January 2010
6 posts
“Music is the voice of the universe… Good music is the harmonization of all...”
– Yehudi Menuhin
“we know the truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.”
– Pascal
"Truth in Music" as a Mission
This article is so interesting, yet so disappointing:
http://www.ism.org/news_campaigns/article/is_there_a_place_for_truth_in_music/
The author, a sociology prof in the UK, posits that “There is no ‘truer truth’ than that which comes through music ( - Robert Browning) and that this makes today’s transformation of music into a tool of social policy all the more tragic.” Ok, I get...
Books!
A conversation with a friend prompted me to compile this list of the books I would never want my library to be without (aka the best books ever)
1. Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood)
2. The Song of the Lark (Willa Cather)
3. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
4. Bad Behavior (Mary Gaitskill)
5. Perfume (Patrick Suskind)
*originally published as “Das...
collect
It’s time to fire the filter on all cylindars! Supersaturation is overcoming our nation one giant package of COSTCO toilet paper at a time, so it’s time to recenter, reconsider, and rethink the things we include in our daily shuffle.
col·lect 1
(k-lkt)
v. col·lect·ed, col·lect·ing, col·lects v.tr. 1. To bring together in a group or mass; gather.2. To accumulate as a hobby or for...