July 2011
3 posts
WatchRed Fly/Blue Bottle full show at EMPAC.
WatchBonnie Brown Eyes from carolina songcorp on Vimeo.
WatchAntony Flew from carolina songcorp on Vimeo.
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
2 posts
April 2011
1 post
March 2011
6 posts
February 2011
15 posts
Is socio-cultural difference manifested most fully in *speech*: the aural, rather than the visual? Perhaps the blind can *discriminate* just as, if not more effectively than, the sighted.
WatchOlivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
La Nativité du Seigneur
Nine meditations on the birth of Jesus
played on the magnificent 1932 Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ by
James Kennerley
with readings and a live video projection of the organ console
Saturday, February 26, at 3:00 PM
ADMISSION FREE
The Church of Saint Mary the Virgin
145 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036
...
“Magical feeling/Life without gravity”
“now that we are relatively free, we need to ask again what life is for”
Watch“…the question we should ask is not whether there is an instinct to kill, but rather, whether killing is something that we value.”
January 2011
13 posts
There’s a fine line between powerful polemic and intemperate tantrum, upon which Anis Shivani’s Huffington Posts teeter harrowingly. But beneath the bluster there is usually the germ of a worthwhile insight, as with his most recent, “rules for writers.”
Reading over the rules, it struck me that someone has been practicing almost exactly the same tenets for over three...
WatchThe premise that Galileo’s application of mathematical models to Dante’s hell laid the foundations of modern theoretical physics may well be true as far as it goes.
But this of course misses a much larger point. Galileo’s brave debunking of centuries of jive “science”, much of it done in bad faith, came at a price. His refusal to approach the Inferno on its own terms...
Adam Kirsch on Joseph Brodsky in Tablet.
Also see Brodsky’s Nobel lecture, one of the most masterful apologies for poetry I know, and a sterling example of the nobility of humility.
I once had the pleasure of “translating” Brodsky in a workshop led by one of his proteges (and actual translators), the formidable Glyn Maxwell.
So here goes nothing…
A LITTLE SONG by...
December 2010
11 posts
Watch“What is a lyricist except a poet who has a possibility of making cash?
It’s a guy who can sing.”
Watch“Having been given nothing that corresponds to the high opinion he has of his personal significance (which he learned, indirectly, from Christianity), the anxious modern person believes, nihilistically, that he is on his own to make his world worthy of him.”
