It appears New York Times writer and Time Out New York music editor Steve Smith is the latest victim of the Siren Twitter's call.But what is this? My heart be still: it looks like he's going to Tweet about receiving CDs in the mail and getting off the phone with interviewees! Does it make me the Biggest Publicity Nerd in the Land if that's the best news I've heard all week? Showered with beauty by today's mail: new CDs from Christopher Tignor, Peter Garland, John Luther Adams, Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola.12:30 PM Apr 6th from web Just off the … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2009
Tintillating
(From Tyler Green's Modern Art Notes blog)Take a gander at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston's rockin' "Rivals in Renaissance Venice" microsite:Intriguing, informative, and aesthetically-pleasing. Triple-threat!Will Schirmer's new SchirmerOnDemand have cool e-musicologists - or perhaps even e-versions of the composers themselves?? - guiding us through their scores? My registration is pending, but Molly Sheridan has her review of the site here. … [Read more...]
Bette Davis is probably lying
I'm on a use-me-and-abuse-me kick. I want to be pitched more when I'm inside venues, in case you didn't get the message here and here. I saw the movie Sunshine Cleaning two weekends ago, and for the first time was interested in every single film that was previewed. They were, in order, Sleep Dealer, Brothers Bloom, Cheri, Adventureland, 500 Days of Summer, The Soloist (but only because I spotted the back of Esa-Pekka Salonen's head in the preview and got excited), and The Limits of Control. I anticipated that the "Feature Presentation" would be … [Read more...]
After Eight
I roll my eyes at myself when I write about manicures, facials, etc. on this blog, so I can only imagine how you all react. That said, there's no use pretending I'm something I'm not, so, onward...I got a facial at a lovely little shop called Ling on the Upper West Side a couple weeks back. Turns out, the place was a hotbed (hot...compress?) of good marketing ideas. At one point during the facial, the woman Wendy asked how I'd heard about Ling. "New York Magazine", I said. A listing in New York Magazine? "No, a friend-of-a-friend works there … [Read more...]
In which ‘The Guardian’ is as usual my hero
From The Guardian today: Consolidating its position at the cutting edge of new media technology, the Guardian today announces that it will become the first newspaper in the world to be published exclusively via Twitter, the sensationally popular social networking service that has transformed online communication...A mammoth project is also under way to rewrite the whole of the newspaper's archive, stretching back to 1821, in the form of tweets. Major stories already completed include "1832 Reform Act gives voting rights to one in five adult … [Read more...]