Satisfaction is a product not of where you are, but of where you’re going. To get calculistic, it ain’t about your value, it’s about your first derivative (and maybe your second). In this light, statements like “When x happens, I’ll attain happiness” don’t make sense, but ones like “While x is happening, I’ll be happy” make somewhat more.
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OneMoreLevel.com – Quest for the Crown
King Cotton March. So apparently John Philip Sousa’s ♫ King Cotton March premiered in Atlanta. It was written for the the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition, one of a few, which took place where the lovely Piedmont Park now lies. Awesome. (via)
What’s your greatest personal sports triumph?
You can read my own story, from the most dramatic round of foursquare of the previous decade, in the comments section.
Here is a more in-depth video about Pat Metheny’s Orchestrion Tour. In it, you can see more of the variety of instruments LEMUR has constructed for Metheny, and you can see the awesome processing that allows him to play a xylophone with his guitar, live. (Yeah, whoa.)
It’s all really interesting stuff, and exciting for me personally to see this potential resurgence of explicitly “mechanical” music.
I have a love/hate relationship with Pat Metheny’s music but I find this fascinating. So many possibilities!
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The Beatles: Authorship and Collaboration from Michael Deal’s exploration of Beatles music through infographics. Looking forward to what comes out of the Charting the Beatles project. (via the ever-reliable Wehr in the World)
Blue Velvet
Blue Velvet. Really disappointed with this one. I love the way that David Lynch framed his shots, used color, and put together some incredibly intense scenes. But, wow, he surrounded them with 1.5 hours of slight, incredibly tedious storyline.
THE WILD KINGDOM by Kevin Huizenga
holyshnikes: a new Kevin H book! This spring!
Yeeeeeeeesssssssssssss!
The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon. This movie is really, really good. Sydney Greenstreet is hilarious. Peter Lorre does the usual vaguely-creepy foreigner bit. Mary Astor is a tricky little devil. Bogart is Bogartian. None of the characters are entirely likeable, or hateable. Thumbs-up.
The Nanny Diaries
The Nanny Diaries. This is not a great movie. Scarlett Johansson is not a great actress. But Laura Linney is excellent, per usual.
Modern Love – In a Foreign Language, Are the Words ‘I Love You’ Just Sounds? – NYTimes.com
Movement of the hands of conductor Riccardo Chailly while conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No 4, first movement. Carnegie Hall, New York City, 10 February 2000. Morgan O’Hara has more Live Transmissions pieces here.
Study for Metastaseis, c. 1953. Iannis Xenakis Archives, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. One of the pieces in Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary, an exhibition at The Drawing Center. (via)
Sin Nombre
Sin Nombre. There’s a sincerity of tone here (that still steers clear of schmaltz) and the tension finds no release until the very last seconds. Recommended. Very much so.
Why I stopped being a sports fan – John Swansburg – Slate Magazine
“At the most basic level, I stopped following sports because being a sports fan took too much time.” That’s pretty much my main reason for half-hearted fandom. (via)
Why I stopped being a sports fan – John Swansburg – Slate Magazine
Craig Schuftan: Hey! Nietzsche! Leave Them Kids Alone
“Who knew Lord Byron had something in common with My Chemical Romance? Armed with an encyclopaedic knowledge of pop culture, Craig Schuftan traces the history of romanticism in rock and roll, drawing comparisons between 19th century poetic giants and the heroes of indie, glam and emo music. In this talk with Zan Rowe, Schuftan explores the links between music, philosophy and literature and why nobody wants to own up to being emo.”
A cool song made entirely of sounds from Terminator 2.
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Gjon Mili: Francoise Gilot, mistress of artist Pablo Picasso, with their young son Claude & holding drawings of the boy by Picasso (Vallauris, France / 1949)
from LIFE archives
Not just a composer: Drawing from Felix Mendelssohn’s travels to Italy, the cliffs at Amalfi.
Mark Larson 