www.myspace.com/joevanore ( Read more... )

I finished putting together a demo of How to Have a Good Time - the song I posted the lyrics to a few weeks ago.

It's here:

www.myspace.com/joevanore

FROM WORK:

• Frithjof Schoun's "Ethnische und Mystische Schönheit" (mostly his artwork, but a few essays in German)
• "Liebe" (a little book of Schuon's poetry, also in German)
• a starbucks gift card
• a mug

FROM FRIENDS

• several times the height of a person in fruit roll-ups (from Ian)

20. Wintersleep "Weighty Ghost"
19. The Dodos "Joe's Waltz" (anybody remember when these guys were the hippest thing around?  what happened?  one might ask the same question about vampire weekend...)
18. Ra Ra Riot "Run My Mouth"
17. Jeff Hanson "Night" (yes, his name is Jeff)
16. Lambchop "Slipped, Dissolved and Loosed"
15. The Hold Steady " ( Read more... )

Woke up in mid-afternoon ( Read more... )

This one's called "Too Late to Break the Silence."  It was written (if I remember correctly) in summer 2007, and was recorded over the course of the past several weeks in whatever spare minutes I could find in the midst of a far too busy schedule.  I play all the instruments on this recording.

www.myspace.com/joevanore

After remaining idle for somewhere in the neighborhood of two years, my myspace music page finally has music on it ( Read more... )

philosophy paper #3.... done.

I really think I've outdone myself on this one.

Onto more mundane things....

I need experimental subjects for a psych project.  The whole thing takes about 20 minutes.  I'd really appreciate anyone's help.

Basically, I'm comparing individuals' beliefs about their own social biases with the results of something called the implicit association test (IAT).  Other students have chosen to measure biases regarding race, gender, ( Read more... )

and the comment I saw the most was that I needed to defend my claim that moral standards can only exist in the mind.  The implication of this was that any objective standard must have a conscious entity to conceive it (I took this to be something like the Judeo-Christian God, but more on that later).

Anyway... the professor's counterexample was the ( Read more... )