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The human capacity to ignore inconvenient facts and avoid unpleasantness is immense. Success in any endeavour requires coming to terms with the true nature of the task at hand and, if the goal is worth the effort, getting on with it. -
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Attend yourselves to what you know has to be done, and everything else will fall into place. -
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"Imitate. Assimilate. Innovate."
So for music it's transcribing the "licks", then incorporating them into your own playing, and finally, innovating upon them to express your own vision. That's why jazz is considered an art that is passed down, often through mentor/apprenticeship. -
Lessons in Life: How to Forfive
Thanks but the compliment should really go to the doctor who was my supervisor during my family medicine residency. He taught me that whenever someone comes in with something stupid or reacts in a way that is out of proportion to the circumstances - look into why they are reacting this way. More often than not there is a reason for their behaviour -
The State of British Politics Today
"Now when David Cameron became leader of the Conservative Party, he decided it was very important for him to try to seem nice.
"How shall I do this," he thought. "Abolish tuition fees? Increase the welfare budget? Keep the libraries open?"
But those things wouldn't just be seeming nice, he realised. They'd involve actually being nice ( Read more... ) -
In Cold Blood : CAPOTE
Richard Eugene Hickock (33) & Perry Edward Smith (36)
"Nanny Goat's Nightmare" Joke
Otto's sketchbook - 'reproduced a number of the tattoos ornamenting the subject's over muscled chest, arms and small and calloused but girlish hands."
SU DIA TERMINA A LAS 2 P.M.
It is no shame to have a dirty face - the shame comes when you keep it dirty ( Read more... ) -
The Jury Must Die: O'Connell
It is said: the observer influences the outcome of the thing observed.
Scheuermann's kyphosis
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GODS & BEASTS; DENISE MINA
Hunter's hood- continous hole. an oval, tailores of fitted felt round chin and mouth, stop prey smelling predator's breath ( Read more... ) -
Psychopathies & Other Disorders/ The Psychopath Test: Jon Ronson
IAN SPURLING- Costume Designer Freddie Mercury, Schizophrenia
MARY BARNES- Chronic Schizophrenia, 'shit room', artist 60-70s
20pt Hare PCL-R Checklist
ITEM 1: Glibness/ Superficial Charm
ITEM 2: Grandiose sense of self-worth
ITEM 3: Need for stimulation/ proneness to boredom
ITEM 4: Pathological Lying - An individual for whom lying is a ( Read more... ) -
Man with a Blue Scarf - M. GAYFORD
Pastels- see Degas, Manet, Chardin. Freud's Lord Goodman (86-86), Cerith (89)- Silverpoint
- "Etching is a differnet visual language from painting. Some artists who specialised in it, such as Jacques Callot int eh early 17th C., and Pranesi in the 18th, scarely painted at all. A few great figures, Rembrant above all, excelled at both. This is no ( Read more... )