Trivia that matter
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.
How’s your Icelandic?
Feel like a howl-along?
More crazy Finns. These play surf music.
A live recording of a tune Satriani wrote back when he had hair.
Like Leo Kottke, Peter Lang was discovered by John Fahey over fifty years ago.
… and now — Mozart?
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.
The Bothy Band returns.
The opening to Satoshi Kon’s Paprika, featuring Susumu Hirasawa’s “Mediational Field.” You can hear the full-length version of the tune here.
… 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.
So that no one will ever think of me as “cool.”
David Lindley, without Kaleidoscope.
Kaleidoscope from a reunion album, without David Lindley, as wacko as ever.
More favorite Schubert.
Their big hit was “Mexican Radio,” but this is what I remember them for.
The definitive Catholic psychedelic synth folk tune.
How is your bird’s lumbago?
… 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.
