Nick Cave: kicking against the pricks
The phrase “kicking against the pricks” takes on a whole new meaning . . . if you get my drift. Good on you Nick! gothicJew hatredmusicNick Cavephilosophical musicregressive leftwim wenderswings of desire
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George Avakian
Intimately drawn obituary by Ricky Riccardi. George AvakianJazzLouis ArmstrongmusicRicky Riccardi
Walker Percy Wednesday 160
An unvarying element in the situation is a pointing at by context. There must occur a preliminary meeting of minds and a mutually intended subject before anything can be said at all. The context may vary all the way from a literal pointing-by-finger and naming in the aboriginal naming act, to the pointing context of…
Dr. John @ 77
Born on this day — Mac Rebennack. boogie woogieDr. Johnmac Rebennackmusicnew orleanspianothe band
In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg hosts In Our Time: it’s reassuring that there are still some intelligent and sober mainstream radio programmes around. Though Bragg ain’t no Bryan Magee (few, if any, can match him) Bragg’s series could nonetheless be a useful supplement. Remember kiddies, even if you are formally enrolled on a university course, in essence the burden of getting…
Stax Country
Prima facie, I think this should make for an interesting listen despite the dissenting voice of Hal Horowitz. Another Horowitz (Steve) in Pop Matters and Joseph Ryle in The Recoup think otherwise. Reasonable disagreement amongst reasonable people . . . countrymusicStax
Can (and Should) Neuroscience Naturalize Buddhism?
A paper that caught my eye by Bernard Faure Bernard FaureBuddhismDalai LamaFrancisco VarelameditationMindfulnessnaturalismneuroscience
India meets NOLA
As a Brit living in North America if ever there were a cuisine that I have regular cravings for it is Indian, Indian long-since becoming the national cuisine, a most welcome antidote to the grimness of the then-British cuisine of the early ’70s. Inevitably, there is so much schlock out there or if one goes…
Theology + Geometry: A Gentleman’s Worldview 4
Classic from issue 16. So far as I’m concerned the most important item from The Chap Manifesto is number 8: “THOU SHALT NEVER WEAR PLIMSOLLS WHEN NOT DOING SPORT. Nor even when doing sport. Which you shouldn’t be doing anyway. Except cricket”. (In common parlance, those hideous and disposable artificial fibered walking billboards known as…
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Pinker’s forthcoming bestseller which I’m expecting Taleb to eventually rip into. Despite Pinker ostensibly being a classical liberal his implicit progressivist ebullience is suspect. Epistemic humility is not seen as a cultural virtue: it is the zeitgeist of the modern age that we exist in a (misperceived) linear trajectory of progress, progress here taken to be…
