by Reverb Raccoon with Diann Zimmerman | May 3, 2021 | Guest Posts, Music, Off the Wall
Seven Songs for a More Colorful Tuesday In the opening moments of my college crystallography class, an ancient professor named Kaupp stood before us and intoned: Goethe said, ‘Symmetry is rhythm standing still.’ After this promising opening, Herr Professor...
by Charles Norman | May 1, 2021 | Music, Song of the Day
Camilo A Secas – Un Querer del Bueno Then that same afternoon it was Florentino Ariza who saw the face of death when he received an envelope containing a strip of paper, torn from the margin of a school notebook, on which a one-line answer was written in pencil:...
by Charles Norman | Apr 24, 2021 | Features, Music
J.M. Baule – Compositor, letrista, adaptador de canciones It’s true that no translation is identical to the original. But no reading of a poem is identical to any other, even when read by the same person… The poem must move from reader to reader,...
by Charles Norman | Apr 21, 2021 | Music, Song of the Day
Jim Basnight and The Moberlys – Ain’t It Funny There is still left a single story of a way, that it is. On this way there are signs exceedingly many — that being ungenerated it is also imperishable, whole and of a single kind and unshaken and...
by Charles Norman | Apr 16, 2021 | Music, Song of the Day
Low Ceilings – Grass is Greener He is the god and yet his eye rests with concern on the human race, because the tender shoot of the individual can be crushed as quickly as that of a blade of grass. — Søren Kierkegaard, Repetition The corn, the grass, the...
by Charles Norman | Apr 14, 2021 | Music, Song of the Day
Vary Landers – Uselessness We may define a disorder as any personal construction which is used repeatedly in spite of consistent invalidation. — George A. Kelly, The Psychology of Personal Constructs (1955) If you always do what you’ve always done, you...
