whoa

Steve Roach's "Now / Traveler" RULES.

why didn't anyone tell me before?
come on, you guys.
you're supposed to have my back over here...
this bitch-assing record has been out for thirteen years!

what else are you hedgy bastards keeping to yourselves?

Fripp's diary

in which there's always something to make you go hm.

When considering an undertaking…

look at your motivation, clearly & dispassionately & impartially, as if towards your closest friend or brother. why does he want this? what necessity does it hold for him?

if this is necessary for him, it will be possible. if this is to get him something he wants for himself, it will be very hard.

II

We rarely allow ourselves the time to digest our experience. Sometimes illness gives us an enforced opportunity.

III

A pal e-mailed me in response to an article in The New York Times > Week in Review > Here to Stay: Balding Rockers and Big Mo: "Where the real money is made in music." My pal comments to me it begs the Q: Where are the Lennons, Hendrix, Mozarts of today? Present and unheard/unrecognized? Or perhaps, at a more base level, something in the world has shifted, such that we don't have the Newtons, DaVincis, or Einsteins, etc. either.

and now for something obviously completely unrelated
the Existential Primer
for those of us who haven't ever studied philosophy. you gotta start somewhere and sometime.
or nowhere and no time, if you prefer.