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The Life You Give: Jimi Hendrix *Nov 27 1942
Though his active career as a featured artist lasted a mere four years, Hendrix altered the course of popular music and became one of the most successful and influential musicians of his era. An instrumentalist who radically redefined the expressive potential and sonic palette of the electric guitar, he was the composer of a classic…
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o·blige /əˈblīj/
An obligation has a source. It may be an internal power, it may be an external one. Ideally, having and feeling obliged ought to be from an internal standpoint, as the character wants standing purity in being self. That which I do wishes to coincide with what is expected of me by my peers and…
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The Life You Give: Helmut Lachenmann *1935
“Expression is created on the reverse face of that on which the composer is working…destruction, deflation, and disintegration. But during this process expressive energy radiates out in the first instance like a creative serenity — freedom even.” — Helmut Lachenmann Join us listening to his compositionsat 11pm EST, November 27, at The Aristipposian Poet, on…
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The one seeing bombastic brilliance when looking in the mirror
…is missing much brilliance.
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About my first cheese risotto
On a week in particular I went on a cheesy shopping spree. Now I realize that my eating ways since Indonesia have let this cheese array resting longer than I had imagined possible. To address the situation, what better than a cheese risotto? Today it was the usual Parmesan, plus these…
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The Life You Give: Tina Turner *1939
Tina Turner, original name Anna Mae Bullock, (born November 26, 1939, Brownsville, Tennessee, U.S.), American-born singer who found success in the rhythm-and-blues, soul, and rock genres in a career that spanned five decades. Turner was born into a sharecropping family in rural Tennessee. She began singing as a teenager and, after moving to St. Louis,…
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