February 2010
The Mission Three play "BBQ" live at El Rio SF
3 February 2010, 08:50
Three/four years ago while first looking for washboard players on the web I stumbled on the website of Jimmy Sweetwater which is filled with good music and pictures of cool washboards
Cell Phone Fun/Aggravation...?
6 February 2010, 11:54
When it comes to cell phones I’m pretty cheep, nothing smart around here plus I prefer a netbook for traveling, especially considering the cost of a phone internet connection in this country. Nevertheless, since my three year old one is showing signs of use and my contract was up for prolongation I stopped by the company’s local outlet to check out their offers.Sure enough, for the symbolic sum of 1 swiss franc an all new fancy 6303 was passed over the counter. Which is satisfactory I hope, we’ll see when I get the next bill since there are a couple of irremovable links to the web that are there to push if you don’t watch out, plus the fact that depending on the application, you don’t know if you’ll end up there or not… Isn’t society’s drive to consume fun! Forget to lock the keyboard and there goes your next vacation…
News Of The Week... & The Woogie Board!
10 February 2010, 13:55
Sorry, haven’t had much time for the blog lately. Had to fix the MBR in my netbook (eee 1000HE XP) and booting the windows installation CD ended up with that infuriating error message where all stops before the choice for Recovery Console showed up… This after a month of trying to borrow an external CD player as to not have to buy one, finally buying one, booting the installation CD and…. (need a mad red smiley here, in fact this blog needs smileys!) I had stuck EasyPeasy 1 in it, which worked fine, but upgrading to 1.5 just caused too many issues. Bummer, guess I just don’t have the patience right now. Out it went!..
Journey to the Moon by William Kentridge
13 February 2010, 10:47
Enjoy!
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I was browsing through one of last month’s…
$5 off $40 Coupon! Just this week.
13 February 2010, 14:24
Eugene Chadbourne & Paul Lovens
16 February 2010, 10:29
This dynamic duo is coming to town tonight just down the street at the…
Dave in New Zealand (Again)
24 February 2010, 21:04
If you happen to be in Auckland why not check out our favorite Crawfish Blues Band band leader and divawho will be giving a few concerts here and there. Two are mentioned in this flier and there are more to come.Meanwhile while the cat travels the mice play…
Thursday Night Jammed
28 February 2010, 15:08
Yesterday I took the excuse of meeting an art consultant who had recently contacted me to head down to Geneva and check out the jam at the BAG – Geneva’s Blues Association – something I had been wanting to do. As luck would have it however I hadn’t really check out who was participating and earlier this week had already learned that the few I knew wouldn’t be there. Never mind, in any case I was planning to eat with and old friend and hoped he would tag along for company.
Of course or perhaps out of habit I also visited a few galleries and as one little chat lead to another, ended up late in meeting my friend. We had a beer but he wasn’t interested in listening to a blues jam, and in fact dragged me to the ==Les Enfants Terrible, a curious furniture creation/repair and wine shop/bar that has a live act every Thursday, and could possibly be a place to play with CBB. Two acoustic guitarist where singing inaudible songs due to atrocious acoustics and a noisy crowd…
Post-Hysterical: Timeline, Comics and a Plurogenic View of Art History
28 February 2010, 18:18
Friend, artist and art historian Mark Staff Brandl has posted the video of a 55 minute speech he presented at the CAA (College Art Association, art historians organization) annual conference, as well as at the Kunstschule Lichtenstein, in 2010. It concerns description and criticism of the standard conceptions and models of fine art history and the history of comics, while offering a new one model for conceiving of and teaching these histories:
Post-Hysterical: Timeline, Comics and a Plurogenic View of Art History.If you’re like me and art history always made you want to puke, it’s probably because you had one of those horrible teachers that unfortunately seem to pollute the trade; …and just look at how luscious the fruit bowl is in this painting… Ugh!…
