What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.
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1984/Big Brother: Bowie
The zeitgeist.
Oakeshott on the Character of Religion Experience: Need there be a Conflict Between Science and Religion?
Professor Longhair: Bach Of Rock
Allen Toussaint dubbed the late Professor Longhair the “Bach of Rock.” In an illuminating 2013 interview with Sound Opinions about Fess’ influence on his music — and New Orleans music — Toussaint said, “I say he is our Bach of Rock in New Orleans because he had inventions,” and demonstrated how Fess’ piano licks were built and adaptable.
“That Fess didn’t live to see his inventions fully revered and canonized still feels cruel,” Amanda Petrusich wrote for The New Yorker in 2018.
The nickname “The Bach of Rock,” lends itself to a new 36-track compilation of Professor Longhair music, out May 8 through Sunset Blvd. Records.
“The Bach of Rock” doesn’t necessarily contain any surprises. New Orleanians and fans of New Orleans rhythm & blues will at least be familiar with these songs. But in the way the material is presented — a pounding, fiery live rendition of “Big Chief,” variations on “Doin’ It” and “Junco Partner,” and early versions of “Bald Head” and “Boyd’s Bounce” — listeners can better appreciate the creativity that made Fess such a revered performer.
—JAKE CLAPP
Zeno’s Conscience: quotes (6)
As a true paterfamilias, my father knew how to defend his peace and quiet. He possessed this peace and quiet both in his house and in his soul. The only books he read were bland and moral, not out of hypocrisy on his part, but from the most genuine conviction: I think he felt deeply the truth of those moralizing sermons, and his conscience was appeased by his sincere support of virtue. Now that I am growing old and turning into a kind of patriarch, I also feel that a preached immorality is more to be punished that an immoral action. You arrive at murder through love or through hate; you propagandize murder only through wickedness.
EPISTEME: Volume 17 – Issue 2 – June 2020
The Moviegoer: quotes (7)
She refers to a phenomenon of moviegoing which I have called certification. Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere.
A Confederacy of Dunces: quotes (6)
“Canned food is a perversion,” Ignatius said. “I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.”
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Marguerite Yourcenar
Born on June 8th. Becoming the Emperor: How Marguerite Yourcenar reinvented the past.
Then she came upon the drafts of a novel about Hadrian that she had begun when she was twenty-one and had later put aside. …. She was forty-five when she went back to Hadrian.
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