Lady Day: The music and sad life of Billie Holiday
Michael Gallagher I have been listening a bit recently to Billie Holiday and am generally enamored of her voice. So, I read some more about her life if only to see where…
October 2009
10.10.2009 Song for the Day: Boy Eats Drum Machine
I won’t explain it much except to say that Boy Eats Drum Machine is a one-man group from Portland, Oregon. It has me bopping around the apartment on a Saturday…
Data Visualizations for Twitter & Facebook, Nostalgia and More
The above are a series of data visualizations for my Twitter account showing some of the types of traffic that one can expect there. I find Twitter especially useful for…
Most Content Moment of My Life #5: Insadong (인사동), Manduguk (만두국) and Jen
We were returning for a visit in December, 2008, and just went through the whole town for 9 days visiting all our old favorite restaurants for lunch and dinner. It…
Marlene Dietrich’s View of the World (as filtered through Mercedes Benz and Elton John)
I love this song. Marlene Dietrich pulls a lot of Teutonic emotion out of her limited voice, rich and frail at the same time. It is full of nostalgia and…
This week is about learning
I have had a fairly good week, full of productive thought and action. I have listened and learned both formally and informally. I have thought of those loved and lost…