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Imprinting
I experience this phenomenon when I'm listening to classical music where my first exposure to a performance of a given piece seems to be the best one. It really leads me to question what exactly my taste in music amounts to. On the other hand, there are consistencies in what I find satisfying in the first performance that might be missing from ( Read more... ) -
Bro Thesis - Chapter One (so far)
Right, so the 19th century? Killer century. Like you guys have no idea. Unprecedented technological progress, the beginning of mass education in Europe, spare cash for more and more people, and access for those people to some culture beyond the local church. More people than ever were able to have a discussion on where the world was headed. ( Read more... ) -
Now summarizing Kant
Oh my god. Can I even do this? -
Well what do you know
I *do* like something Mozart wrote ( Read more... ) -
Maaaaan
I'm subscribed to a mailing list for an internet classical music retailer, so I get weekly updates on what's on sale. Today it was an 85-disc edition of the complete works of Beethoven for $129.00 ( Read more... ) -
Waking up
Today I woke up on my own at 9:00. That's the earliest I've woken up on my own for as long as I can remember, excluding times when I've been in hotels. For a really long time now, maybe a year, I've been mostly woken up early, and then had either to go through the day sleep-deprived, or to get back to sleep and end up sleeping in pretty late ( Read more... ) -
Oh one last thing
Dancing in heels actually rules. Now I just have to get a pair that has a bit more room in the toe, and I'll be set :) -
(Untitled)
So probably everyone has tried to imagine what it's like to wake up with amnesia. I think what I've thought about most has been to imagine what people close to me would look and feel like, concretely, if I had no sense of knowing who they are, while still knowing rationally that they are related to me. But try thinking not of what the world would ( Read more... ) -
Things I learned from Dr. Zhivago
1. Principles are for people who want to die alone with a broken heart
2. Dr. Zhivago is a good movie to watch when you have a migraine
