Sunday Morning Shards #23
On my mind and in the reading queue this week. The “Canadian Skye” edition.
*Christo’s Gates have been unfurled, in all their saffron glory, in Central Park. The New York Times has an appraisal.
*R.I.P Arthur Miller. What a genius.
*Why the future of music needs more bands like Wilco.
*The Future of Music Coalition is non-profit organization of musicians, technologists, policy makers and lawyers seeking to discuss these issues in an intelligent and rational manner. I signed up for their newsletter (via Scott Andrew.
*A profile of Philip Seymour Hoffman that doesn’t use the word “pudgy.” How refreshing. (via Heath Row).
*Instatone is a HotorNot-style database of unsigned musicians and songs. Last.FM strikes me as a better way of discovering new music as it filters based on what you already like. But I’m open to other points of view (via Large Hearted Boy).
*The New York Public Library’s Home Library Kit. Comes with databasing software.
*AlterNet give an in-depth look at the acendancy of the right wing.
*Howard Dean will lead the Democratic Party. Anyone found any news analysis of this?
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