I’m back in Piter for the year-end-vacation after a break of a year and a half and places, as always, change. Some changes are induced by collective destruction – the lack of snow in St. Petersburg now is probably to some extent due to global warming. However, other changes have direct causes. What really knocked…Continue reading back in piter
Copyright and youtube
The popular music scholar Philip Tagg has compiled information on how to file a counter claim if one of your movies is removed by youtube due to copyright complaints which are unwarranted. It can be found here: YouTube Counter Claims, etc.. The page also has a link to the article “Copyright versus the democratic right…Continue reading Copyright and youtube
two reviews published
two reviews i wrote this year were just published in the journal popular music (volume 27:1, 2008). the books i reviewed were: García, David F.: “Arsenio Rodríguez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music”, Philadelphia: Temple University Press 2006 Biddle, Ian; Knights, Vanessa (eds.): “Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location – Between…Continue reading two reviews published
pics of contemporary russia
here are some accurate pictures of contemporary russia 😉 www.wrecker.newmail.ru/www/russia.htm
grab shot at the digital story
one of the pictures i took while in new york this summer made it as the weekly grab shot at the digital story: The Digital Story: Grab Shot 123 – “NY Alley Lighting and Texture” 🙂
next gig with hotel desperado
my next gig with hotel desperado is friday, september 21st at verdensklubben (Krunch, Øresundsvej 14 ). cc: 50dkk/30dkk (members). more info at www.myspace.com/hoteldesperado or www.verdensklubben.dk
shana tova
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Rosh Hashanah recipes
Searching for good (almost) vegetarian recipes for Rosh Hashanah I stumbled across several interesting sites: In a Vegetarian Kitchen has a menu for Rosh Hashanah with Challah (Jewish Egg Bread), Seven-Vegetable Couscous, Carrot and Sweet Potato Tzimmes and Honey Cake Chabad is also sometimes good – they have four menus for Rosh Hashanah on their…Continue reading Rosh Hashanah recipes
USATODAY: “Israel’s ‘kosher’ cellphone testing appetite for growth”
oi vei is all i can say: Israel’s ‘kosher’ cellphone testing appetite for growth
NY Times: Still Married, With Children, but in Russian
while living in russia i saw the russian remakes of us-sitcom “the nanny” and thought that they were simply copied without paying copyright to the original producer (something not too uncommon in russia then…). how wrong i was. “the nanny” and also the russian version of “married with children” are licensed remakes: Still Married, With…Continue reading NY Times: Still Married, With Children, but in Russian
Book: Rock Culture in Liverpool
I just finished a book I should have read a long time ago: Sara Cohen’s “Rock Culture in Liverpool – Popular Music in the Making”, Oxford 1991. This book is one of the first ethnographies of local popular music production / a local popular music scene – and a very detailed one as well. Cohen…Continue reading Book: Rock Culture in Liverpool
Onion: “Hard To Tell If Wikipedia Entry On Dada Has Been Vandalized Or Not”
Hard To Tell If Wikipedia Entry On Dada Has Been Vandalized Or Not ZURICH, SWITZERLAND—The Wikipedia entry on Dada—the World War I–era "anti-art" movement characterized by random nonsense words,… need i say more… 😉