There are musical partners made in heaven. Sam and Dave. Otis and Carla. Keith and Mick…

   Django and Grapelli are just — all time. Making this music in Paris over 70 years ago. Doesn’t sound old. Contemporary in its beauty and wit and lightness. Imagine the flappers dancing…

   To tell the, er, truth, I have been dancing all over the office to this record. It’s 6:45 PM, everyone is gone, I’d never do this with anyone around. My feet just seem to know where to go to this music.These songs are from 1934-40. I was born in 1935. Hmmm!

   There are tons of records of these two, but this one gets them at their absolute best,

Check out Sweet Georgia Brown: https://shltr.net/djangogeorgia

“A short vignette of a book being created using traditional printing methods.”

From Rick Gordon

Author “Tour” With City Lights last week, I’ve done 6 bookstore appearances and now I have 2 weeks before taking off for Canada, where I’ll be in Vancouver April 19, Hornby Island 4/22, Denman Island 4/23, and Victoria 4/25.

   I’ve got a busy May-early June schedule: The North House Folk School for the 1st week of May; the mighty Maker Fair in San Mateo, Calif. May 19-20; the Mother Earth News Fair in Puyallup, Washington on June 2; then directly to NY for the 2102 BookExpo America, and an appearance at the v. cool Spoonbill and Sugartown bookstore in Brooklyn on June 6th, then back to SFO on June 11th. Whooh! I know it’s not as dense a schedule as most on-the-road authors have, but I’ll be glad when it’s over. It’s fun and rewarding to be at these places, but it’s the getting there and back…

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“Let’s face it, OK Go have the best music videos around and their new clip for “Skyscrapers” is certainly no exception to that rule, even if it doesn’t actually feature the band themselves.

The video, which comes from their album Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky which came out two years ago, sees dancer Moti Buchboot and director Trish Sie tangoing in front of different colored buildings and their outfits mimic each scene to give the video a chameleon-like feel. Trust us, it’s more impressive than that description makes it sound.

The song is also heavily influenced by Prince both musically and in the fact that it references his classic cuts like ‘1999’ and ‘Purple Rain.’ Oh and if you have a Nintendo 3DS you can also watch the video in 3D on your device, just try to stay out of the way of the dancers.…”

https://shltr.net/tangocolors