Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you that music has boundaries. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

I found the second sentence of this quote (dated 9/9/'49) and used it as a .sig quote for a while, then years later noticed it was my dad's birthday. But I hadn't seen the longer quote before.

You know, the odd thing about being old is that you see something–something especially good or rotten or funny, and you think, 'Oh I must show this to so-and-so, it's just his sort of thing.' And what's odd is–there are so many gaps in the circle now–that so-and-so is gone.

    Clear blue bay at sunset
And I am stoned and placid--
    Free of grief. almost.

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Article II. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

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Anthony Burgess once argued that English English, American English and all the other varieties of Anglophonics have become rational and pragmatic (closure-oriented), but Irish English remains ludic and esthetic (open-oriented). The rest of us speak dry prose; the Irish speak playful poetry.

While I see some truth in that formulation, I would prefer to describe all-other-English as belonging to what Neurolinguistic therapist Dr. Richard Bandler calls the meta-model (statements we can logically judge as true or false), and Irish English as belonging to the Milton-model (statements not containable in true-false logic but capable of seducing us into sudden new perceptions).

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Whosoever speaks in any tongue gives birth to blessings and curses, & if the uncanny Egyptians made Thoth the father of both language and magick, the canny Greeks made Hermes the god of both language and fraud.

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I don't think anybody ever really matures. Adults are just children who owe money.

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The universe may be not only stranger than we think, but stranger than we can think.

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There was a young lady from Sidney
Who liked it right up to her kidney
A man from Quebec
Shoved it up to her neck
He had a big one, didn't he?

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Nothing is known. Everything is imagined.

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if youth only knew, if age only could

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Wilson's 22nd Law: "Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia."

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The universe contains a maybe.

Usual "new to me music playlist" with an emphasis on where I ran into. I ran into a bunch of stuff in SF but saved it more for this month.

4 star:
* Dancing In the Moonlight (Toploader)
love the percussion in this version from Lynette's playlist
* Make Her Say (Kid Cudi)
* The Magic Number (De La Soul)
from the movie Spider-Man No Way Home

3 star:
* Five Years (David Bowie)
Crazily ironically Meta used this song that is supposed to be a Feel Good ad about AI, even though it's about the end of the world happening in 5 years...
* I Think We're Alone Now (Annie DiRusso)
I'm surprised there aren't many spartan versions of this song, like something closer to what a teen might sing on their own, they're all so glossy.
* I Can (Nas)
A google pixel ad use this hip hop song w/ a bit of fur elise.
* You Really Got Me (Van Halen)
One of Lynette's nephews was at a band camp and they explicitly covered the Van Halen cover.
* Better Man (Little Big Town)
from Lynette's newphew's playlist

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RIP Gloria Steinem

Hard to hear reason over the trumpets of angels

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Three missiles that struck the southern city of Lamerd on Feb. 28 killed civilians as far as 50 meters (164 feet) from where they detonated, and caused damage more than three times farther away, Airwars found. The missiles detonated above a sports complex and two residential neighborhoods, Airwars found. The blasts killed at least 21 civilians, including seven children, according to Iranian officials

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Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man that got to be common.

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