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Robert Jordan, Kurt Vonnegut, and Madeleine L'Engle are dead. Friends I know have mourned Vonnegut. But I cant think of anyone at grissom who noticed the passing of those three within the past year. I am judgmental, but its weird watching kids strut up and down in AP literature classes who could count the number of books they have read this year on ( Read more... )

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Im a modern man, a man for the millennium. Digital and smoke free. A diversified multicultural, post-modern deconstruction that is anatomically and ecologically incorrect. Ive been up linked and downloaded, Ive been inputted and outsourced, I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading. Im a high tech low-life. A cutting edge, ( Read more... )

The new house is wonderful. My ever growing body was getting cramped in the old one, although i never seemed to care, i notice now how stress relieving more space is. I even have to hop some to touch the ceiling in some places! I have nothing new to mention beyond this summary of the past few months: grindhouse, capote, scaramouche, god of war2, ( Read more... )

I wrote "Black and Tan Fantasy" in a taxi coming down through Central Park on my way to a recording studio. I wrote "Mood Indigo" in 15 minutes. I wrote "Solitude" in 20 minutes in Chicago, standing up agaist a glass enclosure, waiting for another band to finish recording. But when I wrote "Sophisticated Lady" it took me thirty days, because I ( Read more... )

percy grainger. one of my favourite composers. which is about as unusual as saying i like to eat lots of ice cream- everybody likes to eat lots of ice cream. except me. He is one of the most successful composers for the concert band, he was the saxophones holst. He was also, incidentally, an enthusiastic sado masochist and happily believed in the ( Read more... )

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