[OT] Some music for you (and stuff about what's happened)

[cramakrishnan@xxxxxxx]

Here's a something I improvised today using SuperCollider and my
guitar.  I mixed it down to mono and converted to mp3, but it has been
otherwise unmodified.

  http://homepage.mac.com/dsvitek/FileSharing.html

It's not microsound -- it is in Em (i was being a lazy guitar
player). But maybe I'll make a remix in a couple of weeks. It's got
loops too, sorry.

I don't think killing innocent civilians is ever acceptable, whether
those civilians are Cambodian, Panamanian, Iraqi, or American. Or
Afghani (etc.).

I know that my country does terrible things. I understand that for
some people in the world, every single day of their lives is like
yesterday was for many of us. But at the same time, I used work at the
World Trade Center and have friends who still did and a friend who
lives quite close, in TriBeCa. I was very fortunate -- they are all ok
(though I'm still waiting to hear from some friends in Brooklyn, but
they're probably fine...). I wish that everyone else could be as
fortunate.

This quote is, perhaps, naive, but it's a lot better response than
some of the things I've heard from the mouths of the representatives
of my country:

"I honestly do think poetry is important to people, in much the same
way that clean air and food and water are important to people. I do
not have my head up my ass; I know that people are being murdered so
that I can have bananas three pounds for a dollar. I know that most of
the human race goes to sleep and wakes up hungry. I know that most of
the wealth of the earth comes to my country and turns to atomic
waste. I know that every hour species of my fellow beings born with
Adam will become extinct. I know this planet is being poisoned to
death because of vanity and fear and hate, and I know these things are
mine. I believe that poetry is an immediate answer and an ultimate
answer to these things; I believe that poetry is the language of the
Muse, Who exists in a far different way from a cute conceit. I don't
think there are such things as "good poetry" and "bad poetry"; I think
there is a part of language that's the language of the Muse, Who is a
Goddess, and God help us all!"

  Wanda Tinasky (almost certainly a pseudonym for Thomas Pynchon)
  
- sekhar

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C. Ramakrishnan        cramakrishnan@xxxxxxx