Ah, so much to talk about. First off, since this blog now functions as "New Stuff" for memphisevans.com I will note the new charity added to the list of charities to which I donate ALL gross money received from my musical career. See "Church World Service" at this page.
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Had a wicked cold the last few weeks so have done no new recording. Transferred some old cassette stuff to digital though, including some Pete Rivard demos that he may have forgotten about but that I think MS7 could do well with. Also a bizarre c.1996 cover of Lennon-McCartney's "Goodbye" that I recorded because they never recorded it and Mary Hopkins' hit single of it seems to be out of print. I have never heard a recording of the song (except mine) but have the sheet music in one of my three Complete Beatles books, all of which have slightly different criteria for completeness and thus different songs.
Also recently contacted a professional violinist about recording the parts for "Play", "Tap Dancer", and "Eddie Gee" that have been in my mind (and on paper) for literally years. Will mail her a CD and written music by the end of the week, assuming the CD burner I bought on eBay deftly replaces my old one, which seems to have totally failed.
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David Foster Wallace. In case you haven't heard, this masterful, genius writer seems to have hung himself last Friday. Why? Why do all the good ones do it? Why not the purveyors of raw sewage who dominate our culture? Why hasn't every member of Nickelback and/or Creed hung themselves? Why did Kurt Cobain choose suicide and not Gavin Rossdale or Rob Thomas? Come ON! Here we go. I'm angry now.
Top Ten People Who Should Have Hung Themselves Before David Foster Wallace:
10. Rush Limbaugh
9. the singer from Creed
8. Rob Thomas
7. Carson Daly
6. George W. Bush
Okay, that's probably enough. You get the idea. I'm not saying these people SHOULD hang themselves. They definitively SHOULD NOT. However, If the suicide bug had to bite DFW it should have bitten them first, and satisfied itself without hurting someone who could very well have produced more good work down the road.
Quite honestly TPWK wrote about this somewhat better than I.
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DFW's suicide is just depressing. I read a testament from a Pomona Student, whose grammar Wallace found wanting.
ReplyDeleteHe wrote on the page that it the student had presented some interesting themes, but that discussing them would be like discussing the weather over a bloody dead corpse. Brilliant, especially if you know Pomona students, w/r/t their use of grammar.