Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for October 23, 2023

I’ve tried to write my own songs before, but it’s really difficult to come up with an original melody, so all my songs just recycle the melodies of pre-existing songs.

Please! Anyone can write that. LA! See?

The Book of World Records is no longer recognizing “feats of artistic briefness”. A couple of musicians each playing a single note simultaneously and calling it the world’s shortest concert ruined that for everyone.

Marigold: (sings a single note)

John Cage: 4:33

She needs a better drummer.

GO LAKERS

Short and sweet!

The story which could have been a Halloween arc has obviously ended. I hope that we do get a good Halloween arc next week.

Marigold called it a song they were writing, not one they had written.

That’s a new one on me..

What an ear worm.

“The song of a thousand words begins with one note” — Lao’d Song

-de-dah!

What’s next? The Miniscule Waltz?

Another classic! I snorted!

What a moving musical tribute to Los Angeles.

The late, great jazz pianist Marian McPartland was fond of telling this story about Duke Ellington:

“I remember he made a sort of a subtle criticism,” she says. “He said, ‘Oh, you play so many notes.’ I thought, ’He’s obviously telling me that I’m playing too many notes,’ so from that I kind of eased off a little bit. I was probably showing off.”

Reminds me of “Big Fish,” where a guy had been working on a poem for 12 years and had only three lines to show for it. When questioned about it, he got annoyed and said, “This is why you never share a work in progress.”

I would think that if a unicorn sang a one-note song, the note would be “Mi.”

Miles Davis – “It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.”

93rd <3

booya