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TommyCoughdrops

About Me

Si hoc legere scis, nimium eruditionis habes.

Sister Sanctified - Stanley Turrentine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VV7xGRVJbc

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

inventors, futurists, ironsmiths, silk merchants and spice traders, unreliable narrators, taggers with manifestos, Entartistes , troubadours and balladeers, aeronautic engineers, left-handed guitarists, pearl divers, tomato afficionados, purveyors of potatoes, orchid thieves, groove merchants, sweetly drunken monks, and people who imagine and demand a better world and those who work to create it.

My Blog

Art of the Fugue

What was Douglas Hofstadter talking about in Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, when he discussed Bach, counterpoint, and canons?  Want to learn years’ worth of the music theory ...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:07:00 GMT

Randy Newman musings

I've been listening to some Randy Newman recently. Sometimes political, always sardonic, he writes character-driven songs with sometimes surprising harmonies. Among his more famous songs are the count...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:58:00 GMT

Fibbocs on Youtube

I've found myself reading a bit about music lately.  From Aaron Copland's What to Listen for in Music to Chuck Klosterman's Fargo Rock City, Nick Hornby's  Songbook, and a good chunk of Lest...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:05:00 GMT