Jazz: The Music of Unemployment: For a moment, my heart leapt with joy

Saturday, August 09, 2008

For a moment, my heart leapt with joy

I saw the headline and did a double-take:

Coalition move gathers momentum: President's impeachment

I know, I know. (When I first saw the story a day or two ago -- in a version that had the national qualifier in the headline, so there was no mistaking -- I guessed that this confusion was bound to happen.)

Anyway, stupid me.

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An introduction

A sampling of some of the better things I have written for this blog:

"We are the world, and we suck" (on the death of Michael Jackson)

"I forgot to remember to write this post" (on Elvis Presley)

"The world we have lost" (on the fetishization of audio media)

"...the adventure ends" (on the IJG east coast tour, January 2007)

My interview with Brian Watson of the LA-based jazz / new music group Watts Ensemble

My interview with Rob Waller, of the LA-based country band, I See Hawks in LA

A post about how my elementary school students listened to new jazz

"RIAA breaks guitars, and music in general" (a response to the Joel Tenenbaum case)

Posts on the IJG Netherlands tour (2007): part one, part two, and part three

"No one dances in New York" (my response to a Nate Chinen critique of the IJG)

"The impossibility of the avant-garde" (a brief critique of the idea of revolutionary art)

"The wages of profanity and political commentary" (about how it is still possible to go too far in jazz)