Lana started to plan the ensemble with the globe. the chalk, and the book. If the thing had commercial possibilities, is should be done with a certain finesse and quality. She had envisioned several arrangements that would combine grace and obscenity (p. 146). “Hey! I sure they a bird trade. White peoples always got parakeets…
This from the NME. Always good to hear that Frank is getting recognition from unlikely quarters on the grounds that he gets no real radio play and that he pissed off the ideologues of both political wings. P. Zappae is not the first time that Zappa has inspired the name of a new discover. The musician has provided inspiration…
Here is one of the more thoughtful, subtle and insightful takes on one of Percy’s masterpieces. existentialismphilosophical literaturethe last gentlemanWalker Percy
This summary from the very excellent The Splintered Mind. BrainCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessDaniel DennettDavid ChalmersEric Schwitzgebelphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindqualia
“Goofin off? Shit. Goofin off ain cleanin up this mother-fuckin cathouse. They somebody in here sweepin and moppin up all the shit your po, stupor customer drippin on the flo. I feel sorry for them po peoples comin in here thinkin they gonna have theirself some fun, probly gettin knockout drop in they drink, catchin…
A report on a paper recently published in Cortex. BrainCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencehallucinationmusicneurophenomenologyneuroscienceOliver Sacksphantom music
Michael Baruzzini‘s thoughts on Percy’s famous “ode” to Bourbon. (A companion piece is Luis Buñuel’s recipe for the perfect Martini mentioned in his autobiography and perhaps most famously in the film The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie — for another time). Not only should connoisseurs of bourbon not read this article, neither should persons preoccupied with the…
Here’s a film that I chanced upon (I haven’t seen it yet). Once upon a time there was a world full of meaning, focused by exemplary figures in the form of gods and heroes, saints and sinners. How did we lose them, or, might they still be around, in the form of modern day masters,…
The boy has done it! He has won the title to his own existence, as plenary an existence now as Holden’s, by refusing to be stampeded like the ladies from Hattiesburg. He is a citizen like Holden; two men of the world they are. All at once the world is open to him. Nobody threatens…
Evan on neurophenomenology (Evan is UBC’s big gain). brain scienceBuddhismCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessEvan ThompsonmrineurophenomenologyPhilosophy of mindqualiaTranscendental Meditation
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