Bela Fleck and the Flecktones! Monday, February 25, 2008 at: Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, Oregon

My good friend Eric and I were pretty excited to see what Mr. Fleck and the Flecktones, playing together with a full-sized orchestra, would come up with for our musical enjoyment. I am generally unfamiliar with Bela’s music [ more … ]

The Joshua Redman Trio performing

Where: Crystal Ballroom, Portland Oregon

The Theme (upon reflection by this reviewer) : “Space and exploration, with overtones of understatement”

(Instead of writing a prosaic, structured review of the evening I have decided to give you my notes, as a tribute to Joshua’s fluent, poetic, post-bop compositional and saxophone styles. Enjoy — [ more … ]

Read a great article today on Salon.com entitled “Rock vs. Jazz” by Gary Kamiya. As you would expect from Salon: a well-penned, thoughtful piece — this time exploring the author’s love of both genres, sparked by Herbie Hancock’s recent grammy award for his tribute album to [ more … ]

My newest “discovery” (in the Columbian sense of the word) is the Remember The ABA website. Featuring some real classic material for would-be hoops historians, my favorite part of this site is the Only in the ABA section, which highlights some of the more vaudevillian moments [ more … ]

Fun — I just learned about the ‘Bank of the Universe,’ website, where you can print out a blank check (from the universe of course), fill in any amount you like — and viola!

The idea behind the blank check is, of course is visualization; after writing the amount of money on the check [ more … ]

This must be one of the all-time funny Shaq moments, although there are many. All the talk about the big fella lately, and I found a link to this video from Bill Simmons (one of my favorite writers) on ESPN.com. Its Shaq singing the theme from Cheers, around the time the Lakers [ more … ]

Finally my dream came true, I am appearing in comics! Well actually I made a ‘retro’ comic book-like panel from a photograph of myself, using this tutorial and Photoshop. Awesome baby. Let me know what you think of it. Perhaps I’ll make more… [ more … ]