Art Farmer makes it sound like butter on warm toast. Gorgeous. Both these albums are what passes for rare in these days of internetular abundance. Crawl Space comes adorned with a light sprinkling of vinyl crackles for that authentic analog glow. It's an album you'll cue up, not expecting too much, and find yourself thirty-five minutes later having listened to every note with a smile on your face. Feat. Steve Gadd and Eric Gale, it's an effortlessly cool - the cover shot gets it right - and funkily addictive masterpiece.
Today's subject for th' Foam-In™ is - smartphones. Are they dumb or is it us?
ReplyDeleteI've never owned a smart phone. I've never invested more than 13 dollars at a corner drugstore for a Virgin mobile phone. Then again my lifestyle, like Pmac's, is more conducive to burners and plausible deniability. Cue up Mission Imp(lausible)ossible music here. I hope this doesn't exclude me from the calvacade of flugelhorn delights contained herein. I think I'll order the shrimp cocktail at the Isle of Foam luau tonight.
ReplyDeleteYour exclusion is inclusion here, FiveGuns. I have one - gifted to me - but I never use it. I live with the only person I'd want to call, and we're never far apart. I don't need an app to get to the market. When I eat out, I don't sit there and stroke my phone. I remain part of the immediate world, which is enough for me. I don't do social media, I do social life, people in the street. I'm one lucky sumbitch.
DeleteThat sounds perfect. You are, indeed, one lucky "sumbitch".
DeleteI use my phone like a dude twice my age: can never remember where I put it, three quarters of the time it isn't even loaded and I essentially use it for its ostensible main purpose: every three month or so I might make a phone call with it.
DeleteOf course that means that some of my superiors at work are aghast when they can't reach me right away. I suggested the landline- which we still do have - and always get sort of confused reactions: "Whaddayamean, 'use the landline'?" The additional "what the fuck is wrong with you?" isn't spoken out loud but somewhat palpable.
The Ad Agency I work for furnishes me with some "groovy" tech, currently using a iPhone 12 Pro. Don't do social media, but it does have a very nice camera.
ReplyDeleteIn pre-pandemic Manhattan, I used to laugh at people sitting at the same table, all ignoring each other while engrossed with their smartphones, which in my eye is pretty fucking stupid.
Not only stupid, but deeply sad. Back when I was in Bangkok, couples on dates would sit in silence, looking down at their phones. It's not like we need worry about Big Brother implanting chips in our minds - humans carry their ever-connected and life-over-riding chips with them, can't live without them. Turns out we are Big Brother.
DeleteWent on a date once with a woman that I was very interested in and who was unbelievably attractive. Got us reservations at a really nice restaurant, and the whole fucking meal she had her smartphone out, taking photos and posting them to her social media account. Was my first, and last, date with her.
DeleteI think I know her
Delete...in the biblical sense?
DeleteDoes she sound like that "kind of woman".............?
DeleteIn the days when I was employed I also was supplied one. When I left that job and worked as an independent contractor after that I had to have my own, which I still have. I don't do social media but I like being able to read the news and check the mail. I sure as hell don't live on it though and I rarely use it as a music player because it's not as good as the (cheap) dedicated players I use.
ReplyDeleteHad to get one after Katrina because the only reliable way to communicate in NO at that time was through texting. All other phone services were pure crap for a few years. Since I'm self employed, I still have one, but once I walk in the door at night, it goes into a bin, and doesn't come out till I leave in the morning.
ReplyDeleteBTW- long time Art Farmer fan. To me, he was the epitome of style. One of my all time favorite albums is his Central Ave Reunion disc. The 2 you are posting are very good.
ReplyDelete"Central Ave Reunion" is excellent, so is "Work of Art" from '81.
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ReplyDeleteI use a smartphone! In my defense, a sleeping bee:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.mediafire.com/file/h0ue1azrmkagq8p/A_Sleeping_Bee.zip/file
Tasty.
DeleteThanks.
Thanks for the bee!
DeleteSmartphones are useful, but at a certain point they start using you.
Welcome to the BarcaLounge .......
ReplyDeleteCheers
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Here's Interaction with Jim Hall
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Thank you Mr. Heasman!
DeleteThanks Dave!
DeleteThings Dave Letterman & I have in common (*):
ReplyDeleteWe do not own $ell-yell-er phones.
Never have and never will.
(* Insert your own joke/insult/aphorism/euphemism/cancel culture comment, here, if you so choose)
*fidgets nervously trying desperately not to look at his phone's comforting glow for fear of ridicule and exile.* So ... um ... how 'bout this weather?!?
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