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Mantra percussion and Zs play Music at First

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:40:05 -0400

Mantra percussion and Zs play Music at First

oupacademic: “[Pound] was impressed and, boldly crossing out...

Wed, 08 May 2013 14:38:17 -0400

“[Pound] was impressed and, boldly crossing out ‘Hilda Doolittle’, he ascribed her poems to ‘H. D.’, the name by which she would thereafter be known in print. Enthusiastically sending the work of H. D. and Aldington off to Poetry magazine in Chicago, Pound would claim the poems as examples of ‘imagism’, the innovative and spare free verse which heralded literary modernism.”

Read the full Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry on the life of H.D., Hilda Doolittle, made free until June in conjunction with Poetry By Heart.

Image credit: H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] by Man Ray. Image courtesy of the New York Public Library.

They Don't Work For You

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:29:48 -0400

They Don't Work For You:

These senators voted against protecting the children they work for. Ask them why.

themelodybook: Teaching 101 The Melody Book

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 17:24:35 -0400

themelodybook:

Teaching 101

The Melody Book

themelodybook: The Melody Book

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:46:47 -0400

themelodybook:

The Melody Book

What I’m listening to: NINA @Nina_SoundView Post

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:19:39 -0400

What I’m listening to: NINA @Nina_Sound

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My approach exactly

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:27:50 -0400

My approach exactly

"Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice."

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:09:29 -0400

“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.”

- Nelson Mandela (1918– ), South African statesman (via oupacademic)

themelodybook: shivainlondon: “One child is holding something...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:14:17 -0400

themelodybook:

shivainlondon:

“One child is holding something that’s been banned in America to protect them. Guess which one?”

Such a sad statement of American society

The Melody Book

This is how I feel on the inside

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:08:49 -0400

This is how I feel on the inside

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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:55:04 -0400

cmcgo: SPREAD THEIR SHAME! Ayotte (R-NH) Barrasso (R-WY) Baucus...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:49:03 -0400

cmcgo:

SPREAD THEIR SHAME!

Ayotte (R-NH)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Baucus (D-MT)
Begich (D-AK)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coats (R-IN)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Enzi (R-WY)
Fischer (R-NE)
Flake (R-AZ)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Heitkamp (D-ND)
Heller (R-NV)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (R-WI)
Lee (R-UT)
McConnell (R-KY)
Moran (R-KS)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Paul (R-KY)
Portman (R-OH)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reid (D-NV) {changed vote from yes to no for procedural reasons only so he can file motion to reconsider}
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rubio (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)

"Let me tell you a story. The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program...."

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:49:18 -0400

“

Let me tell you a story. The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program. The reporter had been assigned a theory and was seeking soundbites to support it. “Wouldn’t you say,” she asked, ‘that killings like this are influenced by violent movies?” No, I said, I wouldn’t say that. “But what about ‘The Basketball Diaries’?” she asked. “Doesn’t that have a scene of a boy walking into a school with a machinegun?”

The obscure 1995 Leonardo DiCaprio movie did indeed have a brief fantasy scene of that nature, I said, but the movie failed at the box office and it’s unlikely the Columbine killers saw it.

The reporter looked disappointed, so I offered her my theory. “Events like this,” I said, “if they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is assigned a logo and a theme song; these two kids were packaged as the Trench Coat Mafia. The message is clear to other disturbed kids: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous. The TV will talk about nothing else but me. Experts will try to figure out what I was thinking. Kids and teachers at school will see they shouldn’t have messed with me. I’ll go out in a blaze of glory.”

In short, I said, events like Columbine are influenced far less by violent movies than by CNN, “The NBC Nightly News” and other news media, who glorify the killers in the guise of “explaining” them.

The reporter thanked me and turned off the camera. Of course the interview was never used. They found plenty of talking heads to condemn violent movies, and everybody was happy.

”

- Roger Ebert (via confusedtree)

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Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:21:49 -0400

I can die happy now

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:12:04 -0400

I can die happy now

Music Theory Augmented: [Fan Submission] How to Write New Musicology

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:10:06 -0400

Music Theory Augmented: [Fan Submission] How to Write New Musicology:

musictheoryaugmented:

First write a basic, positivistic statement. For instance:

The keys are on the table.

Then apply new-musicological thinking, as follows:

The keys, these openers of multiple possibilities, embedding in their material form the cultural formation of spaces and intercommunication, maintain a…

Quiet City presents NYC composersI always applaud music...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:06:12 -0400

Quiet City presents NYC composers

I always applaud music organizations that program concerts full of fresh pieces by young composers.…

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laoih: (x) #bless

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:46:23 -0400

laoih:

(x)

#bless

A 24-year-old feels old (watching The Simpsons)

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 00:05:07 -0400

paulkilbey:

I’m two days off my 25th birthday. It’s a sobering thought that Lisa Simpson almost got married nearly three years ago, on 1 August 2010. I’ve just watched the classic Simpsons episode “Lisa’s Wedding” on Channel 4 (+1, technically) and have definitely never felt older.

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This is really touching/pithy. Also, I was 16 in 1995, and the first time I saw the Simpsons was on the Tracy Ullman Show several years before that. Talk about feeling old.

What I’m listening to: The Glitch MobThe Glitch Mob first...

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 15:10:55 -0400

What I’m listening to: The Glitch Mob

The Glitch Mob first popped up in my [redacted] online playlist a few months ago and their music…

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