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Nov 8, 2007 11:51am: one day i *will* stumble again. i promise. :o)
thanks for all the lovely messages and greetings.

peace.
i.

Music, Mind, and Meaning: Aug 12, 2006 1:31pm 24 reviews cognitive-science
http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/MusicMindMeaning.html; Music, Mind, and Meaning
Marvin Minsky
Computer Music Journal, Fall 1981

Why do we like music? Our culture immerses us in it for hours each day, and everyone knows how it touches our emotions, but few think of how music touches other kinds of thought. It is astonishing how little curiosity we have about so pervasive an "environmental" influence. What might we discover if we were to study musical thinking?

Have we the tools for such work? Years ago, when science still feared meaning, the new field of research called 'Artificial Intelligence' started to supply new ideas about "representation of knowledge" that I'll use here. Are such ideas too alien for anything so subjective and irrational, aesthetic, and emotional as music? Not at all. I think the problems are the same and those distinctions wrongly drawn: only the surface of reason is rational. I don't mean that understanding emotion is easy, only that understanding reason is probably harder. Our culture has a universal myth in which we see emotion as more complex and obscure than intellect. Indeed, emotion might be "deeper" in some sense of prior evolution, but this need not make it harder to understand; in fact, I think today we actually know much more about emotion than about reason....

via woods

Australia on Flickr - Photo Sharing!: Aug 12, 2006 1:27pm -1 review photography
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olgersdeman/138228323/in/set-72157594229076666/

Bob Gluck, Narrativity Issue 2: Aug 12, 2006 7:39am 2 reviews hedonism
http://www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/narrativity/issue_two/quotes_Bob.html; From The Madness of the Day
Maurice Blanchot
trans. Lydia Davis

I am not learned; I am not ignorant. I have known joys. That is saying too little: I am alive, and this life gives me the greatest pleasure. And what about death? When I die (perhaps any minute now), I will feel immense pleasure. I am not talking about the foretaste of death, which is stale and often disagreeable. Suffering dulls the senses. But this is the remarkable truth, and I am sure of it: I experience boundless pleasure in living, and I will take boundless satisfaction in dying.

I have wandered: I have gone from place to place. I have stayed in one place, lived in a single room. I have been poor, then richer, then poorer than many people. As a child I had great passions, and everything I wanted was given to me. My childhood has disappeared, my youth his behind me. It doesn't matter. I am happy about what has been. I am pleased by what is, and what is to come suits me well enough.

Is my life better than other peoples lives? Perhaps. I have a roof over my head and many do not. I do not have leprosy, I am not blind, I see the world--what extraordinary happiness! I see this day, and outside it there is nothing. Who could take that away from me? And when this day fades, I will fade along with it--a thought, a certainty, that enraptures me.

I have loved people. I have lost them. I went mad when that blow struck me, because it is hell. But there was no witness to my madness, my frenzy was not evident: only my innermost being was mad. Sometimes I became enraged. People would say to me, Why are you so calm? But I was scorched from head to foot; at night I would run through the streets and howl; during the day I would work calmly.

Aspen no. 10, item 8: The Idea In the Brush and the Brush In the Idea: Aug 12, 2006 7:33am 4 reviews painting
http://www.ubu.com/aspen/aspen10/brush.html; The Idea In the Brush and the Brush In the Idea
Ching Ying
Aspen no. 10

The pursuit of calligraphy is a lifetime undertaking and the majority of the famous calligraphers reached the height of their powers only at a venerable age -- and after a lifetime of unremitting commitment and obsessive practice. No matter how long they practiced, they never seemed satisfied with their work. The finishing of one piece was only the beginning of the next.

There are many stories describing calligraphers' addiction to their art -- Chang Chih who practiced outdoors left the water of a pool black with ink; Chung Yu after a ten-year withdrawal to the mountains left the trees and rocks covered with ink; Chih-Yung left five large baskets filled with worn-out brushes after 40 years of daily practice.

Soap on Flickr - Photo Sharing!: Aug 12, 2006 7:29am 2 reviews photography
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/45560773/

K-JACQUES SAINT-TROPEZ: Aug 11, 2006 2:51pm 1 review travel
http://www.lestropeziennes.com/; K. Jacques' St.-Tropez collection is the best: simple flats with a variety of leather details and classic styles from gladiator to thong. The only problem is I can't find them in Sao Tome and Principe. Why, oh why?