“The film captures the offbeat time warp of the present-day
desert cities around Palm Springs, with the movie being
partly filmed in Palm Desert.”
See also posts on College of the Desert.
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Palm Desert’s Got Talent
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Thursday, July 2, 2015
Deepening the Spielfeld
(Continued from Friday, June 26, 2015)
In memory of an architect —
Donald Wexler, an architect whose innovative steel houses
and soaring glass-fronted terminal at the Palm Springs
International Airport helped make Palm Springs, Calif.,
a showcase for midcentury modernism, died on Friday
[June 26, 2015] at his home in Palm Desert. He was 89.
— William Grimes in this morning's New York Times
For a different sort of architecture in Palm Desert, see…
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Saturday, September 27, 2014
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Mystery
"Welcome to America." — Harrison Ford in "The Devil's Own"
On readings at Mass on Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014 —
"Isaiah 55:8-9: 'For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, says the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.'
The Gospel reading… was a perfect complement to
the passage from Isaiah…."
The America piece quoting Isaiah was titled "The Mystery of God."
The author "currently works at Xavier College Preparatory
in Palm Desert, CA, where he teaches theology…."
Related material: This journal that Sunday morning:
See also "The Mystery of God, Part II" —
Other secular stand-ins for "the thing one doesn't know"—
The mysteries of the late Joseph D. McNamara.
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Simple Tune
1 2 3 4 5 9 8 6 7
220 * (1/4) = 55 = A1
220 * (2/4) = 110 = A2
220 * (3/4) = 165 = approximately E3 (164.8)
220 * (4/4) = 220 = A3
220 * (5/4) = 275 = approximately C♯4/D♭4 (277.2)
220 * (6/4) = 330 = approximately E4 (329.6)
220 * (7/4) = 385 = approximately G4 (392.0)
220 * (8/4) = 440 = A4
220 * (9/4) = 495 = approximately B4 (493.9)
Exact frequencies (such as 277.2) are from Wikipedia’s Piano key frequencies.
“It may be quite simple, but now that it’s done….“
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Monday, October 10, 2011
10/10
See last year's Day of the Tetraktys.
Those who prefer Hebrew to Greek may consult Coxeter and the Aleph.
See also last midnight's The Aleph as well as Saturday morning's
An Ordinary Evening in Hartford and Saturday evening's
For Whom the Bell (with material from March 20, 2011).
For connoisseurs of synchronicity, there is …
THE LAST CONCERT
Cached from http://mrpianotoday.com/tourdates.htm —
The last concert of Roger Williams — March 20, 2011 —
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March 20 |
"Roger Williams" In Concert, |
Palm Desert, CA |
Background music… Theme from "Somewhere in Time"
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