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Tuesday, December 5, 2006

My Personal Favorite Item

posted by on December 5 at 16:26 PM

Alex Ross’s iPod New Yorker music critic Alex Ross set music dorks’ hearts aflutter last year on his national iPod Tour, lecturing on 20th-century composers from Ligeti to Bjrk to Messiaen and playing samples from his iPod. Now here’s your chance to possess an Alex Rossprogrammed iPod of your very own. The venerable Ross has programmed four playlists into this very iPod Mini in his own New York apartment with his own delicate fingers. Eeeeee! Priceless! Opening bid: $1.99

The first playlist is called Silence and includes Stravinsky’s Pater Noster, Morton Feldman’s Madame Press Died Last Week at Ninety, and a chunk of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time (my number-one desert island record).

The second playlist is called The Twentieth Century and includes Ives, Schoenberg, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Gershwin (from Porgy and Bess), Pärt, Bjrk, the Gyrgys (Ligeti and Kurtág), and a few other diacritic-enhanced names.

The third playlist is dedicated to Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and the fourth to Bob Dylan. If I were a selfish man, I’d exclude these details to make the package less interesting and improve my chances of being able to afford it. I make this sacrifice for you.

And here is a package for the slightly-less-dorky:

Get Out of Town #1Doe Bay Give nine of your closest friends the gift of a blowout party in the woods with this dream package, which includes three nights in a fantastic cabin on beautiful Orcas Island, a $100 voucher for meals in the Doe Bay Cafe (and 25 percent off more food), plus a keg of beer, courtesy of Mac & Jack’s! Holy Moses! Valued at over $1,200! Opening bid: $1.99

And here are pictures of pretty people:

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Strangercrombie: We do this in remembrance of you.

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Pärk, Björk, the Györgys (Ligeti and Kurtág), and a few other diaeresis-enhanced names.
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actually, all of these are umlauts, not diaeresis. though they _are_ all diacritics.

i suppose your weblog dept. lacks proofreaders?

Posted by picky | December 5, 2006 4:43 PM
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Pärk, Björk, the Györgys (Ligeti and Kurtág), and a few other diaeresis-enhanced names.
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actually, all of these are umlauts, not diaereses. though they _are_ all diacritics.

i suppose your weblog dept. lacks proofreaders?

Posted by picky | December 5, 2006 4:43 PM
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Thanks for the correction. Our "weblog dept." prefers open-source proofreading.

Posted by Brendan Kiley | December 5, 2006 4:52 PM
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As an Orcas Island native I can tell you that Doe Bay is nothing fancy. Think dirty-hippie-naked-jacuzzi. (Good on ya' if that floats your boat.) Also, it is a good 20 minutes from Eastsound (town). I've heard that the restaurant has gotten better, but the quesedilla I had there a few years back is still haunting me... I had never eaten something so simple that tasted so bad.

Posted by John | December 5, 2006 6:01 PM
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Um, guys... If you put up a auction to eBay and the only information in the item description is:::

An iPod programmed by the New Yorker music critic.
More details.

And "More details" is a link pointing back to the Stranger, the target page should have some information about the item being offered for sale.

Posted by t. marie | December 5, 2006 6:08 PM
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Well, I'll always have fond memories of camping on the beach at Doe Bay. The hot tub was at the top of the trail and, periodically, stark naked men would run down and jump into the water. The day before I left, I wrote on a log on the beach, "Beware -- overheated naked men."

Good times.

Posted by keshmeshi | December 5, 2006 6:38 PM
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Soon, T. Marie. Very soon.

Posted by Brendan Kiley | December 6, 2006 10:07 AM
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