Thursday, October 30, 2008
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
I was listening to Eugene Jarecki on the Daily Show last night and ruminating again on how we are not only a nation of perpetual wark but that we are a nation whose national myth is at this point reliant on perptetual war. We’re what Rome or the Imperial United Kingdom was; without war we [...]
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
“We want to express our pain and our sentiments over this situation. Fighting against relegation is the most difficult and unpleasant thing that can happen to a footballer” – Rosario Central captain Cristian Gonzalez reckons the squad have reached their lowest point, languishing 17th in Argentina’s Primera División. He’d be wrong … “We are going [...]
http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=ddp4zq7n_0cdjsr4fn “Remember the scene at the end of Peter Pan, where the children are told that, if they don’t shout out aloud that they all believe in fairies, then Tinker Bell’s gonna fucking die? That’s what the fall of 2008 was like, and quite a fall it was, at that.” – Christopher Hitchens The rest [...]
Thursday, October 9, 2008
1. Conceptual Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach 2. Rational judgements repeat rational judgements. 3. Irrational judgements lead to new experience.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
All day long I listen to Fugazi. Now it’s 2008 and I listen to Kill the Symphony and miss those days.
http://www.davidfriedmanphoto.com/blog/2008/09/photo-essay-the-denim-factory.html
If you listen to a lot of music, as I do, then you know the appreciation for that difficult nugget that suddenly opens itself up to you, in deep listening. Pendrecki, Saariaho, Webern, Alban Berg, Schoenberg, Britten, step forward; you’ve all elucidated difficult musical concepts for me. But there is something so satisfying about the [...]