Andrew Ivers’ Perfect Timing
“Play La Marseillaise. Play it!”
Category: Music
“Words Words Words”
Indeed, the very use of the word “revolution” is suspect because every historical event that people want to invest with drama and importance is given the honorific title “revolution.” –Avishai Margalit, Views in Review: Politics…
Perduring Truth
It is, indeed, not necessary to shew by many instances what all mankind confess, by an incessant call for variety, and restless pursuit of enjoyments, which they value only because unpossessed. –Dr. Samuel Johnson, The…
“Some Nights, You Need a Shot of Dylan”
Knocking’ on Heaven’s Door
One of This Afternoon’s Gratitudes
A song from a film….
“Tomorrow Belongs to Me”
“Music can madden and it can help heal the broken mind. If it can be the ‘food of love,’ it can also trigger the feasts of hatred.” –George Steiner, Errata: An Examined Life, 81.
Song of the Night
Norm Finkelstein recommended this song, and now so do I! Now if you feel that you can’t go onBecause all of your hope is goneAnd your life is filled with much confusionUntil happiness is just…
Instead of Reciting a Gatha, Here I Am Listening to Dylan
Leave at your own chosen speed….
Dylan’s Tweets
Yesterday I had lunch and spent some time with Andrew Ivers, a gentleman and a scholar, at Courtesy Diner on Hampton. Of course, we eventually came around to Bob Dylan, after Andrew gave me a…
The Good News of Glenn Gould’s Goldberg Variations
The 1955 recording The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity. –Glenn Gould