January 2014
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Time to touch base in the jazz world: Joe Pass, "Blues in G". Next week, a folk guitarist, and after that whatever strikes my fancy from week to week. Ok, one more, somewhat livelier: I wish I could say that I understood this kind of improvisation. I appreciate the enormous skill, and I…
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If you've tried to leave a comment and gotten the message "not a hash reference," it's not your problem. Something seems to be wrong at TypePad. UPDATE, 10pm Central (USA) time: TypePad says on their Twitter feed (I'm not on Twitter but they publish it on their main page): "We are noticing that there’s an issue…
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I'm beginning to run out of steam on this effort to watch as many as possible of the movies saved on our DVR before it goes back to AT&T. I told my wife the other day that we are at risk of becoming couch potatoes. But here are three from the past three weeks or…
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A little extra in the guitar series. It doesn't quite fit there, since the idea was to feature one guitarist in every post, although in a few cases (Duane Allman being the most obvious) it's hard to isolate one player from a group. And these three will all get their own posts at some point…
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"What's up i am kavin, its my first occasion to commenting anyplace, when i read this Kathleen Battle and Wynton Marsalis: Silent Night – Light On Dark Water i thought i could also create comment due to this brilliant article."
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I'm pretty sure it was 1992 when I first heard Rush Limbaugh, because I remember him talking about Bill Clinton's presidential campaign. It's hard for people who weren't around, and of conservative sympathies, at that time to understand how much fun it was when he came on the scene. Almost all the media, electronic and…
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Jimi Hendrix may not have been the absolute most proficient guitarist, in the sense of playing extremely fast and complex stuff, ever to play rock. But no one has ever been more expressive. And no one been more influential. More than forty years after his death, he's still revered by guitarists, and even with today's…
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"Searching for Time Travelers Probably A Waste of Time"
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(This post has been sitting around almost finished for a week or two; time to go ahead and get it out of the way.) It's unfortunate that the political aspects of Evangelii Gaudium have so overshadowed its focus on evangelization. But since they have, I find myself wanting to respond further to it and to…
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…desire truth and goodness, for desire fits one to receive what one desires… There is God, the Supreme Spirit. We can know almost nothing about Him; we can know that He exists by reason; so far as He can be revealed to our finite minds at all, He is revealed by Christ. We can't receive…
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