Morimoto

Stanco delle lamentele del suo capo che lo ritiene una sorta di “posto vacante permanente”, Shoij Morimoto, dopo anni spesi tentando di soddisfare le aspettative della società, si chiede se proprio il “fare nulla” possa avere un valore, anche se non misurabile in produttività. Così, con un tweet, nel 2018 avvia il suo servizio di do-nothing rental e lui diventa una persona a noleggio per fare nulla. Nessun tariffario applicato, solo rimborso spese e doni o offerta libera in denaro. Vuoi compagnia a cena, durante una passeggiata o mentre stai lavorando? O qualcuno che ti saluti quando sei in partenza per un viaggio? Shoji è affidabile, non giudica, non dà consigli, non fa consulenze e si impegna a rimanere distaccato. Semplicemente c’è, dove non vorresti altri o dove nessun altro potrebbe esserci..

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The revered Iron Chef shows how to make flavorful, exciting traditional Japanese meals at home in this beautiful cookbook that is sure to become a classic, featuring a carefully curated selection of fantastic recipes and more than 150 color photos.

Today, I'm starting a 'rent a person who does nothing' service . . . Except for very simple conversation, I'm afraid I can do nothing.

Swing one word really describes this new recording by John Colianni, his fourth for Patuxent. Swing, the style of jazz exemplified by Duke Ellington and Count Basie. Swing, that essential, almost indescribable, element of jazz that Ellington described as “ that part of rhythm that causes a bouncing, buoyant terpsichorean urge.” The music on this album swings because it is performed by musicians who are steeped in the tradition of how to swing. John Colianni has certainly lived a life immersed in swing from the time his parents took him to see Duke Ellington perform at Georgetown University in 1974 and he managed to get back stage and have Duke sign his copy of Music Is My Mistress. His early influences were Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, Oscar Peterson, George Shearing and Count Basie.

Riding the ripples of their debut single “Escalator” (which BBC’s Gilles Peterson called “a winner,” and Supreme Standards’ Tina Edwards likened to “Radiohead on a Jazz trip”), Chicago collective Resavoir return with their first full length effort. The self-titled album presents a juicy suite of elegantly-orchestrated lo-fi jazz instrumentals germinated from home recording experiments by the group’s producer/arranger Will Miller.