Is experience the best teacher?
At Thursday's opening night of U2's "Innocence and Experience"
tour, The Edge falls off the stage —
… Or is the best teacher Buddy Rich?
Bus scene from the recent film "Whiplash" —
Saturday, May 16, 2015
Songs of Experience
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Friday, May 15, 2015
Plan 9 Revisited
Music to wake the dead …
For the fictional corpse Sean Casey of "Whiplash" —
The music of the late jazz drummer Jerome Cooper.
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Thursday, May 14, 2015
The Faustian Merry-Go-Round
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Soul
Nonsense…
See Gary Zukav, Harvard ’64, in this journal.
and damned nonsense —
“Every institution has a soul.”
— Gerald Holton in Harvard Gazette today
Commentary —
“The Ferris wheel came into view again….”
— Malcom Lowry, Under the Volcano
See also Holton in a Jan. 1977 interview:
“If people have souls, and I think a few have, it shows….”
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