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@JohnBrady ah! One of my favorite things about Noodler’s inks is they only bond to cellulose fibers. They wash out with soap and water very easily.

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@bradleyandroos Insane, but much more understandable after I watched the video of the bird. That is magic!

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Needing it this evening, we had to search the house for a tube of desitin. As sure a sign as any so far that a certain phase of parenting has passed.

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@thedimpause Sean is the absolute best in the game of classical guitar right now. No one else’s albums make me excited like his.

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@JohnBrady for the average player, yes it is. I forbid them for my students studying to be professionals. They have to develop their ear to play in tune, not just be in tune.

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My friend who sings in the Phoenix Chorale pointed me to their wonderful new album of American music. They sound fantastic. Some personal favorites and lots new to me, including a few by shaker composer Hannah Cohoon.

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@tinyroofnail I think about this with my students… basically all the time. Music students seems to be a little more durable (they have already done something hard in their life, practicing for hours a day) but when I encounter others they sometimes seem paper thin.

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Well, one year ago today I signed up for micro.blog. I couldn’t have found a better online home. Returning to blogging has been a good outlet for me and having a place to post and interact with people (with no stupid games and no stupid prizes) has been an added bonus. Thank you, @manton.

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@fgtech That looks like a book I will enjoy, thanks for the recommendation.

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@bethanyh @davoh It really was hilarious. His overall disdain for traffic (and willingness to drive miles on backroads to avoid it) was very relatable.

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@canneddragons Re: comparison as review: I think in music it’s much harder to go without this. Our descriptive language of music is fairly limited so “sounds like X” is often the best you can do.

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📚Finished Reading: Travels with Charley in Search of America, John Steinbeck.

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Steinbeck’s ability as a stylist are really on display here. Other than a few interesting encounters not much happens in this book. It is described so beautifully, though, you just want to keep reading.

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Nature & Nurture: isaacgreene.com

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@JudsonGreene He also appears to have two left feet… in the literal sense.

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In 1686, one [japanese] archer shot 13,053 arrows over 24 hours (9 per minute), of which 8,133 hit the mark (more than five arrows per minute).

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The men were men then, I suppose. So many delightful historic tidbits in this article on archery.

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@JudsonGreene Congratulations, brother. Can’t wait to get my hands on a copy. I’m ready to feel very in-over-my-head.

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I’ve been playing this piece and wearing this tie since high school. The tie still gets compliments and Bach is still hard.

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@dwalbert At least I didn’t put on any pretentious airs. At least…

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And fortunately by the time I got to Webern and Stockhausen I had a good pair of headphones.

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📚Finished Reading: The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion.

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I had no idea what I was getting into, I’ve just been meaning to read a Didion book for a long time and that’s one I had on a shelf. A beautiful and tragic piece of writing.

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And if you were like, “Man, I really need more clavichord music in my life,” might I recommend Keith Jarrett’s album-length improvisation Book of Ways. This one blew me away the first time I heard it.

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@JudsonGreene I’ve definitely caught her listening on her own a few times. The piano etudes mostly.

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@JohnBrady Reminds me of when I was seriously into Philip Glass my mom hated it. One day she was listening to Vivaldi and I pointed out it was just Philip Glass changing chords impatiently. (Obviously, I was a delight as a teenager).

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The tone of this clavichord is basically the 17th century’s answer to the Mini Moog. What a great sound.

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@bethanyh Good call. I have never heard so much crying in a theater (including my own) as seeing Hamnet.

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@cjhubbs Charley would be a great palette cleanser. Packed with beautiful observational writing, but without the devastation. Perfect paragraphs just flow through it.

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@cjhubbs Phew, indeed. Read it twice in college and have needed many years off to come back to Steinbeck. Warming up on Travels With Charley and hitting East of Eden next.

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@dwalbert If I do a commission with notation the odds of it being Bach are ~%100. Fear not.

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@dwalbert I haven’t felt this flattered since I don’t know when.

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I’ll think seriously about that.

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@dwalbert once your laser templates are set up you could even move production overseas!

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Seriously though, this reminded me that when my art budget has been replenished I need to buy one of yours with music for my studio.

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@dwalbert Missed one: Why don’t you just use a cnc?

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@ReaderJohn It somehow seems to be a law of unscripted podcasts that no matter how good the subject-matter content, it will always be diluted by some (maybe many!) minutes of pop culture chatter. Even my beloved Advisory Opinions, though at least they usually save it for the end.

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@jabel Just read the Heaney poem the other day. Man, what a line.

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@cjhubbs I’m expect you’re still vibrating at this point. It’s one of those albums I try to listen to at least once a year.

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@tinyroofnail When I was a kid we watched it while we ate lunch almost every day (homeschoolers).

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There are some episodes on YouTube, my six year old loves it!

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@bbowman Funny, I actually thought about that book reading the Alexandr Wang announcement/essay everyone was talking about the other day.

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The Morlocks in the Wishbone version absolutely haunted me as a child.

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My son riding his bike for the first time this afternoon. So this is what fatherly pride feels like.

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The perfect Saturday. My in-laws offered to take the kids for the weekend, so my wife and I:\nWent for a 19 mile e-bike ride with a stop at the lake to read and the creperie for lunch. Played some music together. Got dim sum for dinner and heard a lovely concert by the hometown orchestra.

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Jonathan Malesic recounts uncovering an author using A.I. to publish 31 articles in 6 languages across 10 religious journals including Plough, Commonweal, and a cover story for Touchstone.

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I suspect a lot of journals (that care) will have to stop taking pitches from authors they don’t know.

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Unsolicited Advice for Reading Music Books: isaacgreene.com

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📚Finished Reading: Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar.

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Phew, what a book this was. The highlight was the first half (the plot twist resembled that of a book I really don’t like, which cooled me on it a bit toward the end). I have read some of Akbar’s poetry as well, a writer to keep an eye on.

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A nice trio of recent posts surrounding similar themes:

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JA Westenberg on anger as a point of digital focus, an anti-hearth.

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@jabel’s beautiful post about deciding to be a Sticker.

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And @bradleyandroos on speaking the truth in love to build commonality and life together.

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Taught about practicing today. The most important class of the year.

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The CD player is a huge hit with the family. There has been a pile of cds out every day when I get home from work and I’m listening some amazing old albums I haven’t thought about in years.

\n

Once again making progress by going back.

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The People Who Take Guitar Lessons: isaacgreene.com

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For the first time in many years I have a CD player set up in my home stereo. (This one, it’s just what I wanted). Time to visit some old friends.

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Ask Questions Like a 3rd Grader: isaacgreene.com

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This hideous album art is hiding some of the best piano playing on record. Schumann and Brendel at their best

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“Shooting this machine gun blindfolded will probably kill some folks, but if I let go someone else will aim it at them so I better keep shooting.”

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This is the ethical argument made by Anthropic this week.

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I Was Ten Years Old: isaacgreene.com

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📚Finished Reading: Matilda, Roald Dahl.

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My son loved this one, I was horrified by how much worse the adults are than I remembered.

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