Don – Zoopraxiscope

Tune of the day #257

I wanted to post something from Switched-On Bach, but W. Carlos doesn’t want it on YouTube. We’ll have to make do with this homage. The third movement is here; it begins with the two chords that constitute the second movement.

Tune of the day #256

I drank enough beer for a lifetime in college, mostly plain, not fancy.

Tune of the day #255

From Koenji Hyakkei, the slightly more accessible of Tatsuya Yoshida’s Zeuhl ensembles.

Tune of the day #254

“Something in the Air” was their big hit, but this was more fun.

Heavenly thoughts

James:

Can you work out a seating arrangement for a banquet in Heaven?

If we weren’t limited to 4 dimensions… How about a “Hilbert table” with as many dimensions as guests, everybody sitting next to Jesus and kitty-corner with every other guest?

Texan JMSmith:

I do rather hope that each of the many mansions of which Christ spoke is surrounded by parklands so broad that eternity will not suffice to ramble to their ends.

Tune of the day #253

How’s your Icelandic?

Tune of the day #252

Feel like a howl-along?

Tune of the day #251

More crazy Finns. These play surf music.

Tune of the day #250

A live recording of a tune Satriani wrote back when he had hair.

Tune of the day #249

Like Leo Kottke, Peter Lang was discovered by John Fahey over fifty years ago.

Tune of the day #248

… and now — Mozart?

Today’s quote

Spike Jones, Jr.:

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 #247

The Bothy Band returns.

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.