doveman.

dawn's webcasting has been reduced in a few short minutes from inspired typistry to quoting jon stewart's one liners. pick up the pace girl! oh wait I just checked the blog. she has surely picked up the pace: now she's criticizing my blogging style!?!?! are you starting a beef with this guest-hosted doveman blog, dawn? that is dangerous territory to step into let me tell you, I spent 4 hours sparring in kung fu today and am ready to go (this is still your friendly - albeit menacing - guest blogger sam here, in for thomas who is still on couch leave. right now he's polishing off some chocolate cake) - the only thing I fear is your mysterious power of "grass fire transform."
kiwis, australians, they all talk funny to me.

crash into my new dance moves which are unstoppable

9:31 - be sure to come to the next doveman or samamidon show to see my performance of the interpretive car crash dancing being done on the television right now.

they're all australian

8:53 - dawn at www.grassfiretransform.com gives us some tips on japanese pronounciation. thomas and marian head downstairs to get the chocolate cake. the caffeinated tea I drank last night was defeated by too little sleep and 4 hours of kung fu sparring today, and it's hurting my blogging game - i've had to re-post the previous post 3 times due to technical idiocy on my part.

dawn

helo all, this is your friendly guest blogger sam here, in for thomas who is on couch leave. right now he's drinking a hoegaarden. on this special night, I will be providing live commentary on dawn's live webcast of the academy awards:Dawn

dawn has intuitively grasped the subtle art of academy awards webcasting. how does she do it. i don't know. how does she do it!?!

new to the blogroll, funtimes on the internets

Brother Ezra has a residency at Sarah Lawrence right now, and is making a video a week, with music provided by friend Sam. As they're completed, they're being posted here.

Tom Lunt, of the peerless Numero Group, now blogs.

Frank Bruni, the NYTimes' delightful restaurant critic (Ganda shudders), blogs.

Malcolm Gladwell blogs.

fuck heineken

I just saw Blue Velvet at Film Forum where it's playing a 2 week long 20th anniversary run. Even better than I remembered, and also a whole lot funnier (although that might just be the effect of seeing it in a theater with a whole bunch of giggly people). "Wild At Heart" seems more powerful to me (more powerful all the way up the point that I can't really watch it), but "Blue Velvet" has all that Lynchian slimy beauty in full effect, but with the sleazy, kinky, threat-of-violence stuff pulled back just enough that I'm actually able to get into it. Lynch somehow makes art that is simultaneously tacky and mysterious (in the fully glamorous sense of the word), qualities that are normally irreconcilable.

Sam and Kathryn forwarded me this article within three minutes of each other:
"Vermont Losing Prized Resource As Young Depart"

Kathryn's comment: "Is it time for us all to repatriate?"
Sam's comment: "oops"

the next little boy

Tomorrow I'll be playing in the Kurt Weill Birthday Tribute concert organized by Anthony Coleman at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center. I'll be playing two songs (joined by Sam for one of them). Also performing are Chocolate Genius, Elysian Fields, Sandra Weigl, Shelley Hirsch, Christina Courtin, and the Main Squeeze Orchestra, with a house band including Oren Bloedow, Doug Wieselman, Roberto Rodriguez, and, of course, Anthony Coleman. 8pm. $20/$25.

meh

Since music blogging about pizza seems to be all the rage, I must report that today, in the midst of an unexpectedly long winded trip to Staten Island (my first) I made it to Denino's, which is the last of the classic New York big hitters I hadn't visited.

It's disappointing. Not as disappointing as Lombardi's, but certainly not worth a trip to Staten Island.

Grimaldi's still rules supreme (or at least did last time I tried it, but that might have been before the owners changed, so, maybe Totonno's rules supreme now...in any case, there is absolutely not chance that Denino's rules supreme).

I find it impossible to discuss excellence in food using any term other than "rules supreme." It's the fault of Iron Chef.