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Music Listening 2
Music sounds different in the morning or late at night when you’re impatient or even-tempered when it’s your own or a stranger’s when you imagine her listening when it’s bonafide like Bach or played by the guy on the train who sings Neil Young badly when you’re wishing you were more skilled at listening when… Continue reading
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Searches That Brought You Here: Nassim Taleb, David Abram, Walter Percy
• Thomas, I’m curious what your take is on Taleb. This search brought you to my post on the musical applications of some of the ideas from Nassim Taleb’s book Antifragile. I wrote: “Tinkering is a process of trial and error that allows one to make many small mistakes or incur small losses. The mistakes… Continue reading
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Subway Band
The cover band in Times Square that only plays Beatles songs sounds broken their songs lurch along unsteady and strum heavy rushing beats and pitchy vocals just holding together but the tunes still travel memory maps of the early days singing a hard days night at a pub in Hamburg because even ragged music doesn’t feel sorry… Continue reading

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