The First Word

28, February 2008

The First Word is Linked to New York Times Article

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25, February 2008

The Dream Spoke and the Dreamer Listened

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I am searching for the source of the feeling you gave me and moved me to tears. The individual notes can be notated and are there for anyone to read in black and white. Your timing can be timed and found to be either slow or fast. The pattern of your voice can be mapped and analysed from every angle for pitch, volume, cadence, and other innumerable qualities but there is nowhere in the melody that gives me the answer. Can colours be expressed by numbers or the subtleties of thought by a machine or the power the music has to stir feelings by a mere theory. (more…)

12, February 2008

Becoming Less

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I was met as I came in the door by a woman with a name badge who remembered my name.  She took my card and I sat down and waited for my name to be called.  I looked around there was a woman in her early twenties staring at the wall with her hand inside her shirt absent mindedly adjusting her bra strap oblivious to the hormone charged  youths oggling her casually exposed cleavage.    (more…)

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