Friday Night Music #4- Seefeel - Signals

This is music so slight that it's almost not music, but I'm pretty sure I've listened to this about 100 times. Its icy stillness is perfect. Enjoy this ice at the advent of spring.

Friday Night Music 3 - Ralph Vaughan Williams - Charterhouse Suite for strings

Here is a beautiful, polyphonous, pastoral, and fun piece by Ralph Vaughan Williams, his Charterhouse Suite. It's kinda like a British "Tombeau de Couperin".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q__KMRoOdo0

Ralph Vaughan Williams rules.

Friday Night Music #2

Ach! I'm late. So sorry!

We have the incredible Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli playing Chopin's Berceuse in D-flat Major. Please enjoy.

Polar equations can be very beautiful.
#precalculus

MTA Poetry in Motion

The MTA / New York City Transit has an online archive of its "Poetry in Motion" series of subway posters.

http://web.mta.info/mta/aft/poetry/poetry.html

A good poem becomes a part of your soul. I have fond memories of many of these subway poems. A while ago, they displayed what became one of my few "memorized poems", Tell all the truth but tell it slant (which is among other things a great meditation on teaching).

But I particularly love many of the subway poems from 2017:

This "Poem" by Charles Simic is lovely. It is the perfect poem to read in the early morning when you're not sure you want to be going where you're going:

If this poem is a workday poem, the following is a Sunday poem, by Major Jackson:

"an empire of hand-holding and park benches"

Who wouldn't want that?

Another favorite of mine: "Hide-and Seek 1933" by Galway Kinnell,

"a matter of honor"

In general the quality of these posters has improved. In 2012, the posters displayed a very large and distracting "Poetry in Motion" logo, and now it appears alongside the other logos on the bottom. There's now more room for creative synthesis of poetry and visuals.

Alas, there doesn't seem a way to buy these lovely poem/posters, even on the online transit museum store.

Friday night music

One of my 40 year plans is to play the entirety of both books of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. It is also my plan to post peaceful music every Friday night. Here is the Book 1 Prelude and Fugue in C-Sharp Major.

In favor of tepid takes

This weblog will contain no "hot takes".

All the takes will be room temperature.

If the goal of the LookBook and BirdSound Corporations is to increase engagement by exploiting our limbic systems, my goal is to decrease engagement until everyone is sound asleep.

A picture of me and a tree

This post contains a picture of me and a tree (who shall, for now, remain nameless).

This is a notebook

Hello world,

The intention of this weblog is to provide a long-term journal of my life that friends, family, and casual acquaintances can read.

It will be comment-free. If you want to contact me, you'll find a way, I am sure.

This goal is to ensure that my idiotic thoughts will
1) be publicly accessible
2) not be effectively monetized by anyone