By Dibson on 2010 March 5
A Jean Baudrillard quotation, from Fragments: Cool Memories III
If everything can seem indifferent when you have encountered the most beatiful of things, why don’t we regard the opposite situation as equally fateful: having read the worst book, having seen the dullest landscape, having met the stupidest, ugliest woman? There should be a perfection of [...]
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By Dibson on 2010 February 3
Thinking of John Cage quotation:
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
I particularly like that he uses powers of two to solve the dilemma.
Start of day, in the bathroom window:
On-way to mid-day (keep [...]
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By Dibson on 2010 January 28
Quotations from an interview with Peter Carrol. I like this:
This universe does not appear to be the work of a humanoid sentient deity to me, unless it has a very perverse sense of humour.
And another, which I find a little scary…
I have often found it a good exercise to try and enter the paradigms [...]
Posted in Quotations | Tagged cosmology, petercarrol
By Dibson on 2009 December 22
About two weeks ago a bunch of the bookclubbers descended upon the ASCAP offices and recorded a podcast. We each played a song, and there’s a little interview happening.
You can check out the ASCAP Podcasts but it’ll probably fall off when the new podcast comes up. So you can:
Download the podcast
Discover what the [...]
Posted in Quotations, Recordings | Tagged ascap, bushwickbookclub, podcast
By Dibson on 2009 December 9
Old Hat performed at Northeast Kingdom last Friday. Kevin Armento from BushwickBK.com was there and he thought something about us. He thought so much that he wrote about us and put our picture on the website in an article called Folk and Frenzy at the Den. Below is the photo and excerpt [...]
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By Dibson on 2009 December 5
I don’t know what The Rumpus is. But The Rumpus mentions Old Hat’s show which is happening tonight.
Old Hat and Kung Fu Crime Wave at The Debutante Hour’s Telethon Bash. The accordion/drum/cello power trio, presents a variety show with folk-rock group The WOWZ, Phoebe Kreutz and new cult phenomenon Old Hat. And magic too! [...]
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By Dibson on 2009 December 1
You should probably come see Old Hat Saturday and Friday. Old Hat got mentioned in the New Yorker, check it out:
Variety Show Telethon Bash
The Debutante Hour, a lively female vocal trio whose members play the accordion, the cello, and the drums, needs money to record a new album, so they’re putting on a show, [...]
Posted in Quotations | Tagged oldhat, thenewyorker
By Dibson on 2009 November 27
Knowing that all truths are meerly metaphors is perhaps the greatest advantage you can have at this point in history. Thinking that you know the “Whole Truth” keeps you from learning anything more; hence you stagnate; hence you die. But knowing that every thruth is merely a metaphor, merely a tool, leaves you [...]
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By Dibson on 2009 November 26
There’s a nice Bushwick Book Club mention in the New Yorker. It’s coming up Tuesday December 1st at Goodbye Blue Monday.
Here’s what the New Yorker said:
Books inspire many things: movies, plays, religions, and even political platforms. Less frequently, they inspire songs (Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights,” Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit”). For the past year, the [...]
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By Dibson on 2009 October 1
“Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,” the Mock Turtle replied; “and then the different branches of Arithmetic—Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.”
The Mock Turtle, from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Did you know that all of Lewis Carroll’s works are in the public domain?
Dan showed me this video a few weeks ago. It’s [...]
Posted in Quotations | Tagged aliceinwonderland, lewiscarroll, ringostarr, themockturtle, video