 Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| turning into another person we have the look of living of beginning again in a new latitude we have the look of being complete. –Joyce Carol Oates |
 Early Spring 3 |
Category: Art
Apr 06 2011
Muse in the Morning
Apr 05 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| If you don’t control your mind, someone else will.
–John Allston |
 Springish |
Apr 04 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| We need–and should encourage and honor–not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values.
–Walter Moberly |
 Early Spring 2 |
Apr 02 2011
Popular Culture (“Music”) 20110401. “Pat” Boone
Last week a commentator put the bug in my ear that I do not ALWAYS have to write about subjects that I like very much. I have done it before, but usually in connexion with other topics. This installment is different.
This one is concerned with Pat Boone, one of the most insipid and untalented “artists” ever to plague us with his presence. He was a creation of his time, and although he could sing, sort of, was and still is, in my opinion, more of a curious relic of desegregation.
Please come with us on a very curious journey that still does not very well explain how a relatively talentless individual has continued to be in the spotlight since before I was born, and I am not that young. Please enter here.
Apr 01 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Strongest minds are often those of whom the noisy world hears last.
–William Wordsworth |
 Drips 2 |
Mar 31 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| … he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass[es].
–Shang Yang |
 Drips |
Mar 30 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Do the common thing in an uncommon way.
–Booker T. Washington |
 Amulet |
Mar 29 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Do others, I wondered, “see things as I do? I do not think so, for if they did they would not still be alive.” And, life-threatening though my vision seemed, I would not repudiate it: “Sometimes I think I shall die from being different even as I cling to the difference fiercely.”
–Nancy Mairs |
 Bubble |
Mar 28 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| There are a lot of things in this world that are more important than being popular. Being true to yourself is one of them.
–Michael Landon |
 Bones |
Mar 26 2011
Popular Culture (Music) 20110325. The Who Sings My Generation
This is the first part of a comprehensive treatment of the albums released by The Who. This promises to be an extremely long series, but I shall intersperse it with other topics from time to time, to keep it from being too monotonous.
I know, but still can not understand why, some folks are not fans of The Who. LOL! This was their first album, and was quite good in some respects, and weak in others. They had already had some hit singles, but nothing astounding as of yet. Note that I am using the U.S. discography by default, since I am in the United States. Where possible, I shall cross reference it to the U.K. one. Note that we shall take the studio albums first, then the live ones, and then attempt the very long list of compilations.
I have written about The Who many times before, but have never started at the beginning of their album career to cover it from then to now. I hope that you like the effort, and some of the excellent music that I shall embed.
Mar 25 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were-I have not seen As others saw. –Edgar Allan Poe |
 Splash of Color 5 |
Mar 24 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me open, my bitter, irritating juices would have stung their eyes, and they would have cried. Although I couldn’t cry myself, much at the time.
But no one would cut me open. –Crescent Dragonwagon |
 Splash of Color 4 |