January 2011
28 posts
The Neuroscience of Music (Frontal Cortex) →
psychotherapy:
Why does music make us feel? On the one hand, music is a purely abstract art form, devoid of language or explicit ideas. The stories it tells are all subtlety and subtext. And yet, even though music says little, it still manages to touch us deep, to tickle some universal nerves. When listening to our favorite songs, our body betrays all the symptoms of emotional arousal. The...
Two churches located across the street from each...
pretendings:
fujiidom:
thequietworld / paranoidrobot:
Free dog souls with conversion.
Beyond the Snow Belt
Mary Oliver Over the local stations, one by one, Announcers list disasters like dark poems That always happen in the skull of winter. But once again the storm has passed us by: Lovely and moderate, the snow lies down While shouting children hurry back to play, And scarved and smiling citizens once more Sweep down their easy paths of pride and welcome. And what else might we...
conan the barbarian teaches for america.
I was recently offered an interview by Teach for America. I am excited and nervous, and my dear friend spanishleather offered this sage advice:
Crush your Teach For America interview, see your Teach For America interview driven before you, and hear the lamentation’s of your Teach For America interview’s women.
This is why spanishleather and I have been friends for the better part...
dreaming of the future.
Coming to terms with my anxiety about graduating this semester and writing my thesis has inspired a recent spate of nightmares and other odd dreams. I am the sort of person to rarely remember my dreams at all, which is why the last week has been so strange. In review:
1. Dreamed that I was married to a werewolf who didn’t transform because of the moon, but because of lust. On our wedding...
ihatemusic1943:
Orphée Suite
music by Philip...
these go to 11.: fuckyeahjerseyshore: Comparing... →
fuckyeahjerseyshore:
Comparing Snooki to other American Writers
On seeing another person, as if for the first time: Fitzgerald: “Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes, and of Daisy, gleaming like…
Music and Disability →
The book builds his theory in steps, beginning with an account of several one-handed classical pianists, particularly ones who suffered hand injuries that radically altered their playing abilities. Lubet then describes several physically disabled jazz musicians, particularly Reinhardt, who overcame severe finger injuries by developing idiosyncratic but highly advanced playing techniques.
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