I like From a Distance. I think it sounds something like Pink Floyd, early 1970s, before Dark Side… I don’t know, sometime around Meddle? Bob seems to be the resident music critic, maybe he knows better. Perhaps as a product of the 1970s I think the song needs a guitar solo. Without some demonstration of musicianship, it just “seems to keep going.” Show your chops.
My eight year old liked the I Walk A Little video. He thinks the singer looks younger in this video, and he likes seeing people do flips. The reason I invited him into my office to watch the videos was to show him the mustache. Earlier today he told me that he wants a goatee when he’s older, not an imperial. I was impressed, he really did say “a goatee, not an imperial” so I asked him what he thought of the singer’s facial hair. He reiterated that he wants a goatee, not an imperial.
This non-producer thought the production of both videos was pretty damn good.
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
I am currently reading The Master and His Emissary , which appears to be an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience literature well enough to say for sure, yet.) But then on page 186 I find: "Asking cognition, however, to give a perspective on the relationship between cognition and affect is like asking astronomer in the pre-Galilean geocentric world, whether, in his opinion, the sun moves round the earth of the earth around the sun. To ask a question alone would be enough to label one as mad." OK, this is garbage. First of all, it should be pre-Copernican, not pre-Galilean. But much worse is that people have seriously been considering heliocentrism for many centuries before Copernicus. Aristarchus had proposed a heliocentric model in the 4th-century BC. It had generally been considered wrong, but not "mad." (And wrong for scientific reasons: Why, for instance, did we not observe stellar parallax?) And when Copernicus propose
I guess no one heeded your warning, Gene.
ReplyDeleteI guess no one heeded your warning, Gene.
ReplyDeleteI like From a Distance. I think it sounds something like Pink Floyd, early 1970s, before Dark Side… I don’t know, sometime around Meddle? Bob seems to be the resident music critic, maybe he knows better. Perhaps as a product of the 1970s I think the song needs a guitar solo. Without some demonstration of musicianship, it just “seems to keep going.” Show your chops.
ReplyDeleteMy eight year old liked the I Walk A Little video. He thinks the singer looks younger in this video, and he likes seeing people do flips. The reason I invited him into my office to watch the videos was to show him the mustache. Earlier today he told me that he wants a goatee when he’s older, not an imperial. I was impressed, he really did say “a goatee, not an imperial” so I asked him what he thought of the singer’s facial hair. He reiterated that he wants a goatee, not an imperial.
This non-producer thought the production of both videos was pretty damn good.
Mrs. Hymn, they were all so stunned (except for Woody) that they could not comment.
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty #@!!&^%**@! impressive, even if I got no audio even at max volume.
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