Derb on Boyd

JOHN DERBYSHIRE has a new "diary" column up that features a nice bit about PATTI BOYD. Here's a short excerpt:

"There are plain women, there are pretty women, there are attractive women, and there are beautiful women. High above them all, in a realm of their own, there are those women. I think every guy knows what I mean: women who, without necessarily being beautiful in a conventional way, or having any specially iridescent qualities of intelligence or personality, cause our knees to tremble, our eyeballs to lock, and our poor tongues to lose the power of speech."

There's more, and you can read the whole column here:

http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NDBkZWUxZmU5NmFiZTQwNjA4MTM3ZmQ0NjRiM2E1M2Q=

Good ol' Monkey Grip

Love Extractions

One of the coolest things about this here digital age of music, in my opinion, is the ability (of some folks, anyway) to do these 5.1 extraction things, extracting the "discrete" channels from 5.1 mixes. This allows us to hear the same old songs in some totally new ways.

Currently floating around is a 10-disc set called "Loveology", a collection of all the discrete channels extracted from the 5.1 mix of the recent BEATLES "Love" CD.

I think its all fun to hear, but 10 discs is a lot to download, so here are a couple of tracks that I thought really stood out. If you like 'em, you might want to look around for the full set.

These are both "center-channel" extractions from Disc 1, which give us a loud and clear vocal track along with some of the musical backing. Its almost like LENNON and MCCARTNEY were right there singing in your ear!

BACK IN THE USSR (CENTER CHANNEL)

I AM THE WALRUS (CENTER CHANNEL)

And be sure to listen for Lennon's shout of "Nyet!" during the solo in "Back In The USSR".....