Though his book has some amusing passages - I picked it off the rack once and read quite a bit of it, I don't think "Moses Avalon" says should be taken seriously at all. He writes under an assumed name and doesn't have the balls to name any names at all in his book. A complete coward. Don'...

He pre-dated Nietzsche in his insistence that there is no real, ontological difference between Good and Evil OK, but is it true? What 'good' is it then to look at Good and Evil from an ontological standpoint? I also like the fact that his day job was lens making. He helped people to see clearly. Or...

Without pronouncing a verdict on the man's life-work, I shall simply convey that Orgonon* is not crap, especially the architecture, furnishings, authentic WR bric-a-brac, amateur paintings, etc. The area around Rangeley is likewise fantastic. I've never been to northern Ontario, but I imagine that i...

#1 in my high school at parallel bar dips.
That was junior year. I was too cool to try the next year.

I always sort of resented Chavez because they used to be a stellar band called Wider, who I really liked a whole lot. I felt kinda betrayed. Why not tell us about how or why the Lo was used to better effect in Wider? Or was it Dave Reid's hard-ass mutterings that you prefer to Sweeney's thenthitive...

Hum: too many major seventh chords, never had the asymmetry of Chavez. The show was the James Lo and Tarver, who brought some real insight into the what hadn't yet been beaten completely into the ground venn intersection of which gets called 'rock'. Whatever Sweeney was doing on the guitar didn't cl...

Chris Cutler's book "File Under Popular" is fully of dreadfully tedious prose mannerisms, like the constant use of "&". The unmasticated, rote Marxism makes it all smell so mid-20th century. Yet his band sounds far less dated than their peers, and that includes the less crapu...

I find my taste gently developing and changing all the time. [snip] Listen, I'm no Buddhist, but I think that the notion that there are two states of consciousness about music, one "naive" and one "enlightened" is, and I'll put it politely, erm, misinformed . I'm not flaming bellulah or anyone who ...

a good intro to serial music might be schoenberg's piano concerto op. 42 conducted by boulez. it's a great piece and quite accessible. Definitskly. That's a cantabile theme for sure. Reminds me... don't ignore the probably even more accessible Berg Violin Concerto, which uses some serial techniques...