Meta

• People who read my blog using a weblog monitor like blo.gs or weblogs.com should update their weblog list in case they want to continue reading me. From now on I ping the weblog name "sax and sunshine" to weblogs.com instead of "sx and sunshine" with the "" standing for the most common letter in the alphabet.
• Google has finished its' monthly crawl. Unfortunately my page rank went down from six to five and I am now no. 4 (not counting websites twice) for the infamous "s*x"-query. I can't believe it. I suppose the number of visitors per day will exceed the one thousand mark soon. The measures I took to repel people looking for smudgy stuff will probably only take effect after the next crawl.

Miscellaneous

• Marjorie Kelly's critic of capitalism and especially the shareholder value becomes more and more relevant in view of the falsified balances of Enron, Worldcom, Xerox etc.: The Divine Right of Capital
• The European knowledge test (via prolific). Not very difficult as I got 19/20.
• The new Flaming Lips album is streamed on their site (Mefi discussion).
• Everett True on Ed Kuepper, the great rather unknown Australian songwriter: The Cornish Arms - Artists' Biographies (via monkey puzzle)
• Tom Ewing on the Talking Heads Fear of Music and Remain in Light and the Byrne/Eno collaboration My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (I have to relisten to that album. In my memory a brilliant experimental record): It's nearly Africa (ILM discussion)
• I Love Music: did we ever have a Keith Jarrett thread?
• 'Deep in a Dream': A Life of Chet Baker, the Popularizer of Cool. Extract 'Deep in a Dream' (free NYT registration required)
• 'Anything Goes' (free registration required), the new novel by Madison Smartt Bell is about a 20-year-old traveling with his band across the South. Excerpt: "Kurt Cobain was teaching me how to play "Lithium." One of two songs off that record I ever liked well enough to care to learn it. How the changes were just so brutally stupid, like they went out of their way to pick the exact wrong chords. The funny thing was I was playing guitar. Kurt was explaining to me–you got to keep it rough. Which it seems like rough was built into the chord progression anyway but maybe it wasn't quite so simple as I thought. So he was reaching for the guitar to show me what he meant but somehow the guitar sort of went tilting away from both of us and that's how I woke up." (via wood s lot)

German - deutsch - allemand

• Kollektive gemischtgeschlechtliche Besäufnisse: "Drei befreundete /bekannte Paare meinereins haben sich beim gemeinsamen Kotzen nach zuviel Alkohol kennengelernt.":
• Interessante Diskussion über die Ablehnung des internationalen Strafgerichtshofs in Den Haag von den USA bei hirn&verbrannt.
• Glückwunsch an Brasilien. Es ist selten, dass die Schönheit über die Effizienz siegt. Ausgerechnet ihr bestes Spiel bei der WM verlieren die Deutschen, soviel Ironie hätte ich der Mannschaft gar nicht zugetraut. Zudem wissen wir nun, dass Kahn auch nur ein menschlicher Torwart ist.