Let me just say that I am really really really missing Biola these days.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Monday, August 25, 2008
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Victory!
I just had a victorious moment (involving notaries and all the hoops the Spanish government holds for foreigners) and Puccini's aria "Nessun Dorma" came to mind with all of it's exclamations of "Vincero!" at the end. Immature moment but needed to be shared-here is Pavarotti's last performance of the piece at the last Olympics. How appropriate!
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
first.
Sydney mentioned to me tonight that she would like if we could begin some discussions on Nesbit. Me first!
"I am not considering Poetry as an Art or a Craft, as the rhythmic verbal expression of a spiritual necessity or urge, but solely as the means to a social end; that being the achievement of a status in society solid enough to warrant the poet discarding and expunging those affectations, so essential in the early stages, of speech, dress, and behaviour; an income large enough to satisfy his physical demands, unless he has already fallen victim to the Poet's Evil, or Great Wen; and a permanent security from the fear of having to write any more." (from How to be a Poet, Dylan Thomas)
Nesbit: 1. What are your thoughts on this passage? I tend, often, towards the "spiritual necessity or urge" when facing art and poetry. Thomas is addressing poetry as business, a means to a wealthy and plump end.
2. Would you rather have your tuba playing neighbor practice loudly every night at 2:30 am OR have your only artistic talent in life involve traditional sheep-dung ceramic firing?
"I am not considering Poetry as an Art or a Craft, as the rhythmic verbal expression of a spiritual necessity or urge, but solely as the means to a social end; that being the achievement of a status in society solid enough to warrant the poet discarding and expunging those affectations, so essential in the early stages, of speech, dress, and behaviour; an income large enough to satisfy his physical demands, unless he has already fallen victim to the Poet's Evil, or Great Wen; and a permanent security from the fear of having to write any more." (from How to be a Poet, Dylan Thomas)
Nesbit: 1. What are your thoughts on this passage? I tend, often, towards the "spiritual necessity or urge" when facing art and poetry. Thomas is addressing poetry as business, a means to a wealthy and plump end.
2. Would you rather have your tuba playing neighbor practice loudly every night at 2:30 am OR have your only artistic talent in life involve traditional sheep-dung ceramic firing?
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
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