Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Might Makes Right

Or: Dieu et mon droit. I’m surprised Trump hasn’t fallen back on that one, yet. Well, yeah. 😈 I mean, it’s not like Trump has ever been guilty of fraud, or anything.
Marco Rubio: "The oil proceeds are being deposited into an account that ultimately will become a US Treasury blocked account here in the US. We will say 'this is what this money can be spent on.' They will submit to us a budget request -- 'we want to use the money on these things.' Part of the proceeds will go to fund an audit process."
“Trust us. Have we ever lied to you?” I know that’s going to reassure the world. They have completely lost the plot. 😈. Again.
"Deep" is relative. The first time I heard a Philip Glass composition, it was “Einstein on the Beach.” You wanna go deep, you got for some of his songs. Or his music for “Dracula,” or “La Belle et la Bete.”

Granted, I’m not up on his symphonic works.

Pretty sure I’ve got those I mentioned around here somewhere….

I know I’ve wandered into the wilderness on no clear path, but there’s just so much crunchy goodness this morning.
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  1. The Thought Criminal11:25 AM

    I had a hankering to hear Hunter Biden tell George Clooney, the Pod Save America boys, etc. to F themselves this morning and found that the entire three plus hours of that interview is available on Youtube and as a download mp3 file. I'm downloading the mp3 because I think I'm going to want to hear it over and over again like I do some of the other great moments like the late Glenda Jackson ripping apart the corpse of Maggie Thatcher in the House of Commons. I'm waiting to see Bessent getting ripped to shreds, hopefully somewhat literally. I want to see him in prison doing hard time.

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    1. The Thought Criminal11:35 AM

      Rubio too.
      About Phillip Glass. I remember hearing Einstein on the Beach for the first time, clips of it on Oscar Brand's old public radio show Voices In The Wind and I was excited by it, for about ten minutes. Then I heard the full thing and thought that it was a modern convenience, music that gave itself and failed the test of time on first hearing. I sat through Nixon in China by that other repetition boy, John Adams, too, and saw absolutely no point being made at all. He isn't any Steve Reich. Though I'll give credit where it's due in this case. Mean old Virgil Thomson was the one who called them "the repetition boys." Which reminds me of what Stravinsky said when someone asked him what he thought of John Cage's 3'44" (the silent piano piece) he said he looked forward to his long form works.

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    2. Rmj11:52 AM

      I find “Einstein” still interesting, maybe because I heard it when I was susceptible. But I much prefer David Byrne’s “Knee Plays,” his incidental music to Robert Wilson’s “The Civil Wars.” (The connection being Wilson wrote the “story” for Einstein.”

      I had a recording of Glass’s songs, one IIRC with lyrics by Paul Simon. Unless I have that as an LP in the closet, it’s lost to time now.Always liked that one best.

      Yeah, Cage kind of had his moment, didn’t he? Reminds of the sculpture I saw in the Houston museum long before I moved here. Three silver industrial vacuum cleaners, stacked in a plexiglass box designed to house them. It’s probably in a museum warehouse somewhere, but I doubt it will ever see the light of day again. They also had Oldenburg’s gigantic “Soft Fan,” which I wouldn’t mind seeing again. (I think it was Oldenburg….)

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    3. The Thought Criminal1:28 PM

      I remember seeing a picture of the "Soft Fan." Some of his stuff was at least fun. Lots of that stuff I paid attention to back then I have no interest in at all now. I'm not sorry to have heard it but don't care about it or its composers anymore. I think was Nicholas Nabokov who called it "tissue paper music," use once and throw it away.

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