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		<title>Answers in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: xkcd #936, on password strength. Click image to enlarge; see xkcd itself for the full six panels and the punchline.] From whiskey river: This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal. (Dag Hammarskjöld [source]) &#8230;and: Ch&#8217;ui the draftsman Could draw more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: Pendyrus Male Choir, &#8220;Cwm Rhonnda&#8220;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/02/midweek-music-break-pendyrus-male-choir-cwm-rhonnda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Midweek Music Break]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: the valley of the Rhondda] I&#8217;ve mentioned before that while writing Seems to Fit, I used a variety of musical playlists to put me in the proper frame of mind for a given chapter. The selections on the day&#8217;s playlist were among those which (so I imagined) would be favorites of the character most heavily [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: Loreena McKennitt, &#8220;Down by the Sally Gardens&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/01/midweek-music-break-loreena-mckennitt-down-by-the-sally-gardens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Loreena McKennitt seems to love anything which hitches the adjective Celtic to the noun music. She&#8217;s traveled the world to record music both Celtic and Celtic-like, often (even on brand-new songs) using instruments which might have been recognized 2,000 years ago across the whole range of the Celts&#8217; distribution. She&#8217;s certainly traveled farther afield than many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: Dominant Legs, &#8220;Make Time for the Boy&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a group named &#8220;Dominant Legs,&#8221; what in the hell sort of music should we expect? Tina Turner in black leather, maybe? I can&#8217;t say I have a ready answer to the question. But it wouldn&#8217;t have been, for me, something like this: a Lynchian, sweetly blissed-out, dream-dancing, burbling-organ, saxophone-accented, group-sing throwback of a pop song: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You Didn&#8217;t Forget the Words, Did You?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Video: a zebra teaches a little girl to scat-sing. Found it at Zooglobble, home of "kids' music worth sharing." Warning: do not visit that site if you are even mildly distractable.] My Dad taught me many things about music, especially jazz, even (I&#8217;m certain) in ways which I have yet to understand or even recognize. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Absorbing and the Absorbed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: a Menger sponge overgrown with vines, found here. Wikipedia explains how to construct a real Menger sponge, noting -- without elaboration -- that the resulting object "simultaneously exhibits an infinite surface area and encloses zero volume."*] From whiskey river: You know when you see something like a marvelous mountain against the blue sky, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: Booker T. and the MGs, &#8220;Time Is Tight&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/01/midweek-music-break-booker-t-and-the-mgs-time-is-tight/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/01/midweek-music-break-booker-t-and-the-mgs-time-is-tight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When people think of music in the 1960s-&#8217;70s, of soul music, they think automatically of the Motown record label. But there was a heck of a lot going on further south then, too, down in Memphis: the home of Stax Records. Originally Satellite Records, the company was forced to change its name in response to a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>35</slash:comments>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Right in Front of You</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/01/its-right-in-front-of-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: unretouched photograph of an anamorphically-painted building interior, by French artist George Rousse; I found it here. As suggested at that site, be sure to see the video about Rousse's "Durham (NC) project." And while you're at it, check out the similar but sometimes entire city-sized work of Swiss artist Felice Varini. I couldn't decide which artist's work to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: James &amp; Bobby Purify, &#8220;I&#8217;m Your Puppet&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/01/midweek-music-break-james-bobby-purify-im-your-puppet/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/01/midweek-music-break-james-bobby-purify-im-your-puppet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So there was this front-page headline in the morning paper: Music legend Robert Dickey dies at age 72 Er, I thought; Who?!? I mean, I hardly know every (well, possibly any) music legend in town. But I&#8217;ve been here for almost 20 years and couldn&#8217;t recall the name at all. As it happens, Dickey &#8212; that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: Erik Satie</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/12/midweek-music-break-erik-satie/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/12/midweek-music-break-erik-satie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early in RAMH&#8216;s history, a post here covered what I always think of as &#8220;thought music&#8221;: music to listen to while doing things other than music &#8212; specifically, things which require mental activity: writing, programming, art&#8230; &#8212; music, ideally, to stimulate thought. One of my favorite classical composers of thought music is Erik Satie. (He was [...]]]></description>
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