May we blossom in tangent
swirling in the mists of our connections,
on pace.
straining to hear the impending whistle of the frontier train
Suburban revolutionary
A platform for ideas, undiluted feelings, lyricism, and hopefully truth. Writer, poet, activist in the borderlands of Arizona.
Saturday afternoon
Listening to Stravinsky and reading Camus. Disintegration within the construct. #feelin angsty
This is my favorite track from the recently released movie The Master. It’s title is Back Beyond by Jonny Greenwood. Greenwood is a member of Radiohead, and his solo work is sorely neglected. This needs to change.
(Source: youtube.com)
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2 The American language is less flexible and refined than the English, but it has more life in it, perhaps.
George Orwell in his 1935 review of Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer
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Whither Moral Courage?
By Salman Rushdie
We have become suspicious of those who take a stand against the abuses of power or dogma.
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
Immanuel Kant
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“Through whirling clouds, waltzing couples may be faintly distinguished. The clouds gradually scatter: one sees at letter A an immense hall peopled with a whirling crowd. The scene is gradually illuminated. The light of the chandeliers bursts forth at the fortissimo letter B. Set in an imperial court, about 1855.”
This is one of my favorite pieces by Ravel. “La Valse” was written in 1920 as a choreographic poem. Many have interpreted it as a commentary on the fate of Europe after the First World War, yet Ravel strenuously denied this.
Ravel had this to say:
“While some discover an attempt at parody, indeed caricature, others categorically see a tragic allusion in it - the end of the Second Empire, the situation in Vienna after the war, etc…. This dance may seem tragic, like any other emotion… pushed to the extreme. But one should only see in it what the music expresses: an ascending progression of sonority, to which the stage comes along to add light and movement.”
The composer George Benjamin said this of La Valse:
“Whether or not it was intended as a metaphor for the predicament of European civilization in the aftermath of the Great War, its one-movement design plots the birth, decay and destruction of a musical genre: the waltz”
And indeed he has a point. In this one movement we see the waltz come to a screeching halt and more symbolically something in Europe dying.
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1 “Back to the Middle” by Deerhunter. This track is off their album Monomania to be released May 7th. An irresistible guitar riff reminiscent of Television dominates the track and it allows us to glimpse the power of a rock n roll capable of immense innovation.
(Source: Spotify)
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