Zoopraxiscope

Today’s quote

One of the things that people don’t realize about dad’s kind of music is, when you replace a C-sharp with a gunshot, it has to be a C-sharp gunshot or it sounds awful.

Tune of the day #246

The opening to Satoshi Kon’s Paprika, featuring Susumu Hirasawa’s “Mediational Field.” You can hear the full-length version of the tune here.

Today’s quote: Remarks on the Remarks on the Seventh Annual Report of ….

Joseph Moore:

… the one core belief of the Puritans, that which survived any number of changes to mere theological and moral beliefs, is that they, the enlightened and holy, should be in charge. Starting with the University they founded within a decade of establishing their first town, the Pilgrims asserted what to them was the obvious and certain truth: they had a bead on things, anyone who disagreed was stupid or evil. It was their right and duty to rule. The theology changed from Calvinism to Unitarianism to Marxism and beyond, but the core belief in their superior understanding survived all such superficial changes.

Tune of the day #245

So that no one will ever think of me as “cool.”

Tune of the day #243

Kaleidoscope from a reunion album, without David Lindley, as wacko as ever.

Tune of the day #241

Their big hit was “Mexican Radio,” but this is what I remember them for.

Tune of the day #240

The definitive Catholic psychedelic synth folk tune.

Tune of the day #238

… and now some high culture, with balloons. Tchaikovsky had it coming.

One of my long-term projects is to find out which penstemons will do well in Kansas. I’ve got around twenty species planted in various parts of the yard, many of which are coming into bloom now. The Kansas natives such as Penstemon cobaea, above, have done very well. In general, most species I’ve tried have been easy and haven’t needed attention beyond weeding and occasional watering during dry spells.