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Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:42:50 -0400

pandamonium….

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Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:56:01 -0400

"You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch."

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:10:03 -0400

““You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.””

- Ernest Hemingway

I sure do…

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:27:35 -0400

I sure do…

from Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:29:40 -0400

from Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

"I was within and without, simultaneausly enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of..."

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:26:56 -0400

“I was within and without, simultaneausly enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:37:29 -0500

"accept the unchangeable…. change the unacceptable"

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:44:24 -0500

“accept the unchangeable…. change the unacceptable”

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Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:43:57 -0500

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Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:59:48 -0400

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Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:58:46 -0400

"I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the..."

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:57:58 -0400

“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.”

- Ernest Hemingway

leadingtone: franciscarey: musicproblems THIS. You want to...

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:22:13 -0400

leadingtone:

franciscarey:

musicproblems

THIS. You want to talk about the “special understanding” of music musicians have that non-musicians don’t? One of my biggest professional pet-peeves plays out much like this every time:

Arrive at mansion to play cocktail piano for an assemblage of drunk rich people.

Strut over to gorgeous, gleaming, faultlessly polished grand or baby-grand piano, which may or may not be situated right next to enormous picture windows overlooking the city, the surrounding country, or the Japanese garden out back, depending.

Sit down and discover that the instrument has not been tuned in at least 2 or 3 years; often keys stick or do not sound, action is stiff and uneven, tone is terrible. Prepare for sustain pedal to noticeably decrease in functionality over the course of the evening. Tacky Reader’s Digest pop music anthology may need to be removed from music stand before you can begin.

What is supposed to be tasteful and sophisticated entertaining for money turns into the slow, methodical excoriation of your own ears for money. Tipsy rich people may complain about the music “not sounding right.” Until, that is, they become totally hammered rich people, at which point you are alone in your sufferings, at least up to the point where the inevitable group singalong of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” “Moon River,” “You’re So Vain,” or “Love Lift Us Up Where We Belong” ensues. Whatever the selection, you will have to repeat it at least twice “to get everybody in there this time.” But there is an upside: at this time, it is acceptable for to you to remove your jacket and begin drinking while churning out unimaginative renditions of Cole Porter numbers.

Two to three hours and several stiff ones later—when you notice that there are only a few drunk rich people remaining and that they seem to be wholly absorbed in gossiping about everyone who has already left—get ready to spend a good ten minutes making the incredibly sloshed host or hostess understand that it’s time for him/her to give you your check; if you succeed, the document in question is likely to have liquor spilled on it when the drafter staggers out from some back room. You should inspect it to ensure it’s neither made out to nor signed by PIANO or MUSIC. As you take your leave, compliment the household on its beautiful furnishings and gently suggest that one piece of furniture might very much benefit from a tuning and voicing sometime real, real soon. “Oh, sure! (hiccup) My daughter (hiccup) took some lessons once, and we just loved your music. Goodnight!” is the inevitable reply.

Go to the bank the next day; on the way there, continually repeat to yourself “I am not a whore. I am not a whore. I am not…” Then go pay your cell phone or utility bill, whichever is most overdue, and return home to work on your latest choral-orchestral masterwork, constantly exerting the effort required not to subconsciously infuse it with Cole Porter or Carly Simon. Accept that “Mandy” by Barry Manilow will work its way into a counter-melody somehow.

Drift off (probably with your head on the desk) to uneasy dreams of spreadsheets to be formatted and flats of soft drinks and canned goods to be stocked, psycho-jetsam from your last few temp jobs.

But take heart—Brahms and coffee in the morning will make it all better.

Flying With My Self° (by Azdine Spyro)

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:59:57 -0400

Flying With My Self° (by Azdine Spyro)

"Rule no. 1 of tumblr…. never speak of tumblr on facebook!"

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:37:05 -0400

“Rule no. 1 of tumblr…. never speak of tumblr on facebook!”

The Mersenne Star

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:58:28 -0400

The Mersenne Star

"This world is a great wiggle-effect. The clouds are wiggling. The waters are wiggling. The clouds..."

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:28:00 -0400

“This world is a great wiggle-effect. The clouds are wiggling. The waters are wiggling. The clouds are wiggling, bouncing. People- but people are always trying to straighten things out. You see we live in a rectangular box, all the time; everything is straightened out. Wherever you look around in nature you find things often straightened out. They’re always trying to put things in boxes. Those boxes are classified. Words are made from some boxes. But the real world is wiggly, if you can believe it. Now when you have a wiggle like a cloud, how much wiggle is a wiggle? Well you have to draw the line somewhere, so people come to sorts of agreements about, ah, how much wiggle is a wiggle, that is to say a thing. One wiggle- always reduce one wiggle to a sub wiggles. Or see it as a subordinate wiggle of a bigger wiggle. But there’s no fixed rule about it.”

- Starfucker

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Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:28:38 -0400

abcworldnews: Our visual tribute to the space program as it...

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 22:25:10 -0400

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abcworldnews:

Our visual tribute to the space program as it winds down with the final shuttle set to land early tomorrow morning. From space walks, to the orbiting earth to some amazing space suits ala 1959 there are so many incredible images to remember.

Want more? Well here ya go!

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