This is my first day blogging. It was a normal day - up early to walk my kid to the bus, bus into work myself, take the bus home myself, make dinner for the kid. I work as an All Music Guide editor, and today was productive - I completed editing the worklists of both Arthur Honegger and George Antheil and did a little additional tweaking of my huge Jacques Arcadelt page. It will be awhile before any of this work shows up on the web. I also wrote a short bio of composer Elfrida Andrée. I meant to listen to some music while I worked today, but nothing came of that.
At home, I am about to try to break down a BIG wave file consisting of the Paredon album "We Say No! to Your War" (1972). I was doing this for my radio station, WCBN, just so they can have this wonderful album on file for broadcast. I transferred it in July and really need to get it off my hard drive, but now that I'm doing so its hard to resist the temptation to want to go into the album and fix things. I never realized how bad this album sounds - there was a noisy hum in the tape deck that recorded it, and the tickiness of the vinyl is, to me distracting. Of course, I could just order a CDR of the damn thing from the Smithsonian and be done with it, but it's not for my collection - I already have the album. It's for the (non-profit) station.
But I need to get this done as I have 16 78 rpm sides by the New Friends of Rhythm to transfer by Monday Morning. Wish me luck.
The silent Western "The Riders of the Purple Sage" (1925) starring Tom Mix will air tonight at 11:20 pm ET on the Western Channel.
It runs a total of just 53 minutes.
I wrote the English text to an Italian madrigal today. In English it goes like this:
Using leaves as toilet paper
For I am lost in the forest
Lord! Pity me and bring me leaves that are
softer than those found in fancy Art books.
According to AltaVista, the Italian is this:
Usando va mentre la carta igienica
per io sono persa nel della foresta
Signore! Il pity me e lo porta va che è più molle
di quelli trovati in libri operati di arte.
Obviously at least part of this wrong. Anyone who can help come along with a better Italian translation of my efforts is welcome to write me at uncledavelewis@hotmail.com I already have some music in mind for it - more on that later.
Uncle Dave Lewis (b. 1961)