Tag Archives: music

“We should be more like …” [Grimes]

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Steve

Salon has a post (“I don’t want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living”) about/by the musician/artist Grimes. It’s a name I’d heard before …

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Genre and Gender: Metal Version

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Steve

The other day the A.V. Club (in the guise of Jason Heller) posted “Black Sabbath, Dust, and the myth of the ‘metallectual’” in response to an ill-conceived and condescending WSJ article/post. Buried in the comments user ‘username too long’ submitted … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Tasks & Treats

Posted on December 25, 2012 by Steve

In summary, before going to Ms. S.’s parents’ place:

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Monday Meditations

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Steve

Music, munchies and more.

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Class dismissed …

Posted on June 30, 2007 by Steve

… so for some reason I started up “X-Men 3” via mplayer … perhaps boredom. I know I should pull a book off the shelf, either fiction or non-fiction for my work … or non-fiction that’s unrelated to my work … Continue reading →

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It’s fish-fry-Friday, but I had turkey.

Posted on June 29, 2007 by Steve

Let’s clear some links: Occam’s Razor: a webcomic, the first I’ll post today, but not the last. In Praise of Bullshit: it cites On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt. Pinky TA: a second webcomic, but not the last. A Lesson Is … Continue reading →

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Thorsday — no thunder

Posted on June 28, 2007 by Steve

At Fair Trade I finished Prague, Arthur Phillips’s first novel. He has a new one out there, Angelica, which Salon recently reviewed: The extravagantly talented novelist Arthur Phillips seems to be making a grand tour of all the best literary … Continue reading →

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Hump Day

Posted on June 27, 2007 by Steve

The middle of the week; a meeting with Hans on Friday. Today I decided to watch the new Die Hard movie — Live Free of Die Hard.

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More Kant, less Life

Posted on June 26, 2007 by Steve

This evening I was reading a book on Kant & Schiller & Aesthetics … well, between episodes of rewatching Matrix Revolutions. Horst Nitschack’s “Kritik der ästhetischen Wirklichkeitskonstitution” — Critique of the aesthetic constitution of reality — from Verlag Roter Stern, … Continue reading →

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Old week or new week?

Posted on June 24, 2007 by Steve

I awoke on time this morning, having set my alarm so I could make it to town for brunch/lunch and writing with Richard and Amy. I went back to — a fitful — sleep for a while with a couple … Continue reading →

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