Japan trip pics!

"As the beginner knows nothing about either his body posture or the positioning of his sword, neither does his mind stop anywhere within him. If a man strikes at him with a sword, he simply meets the attack without anything in mind ( Read more... )

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it’ isn’t all new and undiscovered music in my little 110-square-foot hi-fi shrine.  In fact, most of the time I’m just endlessly cycling through a handful of recordings.  Especially whenever I change something about the layout of listening room (read: ( Read more... )

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Tiempo Libre / Bach In Havana

Last time I was at Barnes & Noble I was waylayed by a classical music sale in the music department, and as I approached the register I was constantly distracted by the piped-in music, which was obviously Bach, yet riding on top of ( Read more... )

Originally published at Hans Christian Andersen V's Blog. You can comment here or there.

I’m eating a cheeseburger, listening to Ashkenazy & the VPO storm their way through Beethoven’s “Emperor” Piano Concerto #5, and reading Musashi’s Book of Five Rings.  All three are excellent and stimulating, but so far only two of the three are actually ( Read more... )

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The feed may or may not actually give full-article content, it might instead just give a lame teaser.  If that’s the case, that’s lame, but will be ( Read more... )

Angyl bought me a present a while back - the domain hca5.com. She's got it all set up with an instance of WordPress, and I'm going to start doing most future public posts over there, particularly any future music-listening writeups. I'm working on getting WP->LJ cross-posting working, but there are a few entries over there already - including an ( Read more... )

It looks like I might be attending an out-of-state wedding the first week of June. Is there anyone in F-List land who could be bribed into taking care of an adorable (read: housetrained) puppah from June 5-7? (Edit: not May 5-7. Needing a puppysitter yesterday would represent a serious act of FAIL ( Read more... )

Hey folks ( Read more... )

They have sunlight here! Pale blue skies, cold wind, and sunlight! I'm a touch jealous ( Read more... )