Fate Music

  • Biblical Serendipity Alert

    Let’s start by recognizing that, insofar as the probability of a given event happening is the product of the individual probabilities of all of the events needed to produce it, we certainly shouldn’t be here. Everything is impossible. It’s nonetheless funny when individually improbable streams cross, which is what’s happening when we talk about serendipity.…

  • GD cxl 9/27/70 post updated

    http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2014/11/gd-92770-san-diego-sports-arena-canceled.html I have updated pretty substantially. Now, the little tiny fragment presented by a previously unknown canceled Dead show in San Diego is about death. And stuff.

  • Race Record Dream

    Rolling Stone has just posted a little gallery of Garcia’s art. Given finity, I will only scratch the surface of the paintings and drawings. But, since race is one of the threads I am trying to weave through my (amateur!) musicological excursions, and it crossed my screen, I thought I’d reproduce it here. This is…

  • The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game

  • Footnotes on Blogger

    Blogger is so problematic (though I love it for what it does for the price, of course!), I presume to know the answer, but here it is, anyway: if I am composing in Word and pasting into Blogger (seems the only safe thing to do), will it be able to swallow footnotes? Bonus material: if…

  • Fantasy-Keystone Cross-Promotion

    All Good Things – Jerry Garcia Studio Sessions I can be a picky consumer, but I tip my hat to the market for the quantity and quality of Garcia music that has come available for purchase. Let’s hear it for the price mechanism! I won’t get into detail on the masterful 2004 box All Good…

  • Risky Reconstruction

    **massively updated 11/24/2014 11 PM mountain time** I just tipped my hat to the idea of meso level musical risk in Garcia’s side trips. This is the pedantic-even-by-my-high-standards phrasing of the notion that that different bands, qua bands (combinations of players and repertoires), could and did musically challenge Garcia to different degrees. The challenge-comfort continuum…

  • Fey on Miles

    Barry Fey on Miles Davis (Fey 2011, 243): “You didn’t fuck with Miles.”

  • Darkness, Darkness

    **Fulsomely updated, 11/28/2014 at 12:34 PM, GMT -0700)** **update2: Blogger is making me crazy. Sorry for poor formatting** This post now needs to be completely reconstituted. 1. San Diego papers  I mentioned in my 11/18/73 post that the San Diego State Daily Aztec is digitized and online. Bravo, and thank you, librarians! They have also,…

  • San Diego Public Library, and Public Libraries

    I am in love with libraries. Is there a word for this? Someone has asked a Yahoo, but I am not sure I see an answer that works for me. So, as a book-lover is a bibliophile, as a word-lover is a philologist, what is a library-lover? Anyway, San Diego Public Library, http://www.sandiego.gov/public-library/, stands as…