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snō pə-trōl

It just isn’t very easy to describe how good something is, is it? Saying that another concert was “awesome” or “fucking great” or whatever doesn’t really serve to differentiate it from any other good show. Or to paraphrase:
Those three words
Are said too much
They’re not enough
So I guess what I’ll say is that […]

Erik, the lovesick cricket

Erik moved in sometime last week. At first I thought he was a cockroach, but I realized my mistake when I noticed his light color, long legs, and penchant for strutting around the carpet right in front of me with the room fully-lit. He got a little more cautious though after I threw […]

something has to change
what’s wrong?
nothing major
maybe that’s why something has to change
i was down-regulated last week but there was an obvious reason.  not so right now.
i’m past this morning thanks to my buddha-like calm.
found a new cd to love.  (though isn’t listening to this kind of song more like mourning?)
i think the defining characteristic of […]

Cave raves

“The music promoted a sense of ‘we’-ness, of being together in the same situation facing the same problems…  creating a social rather than a merely individual identity.”
The evolutionary social psychology of music
This is really cool.  It’s an article about an archaeologist who’s exploring why we as humans developed music, and why we still love to […]