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.
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...
Ancaps often declare, "All rights are property rights." I was thinking about this the other day, in the context of running into libertarians online who insisted that libertarianism supports "the freedom of movement," and realized that this principle actually entails that people without property have no rights at all, let alone any right to "freedom of movement." Of course, immediately, any ancap readers still left here are going to say, "Wait a second! Everyone owns his own body! And so everyone at least has the right to not have his body interfered with." Well, that is true... except that in ancapistan, one has no right to any place to put that body, except if one owns property, or has the permission of at least one property owner to place that body on her land. So, if one is landless and penniless, one had sure better hope that there are kindly disposed property owners aligned in a corridor from wherever one happens to be to wherever the...
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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