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Monthly Archives: August 2011
In Memory: Jim Merlino, April 30, 1947-August 10, 2011
On Monday, August 1st, I called my dad at lunchtime. There was no real reason for the call, except that I was about to go to Jamaica for a week’s vacation and wanted to chat with him before I left. … Continue reading
John Coltrane, “Lonnie’s Lament”
Just really feeling this right now. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8x-2-Zq3FQ&feature=related
“We have lost a great leader”
A scene from Kurosawa’s 1980 late-career epic Kagemusha, part of the weekend “hurricane” viewing. A beautiful film. This clip is representative, though perhaps my favorite in the movie was the stunning opening, which unfortunately has not been uploaded to YouTube. … Continue reading
Seneca on Gladiators
From Letter 7 in Letters from a Stoic: There is nothing so ruinous to good character as to idle away one’s time at some spectacle. Vices have a way of creeping in because of the feeling of pleasure that it … Continue reading
High Water
Sitting here waiting for the incoming hurricane, this seems appropriate. Have probably listened to this song more than any other over the last decade. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LcbWrWfnas
The Devil and Robert Johnson
I always considered the story that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in exchange for his prodigious guitar talents to be no more than brilliant marketing that gave his already dark music an extra whiff of Satanic danger. … Continue reading
