“Composers mostly don’t wait for rain; they invent their own water. In the slow movement of the Archduke Trio, for instance, I feel Beethoven created the theme in order that he could simply swim in it. It’s a current which carries him, and the measure of his success is his surrender.”
—Jeremy Denk #
Archive for February, 2009
“Should I sign my songs? Or do my songs show signatures in the way that they are sung?”
—Phil Elverum #
Ludacris and She & Him: Sentimental Mouths
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Oh man. (from The Hood Internet remix blog) #
In between the stopping and starting of the fan, when the train switches power outside the tunnel, someone’s pinning down quiet notes on a uke. It’s missing a string. The second car slides out of the tunnel and it’s pouring again; at the station, a slight Chinese woman asked me for directions to 19th Ave. I was still in Los Angeles, and repeated back to her several times, “La Tijera?” Eventually I motioned that she should follow me, and we sat together on the orange plastic seats, and I poked at each stop on the line in turn, a bouncing ball at one syllable after another.
I opened the front door and took off my shoes, and walked into the bedroom. Her sandals were on the carpet, the usual glass half-full of water on the nightstand, and I didn’t want to move them, not just yet. #
A revealing malapropism encountered at work: “the last acceptance criteria eludes to it.” #
