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Some thoughts develop quickly into a sudden story
a beautiful lettuce head awaits an avocado awaits imagined raw white asparagus with olive oil thought of colors: purple, green, white imagined the view on a plate where the colors and shapes are clearly denoted by sections though I extremely seldom make sauces and dressings, I dressing seemed needed, wanted blue cheese, olive oil, scallions,…
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Claudio Monteverdi *V 15 1567 / The Life You Give
Claudio Monteverdi, baptized May 15, 1567, Cremona, Duchy of Milan [Italy], is the composer in the late Renaissance, seen as most important developer of the then new genre, the opera. He also did much to bring a “modern” secular spirit into church music. Monteverdi, the son of a barber-surgeon and chemist, studied with the director…
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The Life You Give: Brian Eno *1948
Brian Eno, born Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, May 15, 1948, in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, is producer, composer, keyboardist, and singer who helped define and reinvent the sound of some of the most popular bands of the 1980s and ’90s and who created the genre of ambient music. While…
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Stevie Wonder *V 13 1950 / The Life You Give
Stevie Wonder, born Steveland Judkins or Steveland Morris, May 13, 1950, in Saginaw, Michigan, U.S.A., is the singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, a child prodigy who developed into one of the most creative musical figures of the late 20th century. Blind from birth and raised in inner-city Detroit, he was a skilled musician by age eight.…











