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Aug.30.2011 - 9:51 pm
After a Facebook exchange about Henry Miller's The Colossus of Maroussi, I grabbed the book from my shelf to revisit the pages. By sheer chance, I flipped it open to the part...
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Aug.23.2011 - 8:35 am
The composer’s mind is like flypaper, ready at any moment to attract and trap an idea, a single sound or a complex of sounds. It may be the rhythms of a group of people...
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Dec.21.2010 - 9:12 pm
In a recent biography of Syd Barrett, titled, A Very Irregular Head, the following passage talks about Syd’s interest in authors who had suffered the loss of a parent at an early...
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Jul.10.2010 - 9:12 am
From Celtic Crossroads: The Art of Van MorrisonBy Brian Hinton ...Van would compose fragments of verse and prose in private notebooks, for his own delight. His inner moods,...
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Comments from Gary

Feb.21.2010 - 10:10 am
In response to: Nelson Algren: Nonconformity
I've written several pieces with this attitude, although I didn't realize it until I read this passage. It doesn't...