Update: I have rewritten this poem. I think it’s much better now.
Art is the politics of the soul, its republic common
But the issues that it wrestles with complex.
Each convocation’s opened by a flamen
But gaveled to its closure by consent.
The natural philosophers of sound
Divine the base mathematics of the wind,
Abstract exalted ratios from the ground,
And reveal [...]
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Posted in Music, Social media on October 24, 2007 | No Comments »
So, I was looking for a place to share my recommendations for music, and get them from others. I realized that what I was looking for didn’t exactly exist. So I invented it. Then I named it. Beautiful Trainwreck. So, that’s pretty much it.
Uh, OK. I’ll describe it.
So, I discover a band, say, Bishop Allen. [...]
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Posted in Music on December 25, 2006 | No Comments »
James Brown
1922-2006
James_Brown, funk
Curt Hopkins
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(Photo by Gabriela Lewton-Leapold via Stan Olmsted.)
Manolin, fastest right hand in the Sacromonte, playing on the Paseo de los Tristes in Granada, Spain.
Tags: Granada, Sacromonte, Gypsies, flamenco
Curt Hopkins
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(Photo by Gabriela Lewton-Leapold via Stan Olmsted.)
This is my friend Manolin Heredia Heredia of the Sacromonte in Granada, Spain. “Un gitano del monte negro!”
Tags: Granada, flamenco, Gypsies, Sacromonte
Curt Hopkins
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OK, you lucky dogs. I’m disgorging on the world my top secret list of band names, album titles and noms de rocke. I give you leave to choose from among them to decorate the next five to ten years of your life as you fruitlessly pursue rock stardom.
I have divided them into sections named accordingly, [...]
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Well, Nick has a sense of humor.
Eric Moore and I wrote this while driving hatpins into our thighs at Elance.
Man, someone should record it, too. I vote for Eric.
superintelligent_sea_cucumber, Elance, Silicon_Valley, Valleywag, Morpheme_Tales
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Posted in Music, Social media on December 19, 2005 | No Comments »
Via Baby Priest, I give you this bit of freakishness. It’s a combination of cleverness and kitsch.
Via Jason Mulgrew, here’s Pandora. Put in a band you like or a song and it suggests (and plays) songs it thinks you will dig. Sometimes the robots know.
iBelieve, Pandora, robots
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My friend Ian, in addition to having a website devoted to the philosophy of science, Project Genesis, has now gone hog wild on blogs. He’s got them for poetry (very nice stuff too, very unusual and attractive) at Star Poems; on various things, including a sound file of one of Ian’s bulerias (a flamenco guitar [...]
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I totally forgot. How could I have forgotten I wonder.
States Rights Records of Portland OR: I almost wept.
Of particular note, Bobby Birdman, The Blow and whatever ((((VVrSSNN)))).
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