USB Drive Mix Tape

 I’ve given and received a lot of mix cds, but I’m nostalgic for the age of cassettes. Cds seem so cold, and yet I no longer have a working tape player, so mix tapes wouldn’t work any better. Enter the USB drive mix tape– a cute one-hour drive you place inside a tape. Check it out at Perpetualkid.com– it has good pictures, though currently out of stock. I’m sure you can find it other places, as well. Good idea for a casual Valentine’s Day present (too bad I’m a month late) or to bring to a sick loved one.

Some Random Favs

1. Untitled, 2. Midi & the Modern Dance, 3. Cut Trees, 4. Jack, 5. shot up abandoned car – Arizona ’06, 6. Untitled, 7. The Gang, 8. Day 297, 9. Untitled, 10. GREEN EYES, 11. W A G A S A : Kyoto, 12. Kallisti

Hiroshige

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Ear Candy: Ysaye – Violin Sonata No. 5 (Zehetmair)

Christian Ferras Plays Sibelius

If nothing else, watch the second movement! I know next to nothing about Ferras’s recordings, but I’m going to check out EMI.

Ear Candy – the Sibelius!

Alice In Wonderland

1. reading under a tree, 2. 2007-05-02-12-59-12.jpg, 3. After several paces, the floor of the first cave ended abruptly in a deep, black pit., 4. mischa falling, 5. Untitled, 6. Poison comes in many forms………, 7. Pont-Rouge Symphony Orchestra! )), 8. Mushrooms – Connecticut, 9. smile , 10. Tea time with a silver cat, 11. 30 Summers, 12. Choir at Villa Pisani Maze, 13. Black Tiger, 14. Belgium – Brussels, 15. Elizabeth I, age 14

My copies of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass were published in 1946. I also have the annotated edition, which has lots of fun trivia. I did a nine page paper on Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (AKA Lewis Carroll) and his works in middle school. Can you explain the mathematical allusions he made in the first book? I can.

Ear Candy: Louis XIV – Hey Teacher

Cupcakes

1. soft pink roses, 2. Monster Cupcakes I, 3. Funky punky Cupcakes =P, 4. build a ROBOT cupcakes!, 5. 100_1931, 6. mini chocolate cupcakes 1

Ear Candy: Paganini – 24 Caprices: No. 4 (Michael Rabin)

Roses

1. Rose, 2. A Vogue on a Flower, 3. Almost Perfect, 4. (Neo-)Classical Amsterdam – Red Roses, 5. Roses, 6. Julia’s Gift

Ear Candy: Radiohead – Motion Picture Soundtrack; Nude (one of my all-time favorites)