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Poetry I Have Known And Loved
(Sorry, the title made me grin.) So I used to host a poetry open-mike. I like some poetry. Not all of it. Not even much of it. But here are some links to poems I really like. I realize none of this is particularly obscure or controversial, but hey, you might find something here you’re […]
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Danteworlds Welcome to Danteworlds, an integrated multimedia journey–combining artistic images, textual commentary, and audio recordings–through the three realms of the afterlife (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise) presented in Dante’s Divine Comedy. The site is structu (tags: literature dante interesting) CSS Gallery Web Design Gallery For Inspiration Nice gallery of CSS frippery (tags: css design inspiration) An Interview […]
Am I The Only One Who's Noticed This?
Adam Sandler in the recent film Reign Over Me Author Neil Gaiman It’s more obvious in other shots, but I swear to God….
Quote Of The Day
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. –Denis Diderot
When It's Perfect
I finished a new song today. Well, not a new song, precisely, but an older one that I sort of re-worked. And it’s perfect. The mix is perfect, the notes are perfect, the sound is perfect. It’s precisely what I wanted it to be, no compromises. I can’t stop listening to it. This is not […]
Interview with Burial
The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music: Article I don’t know anything about this kind of music, but I love Sam Cooke. I don’t know what it was about his songs, but he’d have some songs, and things on the surface were normal or happy, he’d be singing about having a party, there’s cokes in the […]
The Islam Problem
In an essay for the Guardian UK, writer Ronan Bennett takes novelist Martin Amis to task for his alleged racism towards Muslims. We can dispense with Amis’s polite fiction that he is talking about “Islamism”; there are just too many generalisations (“The impulse towards rational inquiry,” Amis wrote elsewhere, “is by now very weak in […]
RIP Karlheinz Stockhausen
German composer Stockhausen is dead – Yahoo! News Stockhausen’s electronic compositions are a radical departure from musical tradition and incorporate influences as varied as psychology, the visual arts and the acoustics of a particular concert hall. I was never a big fan of Stockhausen from a listener’s perspective — his work isn’t very accessible — […]
Wow, That's An Unfortunate Domain Name…
Apparently “kiddietoothfiddler.com” was taken. (Seen at a bus stop here in Vegas.)