Happy Independence Day!
And out of gratitude to the French for their indispensable contributions to the American victory, here’s Derrida’s essay ‘Declarations of Independence’.
Entries Tagged as ‘Music’
July 4, 2009
Give me liberty or give me death!
December 15, 2008
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Damn.
Y’know, given all the amphetamine that passes through human users into the sewage system, then into the water supply, and, presumably, up through the roots of thirsty flowers, it’s about time someone corrected Rimsky-Korsakov’s bumblebee for 21rst century accuracy.
November 2, 2008
…but so much music wounded me [!]
My Saturday Evening Playlist: made with only the finest Aural Ingredients (via Youtube)
First 10
1. The Mahavishnu Orchestra – You Know, You Know (live)
2. Medeski, Martin, & Wood – Nocturne
3. John Zorn’s Masada – Gevurah (live)
4. Buckethead – Padmasana (live)
5. Gordian Knot – Rivers Dancing
6. Claude Debussy – Deux Arabesques No. 1 (Ichiro Nodaira)
7. Olivier Messiaen – Le [...]
October 30, 2008
National Funk Day
It occurs to me that there are only four US holidays in honor of a single individual: President’s Day (which is George Washington’s birthday), Columbus Day, Martin Luther King Day and Christmas. Not that I’m one to complain about a day off, but doesn’t Columbus Day sit uneasily with the other three?
Follow-up question: if you [...]
March 30, 2008
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too…
It’s 3am. Everything is drenched in sweat and smoke and salt water. If nothing else, electing to attend a counterculture-infatuated college in Florida has helped me rekindle my adoration for the macabre swamp-psychadelia of Lousianna’s Acid Bath…
A creature made of sunshine,
her eyes were like the sky.
Rabbit howls like something old as we twitch to her lullaby.
The scalpel shines [...]
