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One wacky neighbor and his wacky deal!

Last year, when I was in New York, I commented in this post that “I have been in unit 11L of the Apthorp, and unit 11K appears to be undergoing renovations, so presumably it will soon have occupants.” So who moved into unit 11K? This guy.

Louis C.K. has a deal going where, for only five bucks, you can buy his new hour-long video, Live at the Beacon Theater. Do it through PayPal and you’ll see this download screen.

Louis is doing this on the honor system, and he’s trusting everybody to not distribute the video freely. So far, it’s been going all right.

House mouse

In other exciting weekend news from home, after the Comcast salesmen left I caught a mouse in my office, in the finished half of the basement. I used one of these Victor live traps. They work well and I recommend them. I let the little guy go in the woods near the house, and if a deer mouse can look scared, he looked scared.

Sunday follow-up: OK, let’s make that two mice.
Monday follow-up: Looks like Mr. and Mrs. Mouse were it. Trap still set with bait intact.

Pop and circumstance

A few minutes ago I made an edit to this page on Wikipedia, about the Buckinghams. It had said, “The group opposed the producer’s treatment of the song “Susan” by adding a psychedelic section that sounded very similar to the Beatles’ song “A Day in the Life”, with an orchestral crescendo.”

http://youtu.be/aIacsdOfKAQ

I edited the article to note that the orchestral crescendo included a bit of Charles Ives’ Central Park in the Dark. Composed in 1906, it was, to say the least, ahead of its time and wasn’t performed publicly until 1946.

http://youtu.be/1qPZbHNuZzI

I love the song Susan, its production, the recording and, yes, the Charles Ives break too. In my opinion, the single coming after A Day in the Life is beside the point, because I think it’s far more significant that Susan came before Revolution 9.

http://youtu.be/LVf5Cr4M-F8