Category Archives: Quotations

The Ecstasy of Uselessness

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 … Continue reading

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Saturday 2010 Jan 30

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 … Continue reading

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Peter Carrol Quotations

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 … Continue reading

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Bushwick Bookclub in ASCAP Podcast

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 … Continue reading

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Old Hat on BushwickBK.com

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 … Continue reading

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Old Hat mentioned on “The Rumpus”

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 … Continue reading

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Old Hat Mention in The New Yorker

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, … Continue reading

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Aidan Kelly on Truth

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 … Continue reading

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Bushwick Book Club in The New Yorker

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, … Continue reading

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The Mock Turtle’s Regular Course

“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 … Continue reading

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