tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post2384009602777150986..comments2024-03-28T14:53:38.827-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: Wrapped Up in Yourself Like a Spool, Trawling Your Dark as Owls DoUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-23084051683328941482013-10-29T13:33:33.987-04:002013-10-29T13:33:33.987-04:00http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/1...http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/10/the-big-new-yorker-book-of-cats.html<br /><br />asserts today oct 29 2013 is national cat daymistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-71743734772288011052013-10-29T07:29:51.174-04:002013-10-29T07:29:51.174-04:00*Faith*, good musical *faith*, not fate. Damn my f...*Faith*, good musical *faith*, not fate. Damn my free blogging platform's inability to allow edits to comments.BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-31424791865782214412013-10-28T20:58:31.362-04:002013-10-28T20:58:31.362-04:00My goal, I've doubts I can approach it much le...My goal, I've doubts I can approach it much less achieve it, is to only post when I want not because I think I want to. In any case, been spending more time with pens and tablets trying to figure out something about this, and that's progress of some sort.BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-37099123329080688562013-10-28T20:55:38.204-04:002013-10-28T20:55:38.204-04:00It was never love, it was never hate, just never w...It was never love, it was never hate, just never worked for me. Looking back at VU I wonder how much of i's aging bad for me (or me aging bad for it) was a combination of hearing it way too much and buying into the hype of it more than the music actually worked for me - when I was young they were the band to revere in many of the parties I lived. And I never liked his voice - I'm shallow that way. I understand that Reed meant a lot to people of good musical fate but I just don't like his music enough to speak to its merits. BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-12351029859443540642013-10-28T17:57:20.866-04:002013-10-28T17:57:20.866-04:00re krugman's errors re obamacare - an excellen...re krugman's errors re obamacare - an excellent example of how "stuff happens" is almost always a <i>vague as fog </i>smokescreen for "people did stuff" - which people? which stuff? cui bono? the debbil am in them details<br /><br />most of the people with whom i listened to the velvet underground are now dead <br /><br />if there's a rock n roll heaven they got a hell of a band<br /><br />i'm glad you didn't post on sunday <br /><br />here are the last two paragraphs from <b>Erich Fromm's <i>The Heart of Man:</i></b><br /><br />Man's heart can harden; it can become inhuman, yet never nonhuman. It always remains man's heart. We are all determined by the fact that we have been born human, and hence by the never-ending task of having to make choices. We must choose the means together with the aims. We must not rely on anyone's saving us, but be very aware of the fact that wrong choices make us incapable of saving ourselves.<br /><br />Indeed, we must become aware in order to choose the good -- but no awareness will help us if we have lost the capacity to be moved by the distress of another human being, by the friendly gaze of another person, by the song of a bird, by the greenness of grass. If man becomes indifferent to life there is no longer any hope that he can choose the good. Then, indeed, his heart will have so hardened that his "life" will be ended. If this should happen to the entire human race or to its most powerful members, the the life of mankind may be extinguished at the very moment of its greatest promise.<br /><br /><br /><br />mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-51187405787277789552013-10-28T15:58:39.054-04:002013-10-28T15:58:39.054-04:00"RIP Lou Reed, but I'm not the person to ..."RIP Lou Reed, but I'm not the person to eulogize Lou Reed."<br /><br />I'm shocked. I find a lot of his work uninspiring, but wowsy wow wow. What do I know, though, I think it was downhill after Transformer -- which I still adore -- which marks me as an interloper from Planet Bowie, not a true fan.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-22919158074271134162013-10-28T15:14:00.126-04:002013-10-28T15:14:00.126-04:00Ankles fine. Been hiking with Earthgirl instead of...Ankles fine. Been hiking with Earthgirl instead of discing.<br /><br />I know VU means a lot to you. Glad you posted some not often heard songs.BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-62905684345718878222013-10-28T10:58:59.219-04:002013-10-28T10:58:59.219-04:00Nancarrow is new to me. Must force self to listen ...Nancarrow is new to me. Must force self to listen to something new.<br /><br />Thanks for the link!<br /><br />How's the ankle? Able yet to do an entire disc golf course?Jim H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02088100982761595050noreply@blogger.com