The scoreboard shows that about 300 people have viewed this blog this week and that about 80 different posts have been visited, of the 400-plus that exist. There have been about 20,000 views in the history of “Plastic Alto”.
Wired magazine called this “the long tail.”
Maybe I should (and you, too, dear reader) should be spending that much more time reading books.
From a pile of a couple thousand clippings and flat wads of data, which I transformed into three piles of semi-sorted clusters of information, I pulled Michiko Kakutani’s article on “Texts Without Contexts“. Fittingly, it comes in two separate tear sheets. The booklist above is his.
edita I mean hers. Colin McEnroe claims as a prank to be the actual New York Times Pulitzer prize winning critic, MK, but I know better, thanks to wiki. And that somehow brings me to my outro of the band, named after an Korean Olympic boxing champion, fitting since I am just moments away from watching and taping the 2012 Olympics opening ceremonies, Sun Kil Moon:
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 