Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

This is a really worthwhile video to check out. It isn’t on YouTube or Google Video, so I can’t embed it here, but follow the link. This guy plays a chord sequence from “Don’t Stop Believin’” by the band Journey and sings about 20 different popular tunes over it. It shows [...]

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During the summers of 2001 and 2002 I played double bass for the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina. Originally this organization was part of the Festival of Two Worlds that Gian Carlo Menotti started in conjunction with Spoleto, Italy, [...]

There is a Wikipedia page dedicated to the worst movies of all time. Check it out here. This is a short sampling of some of the movies:

“Manos” The Hands of Fate (1966)
A low-budget horror film made by El Paso fertilizer salesman Hal Warren. The film gained cult popularity by being featured on Mystery [...]

In keeping with the other non-bass or music posts for today, I’d like to share this really amazing video of birds flying in ultra-slow motion. It is really a remarkable little video that I found while surfing on Digg:

A great blog that my friend Aaron Burman (check out his wedding photos here) pointed me to is Don to Earth by Donald Crowdis. Don is 92 years old! Check out his writing–it’s a great blog and an example of the power of this blogging medium to enhance everybody’s abilities to communicate and [...]

Kazakhstan is on many people’s minds these days thanks to Borat. I just saw this movie and never laughed so hard. Here’s the trailer for those of you that haven’t seen it yet:________________________

While browsing around Wikipedia Commons recently I found this beautiful picture of Kaindy lake in Kazakhstan. According to Wikipedia, the mountain [...]

This is worth checking out. See what happens when the blender blends a rake handle.

This is something that has to be seen to be believed. John Kilduff does a cable access TV show called Let’s Paint TV where he paints, exercises, blends, and takes calls all at the same time. In this episode he paints a pie, eats a pie, runs on a treadmill, takes calls [...]

News at Seven is a recent project launched by Northwestern University (my Alma Mater). This thing is really amazing. It is a completely automatic news generator. Using characters from Half-Life, the program creates a news feed by scraping news sites, blogs, videos and more to create a news program with absolutely no [...]

I have another audition story I’d like to share. If you like this story, you may want to check out my stories about what to never bring into an audition, my disastrous audition for the San Jose Symphony, or any of my other gig tales.
A certain bassist (who shall remain nameless) in [...]