May day 2011. Yesterday's news pale in comparison. Mugabe visits Rome for ( Read more... )

Do you think rhythm is something that can be completely individualized, like a personal style, and with even greater effect on one's Weltanschuung? Every musical piece has a particular mode of being-in-time. I wonder if really good musicians do not end up approaching, performing, and resolving, some non-musical situations as they would a ( Read more... )

I am not really here.Mostly here
Kinda here.
And a little bit here.

I will slowly now move this to a layer under, sifting, and updating out of time, as if to write at first and at last to re-read. Chronology is inconclusive.

I officially acknowledge that I no longer read literary theory.
I pledge to become a great accordion player.
I promise to attend choir practice weekly.
I will observe half hour intervals between each successive crush I develop.
I will stop making divisive comments.
I will translate Veniamin Kaverin.

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There is nothing redeeming about an oddity-in-itself. The odd is just an effect of vision. This is why I prefer Werner Herzog's ( Read more... )

никогда раньше не замечал что песни Наутилуса, во-всяком случае некоторые ранние песни, похожи на стихи, во-всяком cлучае некоторые стихи, куртуазных маньеристов.

aptsvet reports that Dmitry Prigov, one of the original Soviet conceptualist poets, died yesterday. RIP. His widow is trying to canvas the funds to repay the debt accrued from hospital bills, and for the monument for his grave.

I learned about Prigov's death from aptsvet  -( Read more... )

Raoul Servais is pretty interesting. His works remind me of 'The Glass Harmonica', a great Soviet animation film from the 60s. I thank homyndrik for alerting me to Servais' existence.