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Last night I finally achieved a goal I've been doggedly pursuing for - well let's just say "too long." I've got Band-in-a-Box (BIAB) running under Wine (MS Windows emulation) in Ubuntu 7.10. I've been dual-booting Windows and Linux on my IBM Thinkpad T40 for quite a while. One of the main reason I've needed to subject myself to the ugly and soul-less world of Microsoft has been to use BIAB.

Photo by ChasingFun

Gimmie some risk takers. Gimmie Torquil Campbell. Take those pop song formulas and turn them on their ear. Belt it out like an unabashed balladeer at and then turn around and channel psycho killer-era-David Byrne.

I caught Stars on the second of two sold-out performances at Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco. From first thumping notes of In the Beginning After the End, which prefaced the band's entrance on a darkened stage,

The Bigfoot Lodge on Polk Street, San Francisco, CA

Since I recently started working on my flute doubling, this post by Dries Buytaert (of Drupal fame)...

A friend of mine just posted the video from this amazing concert that I attended in September at the JazzSchool in Berkeley, CA.

...read on for personnel...

This weekend I bought a Whisper Room model 4260 used off of Craigslist. A good time to make this purchase is when you are between girlfriends. Girlfriends will invariably tell you that sound isolation booths - especially Whisper Rooms - are ugly. And, well, you have to admit that they have a point.... So I'm patting myself on the back on the timing of score. Perfect size room, great price, the guy even delivered it to me! When the next unsuspecting girlfriend wanders buy, I'm thinking that I can argue that the room is a pre-existing condition. A good idea, in theory at least...

The Loose Salute on MySpace

Purchase album with no DRM

Sala de Estar: Sabor!

Here are some files that might be useful in reviewing the set:

• Dat_Dere_120.mp3: Band in a Box file converted to mp3 (play along)
• Dat Dere.mp3: Cannonball Adderley "Them Dirty Blues"
• Little B's Poem.mp3: Bobby Hutcherson "Components"
• Little B's Poem_100.mp3: Band in a Box mp3(play along)
• November 15th_145.mp3: Band in a Box mp3 (play along). Piano plays the kicks in the C section.

Maybe these notes will be turned into a real posting later:

LIKES
(Artist, Song)
Jim Bianco, Hansome Devil. Tom Waits. Accordian, castenets, trombone (trumpet?). Parisian cafe. Beautiful female vocal interlude.

Spigga, Human. What is not to like? (Except, perhaps, their band name...) Rap en espanol yet way retro funky. Stripped down Ozomatli...

Scott Amendola, Oladipo. Berkeley in da house. Just a clip...boo. Sounds promising. Lilting funk that doesn't hit you over the head. I want hear more.