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Top songs of 1980

Stream a list like this or just…look at it. Take in the hit songs from the year when you were the age that your children are now to understand something deep and wordless about their inner lives. About music and the inner life in general. This is eleven years old for me: Top Songs of […]

New biological theory of nicknames

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Post date December 10, 2015
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Separate from and prior to all that Mircea Eliade stuff about sacred naming and names nobody’s allowed to say, I’ve conceived a new theory about the function, significance, and ubiquity of nicknames

“A genius is the one most like himself”: Thelonious Monk’s notes to self

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Post date November 25, 2015
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From Lists of Note, this amazing list of credos from Thelonious Monk: Transcript T.MONK’S ADVICE (1960) JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE NOT A DRUMMER, DOESN’T MEAN YOU DON’T HAVE TO KEEP TIME. PAT YOUR FOOT & SING THE MELODY IN YOUR HEAD, WHEN YOU PLAY. STOP PLAYING ALL THOSE WEIRD NOTES (THAT BULLSHIT), PLAY THE MELODY! MAKE […]