If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I just got sourced something (merci Kirsi!) which puts a fun spin on one of my old grievances: our educational system. Indeed, thanks to the BBC’s Look Around You, my anger with the industrial-age assumptions that drive much of the [...]
Monday, March 5, 2007
Musicians are well-known for being hypersensitive freaks. Baring their souls to the world, they rarely suffer fools when it comes to lukewarm responses to their public performances. Indifference is the worst crime, in their view, to their appeals to be universally loved through their art. Combine this trait with a (barely concealed) conceit of wannabe semi-godhood [...]
Friday, March 2, 2007
It’s true, Vivaldi’s the dude behind my initial decision to learn a musical instrument. Recently pondering on the movers and shakers of my life, I’ve been left wondering how many other wannabe violin virtuosos Vivaldi must has spawned. And, conversely, how many misguided career choices. We’ve all heard of people who were compelled in childhood to take [...]
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
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