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i’ve been doing some reading on Jack Webb’s Dragnet. Webb was notoriously driven with regards to the series, and he controlled every part that he could. What I found surprising to learn, from an interview with Harry Morgan for the Archive of American Television, was that Jack Webb choreographed the exact pacing of the dialogue through the use of teleprompters. I would never have guessed it beforehand, but knowing that and watching the show is really remarkable. It makes so much sense and really illustrates the complexity of Webb’s vision. Also somewhat surprisingly, but kind of reassuring, Morgan described him as very professional and a pleasure to work with, showing that you can be totally obsessive and insane and still a good workmate.

The interview with Morgan drives me a little nuts because the interviewer just exhausts him and doesn’t really draw any information out gradually like i would expect him to, he just shotguns Morgan with questions. The man is 90-something years old in this interview, he’s not going to remember everything as though it were yesterday, and you have to ask him questions about things he’s interested in. Get the interviewee to reminisce!

When Jack Webb died at 62 his jazz record collection numbered over 6000.

I’m super excited about Thao Nguyen’s songs. I downloaded her album “Like the Linen” from itunes, and I think it’s definitely going to be a new favorite.

here’s a video of her in an SLC radio station:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–dnXzrXVpI

apparently some of the files in my mp3s/assorted directory were more publicly accessible than i intended, so they took down my whole mp3 directory including all of my stuff. just in case i guess?

Hello,

We have received a formal DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) notice regarding allegedly infringing content hosted on your site. The specific content in question is as follows:

http://www.papercanary.org/mcanulty/mp3s/assorted/Le%20Tigre/ Le Tigre
http://www.papercanary.org/mcanulty/mp3s/assorted/illinois/ Sufjan Stevens

The party making the complaint (Stephanie Elton — copyright@tgrec.com), claims under penalty of perjury to be or represent the copyright owner of this content. Pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 512(c), we have removed access to the content in question.

http://www.loc.gov/copyright/title17/92chap5.html#512

Dear Internet, why do I want to move to New York?

marienplatz is photogenic

first, a quick note: found a bootleg of the velvet underground playing right after the release of their first album, along with the first live performance of “sister ray.” fresh off the intarwebs, kids, and and full of heroin and amphetamines and even a new song (”i’m not a young man anymore,” certainly true today.) only a handful of people will listen to those mp3s, but each will go on to make their own mp3s…

anyway, can’t say i’ve been to many loft parties of late (i’m not even sure if munich _has_ lofts. beyond the cluster of artsy bastards living – well, now working only, since january 1 – in old barracks at domagkstraße [which i still can't pronounce], everyone else living on the cheap gets picturesque decaying altbau buildings.) history lies heavy here. munich’s celebrating it’s 850th birthday this year, which makes it at best middle-aged for a european city.

cities have such vivid personalities, sometimes (the lack thereof can be equally vivid.) the bits of berlin i saw were a contrast: ragged bits of real city mixed with something more anonymous built of sheet steel and plate glass. munich’s gentler and older, more personal and more forgotten. a boston to new york comparison would not be inappropriate: munich’s motto is “münchen mag dich” (munich likes you) as compared to new york’s “i [heart] nyc”. although there’s this electric eels quote that’s been bouncing around my head for aeons: “there is no better city to sharpen your skills than a city on the edge of failure,” and sometimes that seems like the right answer…

eh, but that’s all a lot of claptrap. someday, the cities will awaken, and what then?

nice interview with susan hockfield, she’s still so much more human than chuck vest. there’s a really reassuring bit where she talks about her personal scientific interests.

is the clean’s tally-ho!

Also I’m hoping to be in Boston late Wednesday night, and be around for nearly a week. There should be hanging out and music playing.