12 Aug 2002
Mon, 12 Aug 2002
Travel in my future?
Chinese take-out. Fortune cookies. "You will step on the soil of many countries."
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Mark Pilgrim discovers Ian's Favelets
Some really useful stuff for web developers from Mark Pilgrim. Especially handy is the one that lets me run my site without the CSS, simulating what low end browsers see in the process. Cool. Bryan, are you listening?
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NY Times on Eva Cassidy and the Rebirth of Black Rock
The NY Times has a wonderful article on Eva Cassidy: 'But Cassidy still did not get much airplay in the United States, then or now, only isolated radar blips. One of the more significant of those occurred during the Winter Olympics in February when Michelle Kwan skated her exhibition routine to Cassidy's version of Sting's "Fields of Gold."'
The fact that Cassidy didn't get much airplay here is a good example of just how sad the US music business is, paricularly FM radio. Cassidy was a throwback in many ways, having soul and emotion oozing out of her, something that's sorely lacking in a lot of the material that gets primetime airplay here.
This is a sentiment that was echoed by another NY Times piece on the rebirth of black rock in the US: '"I could do my thing over a hip-hop beat," Mr. Luther said, seeming to speak for the movement. "But when I do it my way, with these guitars and solos and breakdowns, you actually feel the gospel spirit from which I'm speaking, and the music talks to you in a different place."'
I only wish I was in New York so I could go check these guys out. I'll bet they'll be huge in Europe. Go figure.
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