A Worldly Country. — with that strange period in the title — is John Ashbery’s 24th book of poetry, published in 2007, when he was 79. It’s hard to pan a book by a poet of 79, plus this is quite a good one — or anyway, mostly it is. Do some of the poems […]
DRUM! Gets Down To The Odd Time Sound of Matt Cameron With Reunited Soundgarden
San Jose, Calif., — As 2012 rolls to an end, Enter Music Publishing, publishers of hip, drum/percussion magazines, is groovin’ full-speed ahead. So, it’s no surprise that DRUM! Magazine’s December Issue features Matt Cameron, discussing his odd time grooves with the reunited Sound Garden on King Animal. No Stranger To Odd Time From Soundgarden’s hit […]
Southbound humpback whales sing along on Gold Coast
By Michael S. Smith I’d never heard anything like it. Monolithic sounds blasted and bubbled between silent spaces. Slow rhythms and themes, notes like obsidian ocean swells and the heart swallowing troughs between. The minute-long song moved me. It started with gum-leaf squeaks followed by whale oinks that sounded like […]
Amaral gets the glory
Although the exhibition was a great surge of people near ten o’clock at night, when was the turn of Amaral, large curtains covered the stands without filling In the first edition of Fnac Music Festival (FMF), which held its opening night yesterday at the Sports Palace of Madrid (tomorrow will be another in the […]
Financial Ties Bind Medical Societies to Drug and Device Makers
From the time they arrived to the moment they laid their heads on hotel pillows, the thousands of cardiologists attending this week’s Heart Rhythm Society conference have been bombarded with pitches for drugs and medical devices. St. Jude Medical adorns every hotel key card. Medtronic ads are splashed on buses, banners and the stairs underfoot. […]
Some people discourage attempts because they are continuously afraid of failure
Nothing attempted, nothing gained Some people discourage attempts because they are continuously afraid of failure. But if failure has to come, it had better come while trying to succeed. Read the biographies of our greatest men. They failed many times. Louis Pasteur, for instance, was described as `a scientific Phoenix who arose triumphant from the […]
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