For the music box of the title, see the previous post.
See also Mazzola on the Glass Bead Game
(Facebook date June 7, 2016)
and the Log24 post Symmetry (May 3, 2016).
Friday, April 21, 2017
Music Box — The Theory
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Music Box
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Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Bosch House
Continued from Music Box – The Theory (April 21)
in memory of jazz enthusiast Ann Sneed,
who reportedly died in Las Vegas at 87 on that date.
Hollywood homicide detective Harry Bosch at home.
See also Mother of Beauty (April 7, 2004).
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Sunday, February 16, 2014
Raiders of the Lost…
Music Box … Continues.
Today's print New York Times has articles on experimental and
New Age music —
In the Church of Difficult Music and
For New Age, the Next Generation.
I prefer Old Age music… for instance, that of Tony Rice —
also the subject of an article in today's print Times .
The Times image at right above is of Croagh Patrick.
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014
But Seriously…
(A sequel to yesterday's Raiders of the Lost Music Box)
See, in this book, "Walsh Functions: A Digital Fourier Series,"
by Benjamin Jacoby (BYTE , September 1977). Some context:
Symmetry of Walsh Functions.
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Sunday June 18, 2006
For Mel Gibson,
who may or may not
see a parallel here.
who may or may not
see a parallel here.
IMDb Trivia for Music Box (1989)
- After the movie was released, screenwriter Joe Eszterhas‘s own father Istvan Eszterhas was accused of war crimes in Hungary by printing anti-Semitic editorials and even organizing a book burning.
- Both Kirk Douglas and Walter Matthau wanted to play the father….
Once a son,
now a father:
now a father:
“He spent his earliest years in post WWII–refugee camps. He came to America and grew up in Cleveland–stealing cars, rolling drunks, battling priests, nearly going to jail. He became the screenwriter of the worldwide hits Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge, and Flashdance. He also wrote the legendary disasters Showgirls and Jade. The rebellion never ended, even as his films went on to gross more than a billion dollars at the box office and he became the most famous–or infamous–screenwriter in Hollywood. Joe Eszterhas is a complex and paradoxical figure: part outlaw and outsider combined with equal parts romantic and moralist. More than one person has called him ‘the devil.’ He has been referred to as ‘the most reviled man in America.’ But Time asked, ‘If Shakespeare were alive today, would his name be Joe Eszterhas?'”
— Random House promotional material
And eventually to become
a holy ghost…
a holy ghost…
“Yea, though I walk
through the valley of death
I will fear no evil,
for I am the meanest
son of a bitch
in the valley.”
in The Silver Crown,
by Joel Rosenberg
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Thursday, April 7, 2005
Thursday April 7, 2005
ART WARS Toys
From Maureen Dowd’s New York Times column of June 9, 2002:
“The shape of the government is not as important as the policy of the government. If he makes the policy aggressive and pre-emptive, the president can conduct the war on terror from the National Gallery of Art.”
Last year’s suggested ART WARS toy:
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Today’s birthdays: Francis Ford Coppola and From MindfulGroup.com:
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The Coliseum Builder Block System can be used to recreate the Roman Coliseum. Reenact ancient Gladiator matches and bring Ancient Rome into your home. 
This year’s suggested ART WARS toy:
To order, see the
Amazing Music Box & Gifts Company.
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Thursday, September 25, 2003
Thursday September 25, 2003
In Memory of Playwright
Herb Gardner
“Up for auction is a Hawaiian hula girl music box. It plays ‘Tiny Bubbles’ and spins around. It is approx. 12″ tall and the top part of the body is made of hard plastic. It is in great condition.”
Aloha.
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Sunday, March 2, 2003
Sunday March 2, 2003
7:20 PM CALI Time
The Bus and the Bead Game:
The Communion of Saints as
the Association of Ideas
On this date in 1955, “Bus Stop,” a play by William Inge, opened at the Music Box Theatre in New York City.
“I seemed to be standing in a bus queue by the side of a long, mean street.”
— C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce, opening sentence
Today’s birthdays:
Sam Houston
Dr. Seuss
Kurt Weill
Mikhail Gorbachev
Tom Wolfe
Desi Arnaz
Jennifer Jones
Karen Carpenter
and many others.
Today is the feast day of
St. Randolph Scott,
St. Sandy Dennis,
St. D. H. Lawrence, and
St. Charlie Christian.
“Your guitar, it sounds so sweet and clear…”
— Karen Carpenter singing “Superstar“
“And if I find me a good man,
I won’t be back at all.”
See (and hear) also “Seven Come Eleven,” played by St. Charlie Christian.
One might (disregarding separation in time and space — never major hindrances to the saints) imagine C. S. Lewis in Heaven listening to a conversation among the four saints listed above. For more on the communion of saints, see my entry “State of the Communion” of Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2003. This entry, quoting an old spiritual, concluded with “Now hear the word of the Lord” — followed by this notation:
7:11 PM.
See also the N.Y. Times obituary of John P. Thompson of Dallas, former 7-Eleven chairman, who died, as it happened, on that very day (Jan. 28). See also Karen Carpenter’s “first take luck.”
The sort of association of ideas described in the “Communion” entry is not unrelated to the Glasperlenspiel, or Glass Bead Game, of Hermann Hesse. For a somewhat different approach to the Game, see
by John S. Wilson, group theorist and head of the Pure Mathematics Group at the University of Birmingham in England. Wilson is “not convinced that Hesse’s… game is only a metaphor.” Neither am I.
For the association-of-ideas approach, see the page cited in my “Communion” entry,
“A Game Designer’s Holy Grail,”
and (if you can find a copy) one of the greatest forgotten books of the twentieth century,
The Third Word War,
by Ian Lee (A&W Publishers, Inc., New York, 1978). As Lee remarks concerning the communion of saints and the association of ideas,
“The association is the idea.”
Tuesday, August 6, 2002
Tuesday August 6, 2002
In honor of
Pope Callistus III, and
all of whom died on this date:
A lavender love butterfly vignette…
If you remember something there
That glided past you,
Followed close by heavy breathing,
Don't be concerned. It will not harm you;
It's only me, pursuing something
I'm not sure of.
and a
But seriously…
A few words in memory of a great mathematician, André Weil, who died on August 6, 1998:
"I wonder if it is because to-night my soul has really died that I feel at the moment something like peace. Or is it because right through hell there is a path, as Blake well knew, and though I may not take it, sometimes lately in dreams I have been able to see it?"
— Malcolm Lowry, 1947, Under the Volcano
There is a link on the Grand Finale site above to a site on British Columbia, which to Lowry symbolized heaven on earth. See also my website Shining Forth, the title of which is not unrelated to the August 6, 1993 encyclical of Pope John Paul II.
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