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Water Dissolves Water: January 2015
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Why Can't I Be Different and Original . . . Like Everybody Else? Saturday, January 31, 2015. Wednesday, January 28, 2015. Tuesday, January 27, 2015. Tuesday, January 20, 2015. Monday, January 19, 2015. POTUS - Hillary Clinton. VP - Elizabeth Warren. Sec of State - Michelle Obama. Homeland Security - Gabrielle Giffords. Health and Human Resources - Wendy Davis. Interior - Elizabeth Kolbert. Defense - Jane Goodall. Education - Rachel Maddow. DEA - Courtney Love. Saturday, January 17, 2015. Look, I'm a prog...
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Water Dissolves Water
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Why Can't I Be Different and Original . . . Like Everybody Else? Wednesday, August 12, 2015. 1) I finally finished Infinite Jest. And have returned it to the former gap on the bookshelf. 2) Crichton was a hack and the books are merely reference material for me to refute his half-baked half-truths regarding climate change. 3) Even though I still have yet to encounter a likable character in a Franzen novel, I'm nonetheless looking forward to Purity. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Where Are The Tunes?
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Water Dissolves Water: May 2015
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Why Can't I Be Different and Original . . . Like Everybody Else? Sunday, May 31, 2015. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. Saturday, May 30, 2015. Apparently, It's An Art Thing. Meanwhile, back at The Goat Farm . . . Friday, May 29, 2015. Mothers against drunk drivers, the Pope is against the pill. The unions against the workers working against their will. The President's against the Congress, the Senate is against the House. Thursday, May 28, 2015.
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Music Dissolves Water: Shilly-Shallying, Dilly-Dallying, and Sitting on the Fence: Indecision Bordering on the Aboulomanic In Selection of Live Pop Music Performances, or Destroyer vs. Pure Bathing Culture and Wild Ones
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Harmonic Dissolution To A Syncopated Beat. Sunday, August 16, 2015. Shilly-Shallying, Dilly-Dallying, and Sitting on the Fence: Indecision Bordering on the Aboulomanic In Selection of Live Pop Music Performances, or Destroyer vs. Pure Bathing Culture and Wild Ones. Wild Ones at the Marmoset Day Party, MFNW (RIP) 2013. How do we make the aesthetic choices that we make and what are the bases for those decisions? Speaking about the new sound, "and the way we think about our music.". Or we could choose to go...
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Music Dissolves Water: Adron
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Harmonic Dissolution To A Syncopated Beat. Saturday, August 15, 2015. Adron at Criminal Records, L5Fest, 2013. Art, fundamentally, is the merging of two consciousnesses. We can never really know what it's like to experience the consciousness of another person - their thoughts, perceptions, memories, associations, and so on - but art gives us the closest approximation. Them the view, but we can't make them see. Performed in her own nuevo bossa nova. If consciousness is, as some philosophers and sages sugg...
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Music Dissolves Water: Shaky Knees Day One in Pictures
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Harmonic Dissolution To A Syncopated Beat. Saturday, May 9, 2015. Shaky Knees Day One in Pictures. Photomontage by Shaky Knees. That's all I have time for right now, as I'm off to Day Two of Shaky Knees soon. More on all of this and the inevitable recaps later, or follow me live today at Instagram. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Do you remember Chris Rock's routine about that one guy you always see in the club who's waaaay too old to be there? The Ed Sullivan Show. And the aural counterpart to.
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Water Dissolves Water: December 2014
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Why Can't I Be Different and Original . . . Like Everybody Else? Tuesday, December 30, 2014. The reasons are a tad too complicated to explain here, but the last three days have been among the most interesting and rewarding of the past 25 or so years. Sunday, December 28, 2014. The days are already getting longer. Friday, December 26, 2014. Things tuned ugly fast, and within two days Ceausescu attempted to flee the country. He didn't get very far. But it's hard to find that sympathy. Now, to take that whi...
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Water Dissolves Water: September 2014
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Why Can't I Be Different and Original . . . Like Everybody Else? Tuesday, September 30, 2014. Dogen Gets In On the Fun. All that is real is imagined, and all that is imagined is real. The real and the imagined are not two things - separating them one from another is just another discrimination of the mind, another non-dharma/dharma. A Talk on Pursuing The Truth. Which includes the following passage (my interpretation, mashed up from several different translations):. Monday, September 29, 2014. So by this...
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Water Dissolves Water: August 2015
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Why Can't I Be Different and Original . . . Like Everybody Else? Monday, August 31, 2015. Remnant Of An Old Tree, Lawrenceville, Georgia, August 31, 2015. Sunday, August 30, 2015. Last week, I suggested we should be suspicious of any charitable act that makes us feel warm and fuzzy about ourselves. There is a corollary to this: do not withhold your charity even if it the act of giving makes you feel good about yourself. Zen Master Dogen once said,. Book 1, Chapter 18). Saturday, August 29, 2015. The firs...
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Music Dissolves Water: Snoop Dogg at Sweetwater 420 Fest, Centennial Park, Atlanta - April 17, 2015
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Harmonic Dissolution To A Syncopated Beat. Saturday, April 18, 2015. Snoop Dogg at Sweetwater 420 Fest, Centennial Park, Atlanta - April 17, 2015. But in 2013 the festival began booking better known acts (e.g., George Clinton and P-Funk) and this year, for it's 10th Anniversary, it moved downtown to Centennial Olympic Park with its biggest lineup yet. I got there last night in time to catch Beats Antique. Thievery, of course, is the duo of Washington D.C.'s Ron Garza and Eric Hilton, with lots an...Durin...
