Saw Regina Spektor at the Shepherds Bush Empire on the 23rd, she was fantastic. Her songs are full of bizarre scenarios and character profiles and odd happenings and everything fits together so perfectly it’s as if she [...]
We Will Be Pilots are offering their first EP This Is What You Fight For for download on their website. It’s really quite good and .. free music! Take a look.