If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
- John Cage
Archive for June, 2005
Listening to everything
Saturday, June 11th, 2005What’s on your sash?
Saturday, June 4th, 2005Forget the militia, we’ve got a well armed, angst-ridden, trained teenage fighting force.
From Harper’s Index for May 2005:
Number of merit badges in Safety awarded to Boy Scouts since 2001 : 15,417
Number in Shotgun Shooting : 65,249
Leather Pants and Moustaches Galore
Friday, June 3rd, 2005Living in the liberal center of the country for three years, which is actually as far left on the map as you can get without falling into the ocean, I saw my fair share of cultural tolerances. These mismashes of lifestyles and choices and whatever other words are “coined” to describe human nature were always interesting and I believe are a part of the great dichotomy of ideas in the Bay Area.
Austin has a similar environment on a much smaller scale, but I still had to laugh at the stereotypical opposition of this weekend’s major events:
The ROT Harley Davidson Rally (some 40,000 motorcycles)
and
The annual Texas Gay Pride Parade
Someone in the scheduling office has a sense of humor.