I'm moving the blog over to blog.josephzitt.com (for almost purely technological reasons). While this one will remain online, I won't be posting to it, and am shutting down comments. Those using RSS readers should point them to http://www.josephzitt.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2.

See you on the other side!

Forgive me, posters. It has been two months since my last update, and that didn't say much.

Things have only been marginally different recently. Most significant is that I haven't had much time online. Since my DSL lapsed at home, I have been getting on at a variety of WiFi coffeehouses in the area. I may have access at home again soon, though I hope not to spend every waking hour at home online as I had been.   Read more…

Some team of aggressive jerks has figured out how to post fake comments to blogs that use the Polarblog software. Even worse, they are posting them as comments on other people's comments, and Polarblog is dutifully sending them on to the original readers by email. I'm trying to stay on top of this (and, of course, it happens when I'm away in New Jersey (sorry, no time to get together with anybody)) but it's an arms race. Fortunately, it's mostly hitting messages that are several months old, so recent posters are spared... for now.

We now return you to our previously scheduled procrastination in posting...

This is a thinking-aloud about how classical music is pitched and experienced, inspired by what I've noticed in my job as Classical CD Guy at a large urban store, by Kyle Gann's new book Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice, by the book-in-progress The Future of Classical Music? that Greg Sandow has been writing online, and by Gann's and Sandow's blogs. It's more hurried and rambling than usual, too, but I wanted to get it out there quickly now that some of the thoughts have come together.

I've also been procrastinating for months on another long post, so perhaps posting this unrelated item might break the logjam...

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My DSL is down for a few days (due to too many bills coming due at once). The best ways to reach me are, once again, my Gmail account (myfirstname dot mylastname at gmail.com) or by cell phone.

This should be cleared up by the weekend.

*sigh*