December 2010
31 posts
Symphony No. 1 in D minor; IV. Moderato
Alexander...
“Right now I don’t want to work too much. I’d like to go to Australia… I’m really...”
– Sufjan Stevens in an illuminating interview
Stuff White People Like #18
“An interesting fact about white people is that they firmly believe that all of the world’s problems can be solved through “awareness.” Meaning the process of making other people aware of problems, and then magically someone else like the government will fix it.”
“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil,...”
– Albert Einstein (via mpolinar)
Here, have some Christmas cheer in typical carol...
The Australian 20 Dec - Cut & Paste
Jim Sciutto interviews Julian Assange on American ABC, Saturday:
Sciutto: You've said many times it's a smear campaign. Are you saying in particular that there has been undue influence on the women who made these accusations? I was in the courtroom & there was talk of forcibly spreading her legs, holding her down. These are the allegations.
Assange: Ah, come on. I'm sorry, come on.
Sciutto: I meant no insult.
Assange: Tabloid schmuck.
To You by Walt Whitman
Whoever you are, I fear you are walking the walks of
dreams,
I fear these supposed realities are to melt from under your
feet and hands,
Even now your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners,
troubles, follies, costume, crimes, dissipate away from you,
Your true soul and body appear before me,
They stand forth out of affairs, out of commerce, shops,
work, farms, clothes, the...
guerilla orchestras →
(schubertiads,capoccioni)
La Mer, the original, by Charles Tenet
WatchJoseph Gordon Levitt on music..
kind of cool →
“Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on ‘Ode to Joy’ for a Prepared Piano,” a trenchant, newly acquired work by Allora & Calzadilla
“I won’t shut up. Even when we’re underwater, when the bubbles pop,...”
– Ronny Jumeau, chief of the three-member delegation from Seychelles, an Indian Ocean archipelago.
Why do we hate modern classical music? →
“The music profession became focused on the manic polishing of a display of masterpieces. By the time Schoenberg, Stravinsky and company introduced a new vocabulary of chords and rhythms, the game was fixed against them.”
“What must fall away is the notion of classical music as a reliable conduit for consoling beauty – a kind of spa treatment for tired souls. Such an attitude...