David Adler
On Jen Shyu
My review of Jen Shyu’s Jade Tongue, in the current Time Out New York.
A Vulcan moment
From Star Trek, “Errand of Mercy,” 1967: Capt. Kirk [immediately following a Klingon surprise attack]: “Well, there it is. War. We didn’t want it, but we’ve got it.” Mr. Spock: “Curious how often you humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.”
Remaking America
The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c Changefest ’09 – Obama’s Inaugural Speech Barack Obama InterviewJohn McCain Interview Sarah Palin VideoFunny Election Video This Daily Show spot pokes fun at Obama’s Inaugural Address for containing rhetoric similar to that of former President Bush. (Ah, former President Bush.) Yes, Ha Ha and all that. But seriously, the
100 blogs
Thanks to Jessica Merritt of Distance Learning Net for including Lerterland in a list of 100 top musicology blogs. I’m not a musicologist — more a music-ologist, I suppose. But I’m glad to be represented.
“…we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.”
Words fail. Although Barack Obama’s words certainly didn’t. Congratulations, Mr. President. We fought hard for your victory and we’ll fight for your continued success. God bless.
The week on disc (35)
In case you missed the last one… Gary Morgan & PanAmericana!, Felicidade (CAP) Michael Jefry Stevens Trio, For Andrew (Konnex) Greg Reitan, Some Other Time (Sunnyside) Jerome Sabbagh, One Two Three (BEE Jazz) Enrico Rava, New York Days (ECM) Pete Sommer, Crossroads (Capri)
“We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt”
A fitting economic metaphor for our times, from the famous 1963 speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the great moral teacher of the American 20th century. Black Power icons such as Assata Shakur, so hallowed by today’s politicized hip-hop artists and others, have worked hard to discredit King’s vision as a course of meekness, of do-nothing, of turn-the-other-cheek. It’s
The call of conscience
Lasantha Wickramatunga, editor of Sri Lanka’s Sunday Leader, has been gunned down by assassins on motorcycles. Steve Coll has published a long, extraordinary statement from Wickramatunga in anticipation of his own death: It is well known that I was on two occasions brutally assaulted, while on another my house was sprayed with machine-gun fire. Despite the government’s sanctimonious assurances, there was never a