no peanuts in church…

"You might as well face the music. You've tried everything else…" -Sun Ra.

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  • “Brother, can you Paradigm…”

    I haven’t posted much music online, but I do seem to have been recording things, here and there. Hours of it. So here’s one of them. Noise. Drone. Shimmer. Wandering beat. Two-track, direct into the Tascam DP-008ex. Seasoned a little in Ableton Live. There’s a Neutron in there, somewhere. And an S-1. And some drummy… Continue reading

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  • New England Townships

    Some ‘Yankee’ wisdom (via de Tocqueville)… Each individual is therefore considered to be as enlightened, as virtuous, as strong as any of his fellows. Ok. This means that we can do whatever we want, right…? He obeys society, not at all because he is inferior to those who direct it, or less capable than another… Continue reading

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  • John Adams, small-r ‘republican’…

    A little quote I ran into from ~1776: The balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of equal liberty and public virtue is to make the acquisition of land easy to every member of society,… Continue reading

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  • The Wakeup Machine

    Back in 2011-2013 or so, this was originally supposed to be a music blog. Life, politics, the Meme Wars, COVID etc intervened. After I sold the old house back in 2019, I no longer had room for a dedicated music studio. I did try to work laptop-only for awhile, but honestly, that has never worked… Continue reading

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  • on twitter, and the sole proprietor…

    Here’s why I stopped long-form blogging all those years ago: I didn’t see the point of it. Because, you see, No Audience. No Pushback. By 2013 the blogosphere was already in decline. Too many of us out there, no way to share ideas with Others without having to turn oneself into a Brand, to attract… Continue reading

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