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And Counter-Intuition Replied…
[Video: studio version of "I've Seen All Good People," by Yes] From whiskey river: Not a few, but everyone, makes art. There is no art beyond the sensibility of the people confronting it: art is an interaction between object and beholder. The idea of a human being forced to concede the superiority of a work [...]
Midweek Music Break: The Band, “Rockin’ Chair”
[The Band (circa 1969), left to right: Richard Manuel, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Robbie Robertson] I‘ve posted about The Band exactly once, and barely then — tacking “All La Glory” onto the end of a whiskey river Friday post in December, 2008. I’ve not been ignoring them offline; in fact, as with (to take [...]
Intersections Close By, Milestones Passed
[Image: the cruise ship Queen Elizabeth 2 and the New York City skyline at night (January, 2011)] From whiskey river: Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range [...]
Midweek Music Break: Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, with Warren Haynes, “I’d Rather Go Blind”
[Video from In Performance at the White House: Red, Hot, and Blues] [Original lyrics, by Etta James] I first encountered the name Derek Trucks within a few years after I’d moved down here. Some kid was doing a show at a club in town — an amazing blues guitarist, said the newspaper preview, and only [...]
Back from a Break
[*crickets*] Wow. Amazing how quickly TheGoogle turns its back on you when you just, like, step away from the blog for a few days… (Well, to be fair, I’d stopped thinking about TheGoogle during that time, too. Chicken, meet egg.) Regular broadcasting to be resumed tomorrow. In the meantime, I’ll just be tidying up a [...]
Laughing, Refreshed, in Its Face
[Video: scene from The Princess Bride -- the Man in Black faces off against his cleverest adversary, Vizzini the nearly-inconceivable Sicilian. You can find a transcript (among other Vizzini-isms) at this IMDB page.] From whiskey river: To get through this life and see it realistically poses a problem. There is a dark, evil, hopeless side to life [...]
Midweek Music Break: The Ramsey Lewis Trio, “The ‘In’ Crowd” and “Wade in the Water”
[Image: Ramsey Lewis, by Kagan McLeod. (Original here, at McLeod's blog of "music-themed ink drawings" called Oooh, and I Like It.) McLeod says in the comments there that he drew this "straight to ink," without benefit of pencil sketch; both this technique and the drawing per se, I think, parallel the experience of listening to [...]
Plugged Right Between the Eyes
I’ve been following the Letters of Note blog for a good while now. The curator/editor, Shaun Usher, collects samples of real letters — often but not always from “famous” people — on matters of real import, and/or in styles worth sharing. Today’s entry features a 1914 letter from Jack London to a young aspiring writer named [...]
The Propagational Library: A Brief Lull
I’m not going to be writing (i.e., posting) new installments in the series for a couple of weeks; the next piece will be written and posted, if all goes well, on Saturday, April 21. (I’ll still be doing other stuff at Running After My Hat during that time, though.) In the meantime… A few people [...]
Endistanced
[Video: zooming in from a Milky Way-wide view all the way to galactic cluster NGC 3324, dubbed the Gabriela Mistral Nebula for its resemblance to the profile of the Chilean Nobel Prize-winning poet. Music by John Dyson; original video at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) site.] From whiskey river: And as you sit on the hillside, or lie [...]
