Aisle Be Seeing You

My SPAM friends #214

I've said it before, I'll say it again:

"BU YATAK BAK YATAK."

It's one's closest friends that can say the things that truly need to be said.

Updated blogroll

Regular readers (I know you're out there) may have noticed that the Aisle Be Seeing You blog roll on the right panel has migrated. I have added a few blogs and categories to the list and put them all on their own page, here.

Bloggers, if you don't see yourself there and think you should be listed, drop me a line.

Stephen Hough's dandy blog: Cadenza

Just to prove that Aisle Be Seeing You takes your intellectual needs seriously and isn't only about shilling for the Celebrity Series (I mean, it is, of course, just not exclusively), I want to share with you a funny, informative, and gently irreverent little blog I just found by pianist Stephen Hough (who isn't even on the Series this season, though he has been on it before and will likely be on it again at some point though I'm not in charge of that so don't ask me).

Cadenza, as the blog is titled, is housed on the web site of the Telegraph newspaper and  has recently wrestled with (or merely pointed at) such topics as the sign banning guns in a Minneapolis concert hall, a poem composed about pronouncing Hough's surname, the pianists Shura Cherkassky, Glenn Gould and Vladimir Horowitz, and the relative merits of sparkling vs. still water.

If you think this blog is the best thing you have ever read (hi, Mom) then you will want to seek medical advice before reading Cadenza to be sure you can handle the upgrade ...

Aisle Be Seeing You is all a-Twitter...

Now feeding you at: http://tinyurl.com/pvg8wk.

Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my SPAM friends

Today's comment spam:

"I am very enjoy your blog, your blog is very true of the bar, hoping to see you more exciting content! I wish you have a happy day!"

It is very true of the bar. It's about time somebody noticed.

Six figures

 

I'm not bragging (boasting? yes, bragging? no), but this blog recently registered its 100,000th page view.

It will also celebrate its third anniversary on August 15 (OK, I'll celebrate, the blog will do whatever it does when I'm not looking). Maybe I'll hire a clown or something...

Amanda Baggs: "In My Language"

Aside from the ideas Amanda outlines in this video, and which she communicates better than I can (and which are the real point here), my discovery of her blog gave me the clearest sense I have yet had that new technologies can actually open up worlds of communication and interaction that were previously closed to us (closed to us for a number of reasons, including our own stupidity). In short, maybe internet-based web 2.0-type technology can live up to the hype. Check out more of Amanda's videos on YouTube and her blog.

Make Ink Like a Monk

Now you know what to do with all that acorn gall...

Ever wanted to write like Leonardo da Vinci or J.S. Bach? I mean write the same way they wrote? (I'm sure you're already writing brilliant things) Follow this link and learn how to make medieval ink using things like acorn gall. Really.

Thanks for the umpteenth time, to BoingBoing.net.

Matthew Guerrieri on Strauss, Mahler and Midnight Cowboy...

Strauss and Mahler Re-Enact Your Favorite Movie Moments, by Matthew Guerrieri on Soho the Dog. Good stuff.

Welcome to the blogoshpere, Gardnerites!

Our friends at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum have launched a weblog called Before and After, and I'm trying to think of a proper welcome. Should we roast a pig or something?

In today's post, Phil James talks about shakuhachi music, as he'll be playing solos and duets with koto player Cathleen Read in the courtyard at After Hours tomorrow evening, September 20, from 5:00-7:00pm as part of a "Journey to the East" program highlighting Asian art in the galleries. The shakuhachi is a bamboo flute, for those of you who don't already know, and since some of you are likely curious about this instrument (I hadn't thought about the instrument in years...don't I have a shakuhachi record somewhere?) or want to know more about James, let me recommend: Phil James' Nyokai-an Shakuhachi dojo web site (there's a shokuhachi .mp3 on the front page), his electronic music site, 9revolt, a blog about the shakuhachi, Shakuhachi Chamber Music International, and the International Myspace Shakuhachi Society. All places I would not have thought to visit before Before and After put me on the path to enlightenment.

In any case, though there are few posts as yet, it's a lovely blog, very nicely designed (fine! raise the bar!) and I have reason to think, will be consistently well written. Check out Before and After, and tell 'em Aisle Be Seeing You sent ya'!