music

  • La Cara Infinita

    First… NSFW–little bit of explicit nudity and it might freak out some of your more conservative friends/co-workers. Currenly, the favorite song of Christopher, my buddy-friend-guy. I have really been digging it too. I find myself going around whistling and singing… Continue reading

    La Cara Infinita
  • Grace Jones – Use Me

    My buddy-friend-guy Chris listens to so much great music and watches so many awesome videos. And until recently when his searches landed on Ms. Jones, I had forgotten how greatly I enjoyed her music way back in the 80’s. Continue reading

  • and – or

    “and” – the quality of having “or” – the quality of not-having a note struck or plucked, blown or sung… having sound: hearing having context: recognizing having start: grasping having finish: letting-go a note giving way to silence which gives way to… Continue reading

    and – or
  • House of God

    Awesomeness. Shake my sisters and brothers of the Ether… Shake it! Related articles New Dub Gabriel Album Out Today! (midnightraverblog.com) Demo: Jack the Reaper steals your heart and soul in this SNES-inspired platformer (indiegames.com) The Eater of Worlds:HERO Chapter 8… Continue reading

    House of God
  • Walking Meditation 20130309

    “Everybody knows how useful it is to be useful; nobody knows how useful it is to be useless.” –Zhuangzi Contemplating how seeking after the future makes all things but mere tools on the way to success in a later-on nowhere… Continue reading

    Walking Meditation 20130309
  • Finding Beauty Beyond Clever Devices

    “Many contemporary composers have been building walls of sounds following their own clever devices. But then, who lives inside those rooms?” — Toru Takemitsu “The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I… Continue reading

    Finding Beauty Beyond Clever Devices
  • Time to Improvise

    unfueled – uncompromisedundefined – unconditionedunbounded – unforeseenuncanny – unbornmindfulnessliberationnirvana I had a most wonderful & meandering mindwalk with my beloved Collin Hauser yesterday while hanging around Big Mike’s Cofffee Shop. We wandered wondering down this Platonic avenue and then through… Continue reading

    Time to Improvise
  • I Want You Back

    Really a superb cover. Related articles Ex-Temptations singer Richard Street dies at 70 (kfwbam.com) Michael Jackson Hits Broadway! – First Look at Motown: The Musical (people.com) Mighty Motown: A Conversation with Berry Gordy (essence.com) Continue reading

    I Want You Back
  • You’re Too Strong Not to Keep on Keepin’ On

    A blessed Friday to all throughout the world.. Now, get up and shake that ass! Related articles Vault: Gladys Knight at 1983 Plumfest (newsnet5.com) Soul Train: Gladys Knight & The Pips – I Heard It Through the Grapevine (soulbrotherspeaks.com) Video:… Continue reading

    You’re Too Strong Not to Keep on Keepin’ On
  • Shadow Pico

    One Direction as you have never seen them before… but would probably like to again.   Related topics: More the One Direction in which Millennials can Thrive (keithwaynebrown.com)  nesh nesh nesh (keithwaynebrown.com) A Lilting Life at Leisure in the Great Dance (keithwaynebrown.com) One… Continue reading

  • Daodejing 22

    #22* Sacrifice the part & save the whole. Bend that to make this straight. Hollow that to make this full. That withers, this blooms. Lose that, gain this. Determined then, confused now. Thus the sages insist on the one as… Continue reading

  • Roman Ingarden (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

    An important philosopher whose work should be read by anyone who has an interest in grasping the ontology of the work of art. This is especially true of his work on music & film. Roman Ingarden (1893 – 1970) was… Continue reading

  • Scape by Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers

    Not one to advertise things for the iPad, but so many of my buddies are musicians who will find this of great interest. Continue reading

    Scape by Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers
  • Book Review: John Cage biography explores Zen Buddhist influence » TCPalm.com

    In a new biography of this pioneering artist, art critic Kay Larson links Cage’s daring presentation of “the sound of no sound” to his growing interest in Eastern religion, particularly Zen Buddhism, at a time of personal crisis in the… Continue reading

  • gospel music

    I am from a family that likes to sing. I started as a young boy in the mid-60’s singing along with my mom and aunts and my brother. Lots of religious music infuses my way of looking at the world.… Continue reading