Monthly Archives: May 2007

Oh, Newt! … and, Why Classical Music Is So Boring, Episode 3,423

By Jeremy Denk | Published: May 27, 2007
[PARENTAL WARNING: this post is extremely unreadable until paragraph 5 or so. It may be occasionally unreadable after that. You can't say I didn't warn you.] So, Newt Gingrich has written a novel: James nodded his thanks, opened the wax paper and looked a bit suspiciously at the offering, it looked to be a [...]
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Regrettable Zeitgeist?

By Jeremy Denk | Published: May 23, 2007
Here at Think Denk, we try to keep abreast and astride and athwart of all the most meaningful, semiotically capacious internet trends. Woe betide the blogger who heeds not the flittering flutter of the zeitgeist! I have had my attention drawn, lately, to a certain captioning, captivating phenomenon: it goes by the [...]
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Day 8 (just kidding, sort of)

By Jeremy Denk | Published: May 17, 2007
For a different take on the Allemande (and ensuing movements), I have long been neglecting to link to the good people at Houston Public Radio, who had me on their program… I begin playing at 8 and a half minutes in. Otherwise, I simply babble away, it seems.
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Day 7: Microphone Where My Mouth Is

By Jeremy Denk | Published: May 16, 2007
“I’m speechless,” I said to friend B. “Finally,” he replied. So: here’s the Allemande as it seemed to me today, my birthday, at 2:45 pm. It is recorded in the legendary studios of the Greystone Hotel. A couple twangy notes (no, really, I did get the piano tuned) and the ineffably poignant call [...]
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