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Stephen Mejias
Audiophile, with Occasional Music
Stephen Mejias  |  Mar 22, 2007  |  3 comments
(all you ever have to know about life is that little girls are taught to dance and little boys are taught to kick it's all over from there my son is going to get a whole bunch of garbage for his birthday and i'll say here boy play music)
—lines from an old poem, "the green water rocks / make me cry," by me
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Wes Phillips
The Peculiar Pleasure of Ear Plugs
Wes Phillips  |  Mar 22, 2007  |  0 comments
Thomas Beller meditates on the pleasures of taking an aural time out. At Tyll Hertsens' urging, I began doing this about 10 years ago—it's amazing how much it makes you hear what you normally tune out. Of course, that's not always a good thing, as Beller points out.
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Wes Phillips
Roll Over Beethoven
Wes Phillips  |  Mar 22, 2007  |  0 comments
"Intelligent teenagers often listen to heavy metal music to cope with the pressures associated with being talented, according to research."
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Wes Phillips
Everything We Thought We Knew About the Sun Is Now Out of Date
Wes Phillips  |  Mar 22, 2007  |  0 comments
The Japanese orbiting solar observatory Hinode has captured startling images of the Sun's outer limb and giant magnetic field loops crashing down into its surface. "Where astronomers expected to see a calm region called the chromosphere, they saw a seething mass of swaying spikes."
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Wes Phillips
Touchstone
Wes Phillips  |  Mar 22, 2007  |  0 comments
It's a good thing for us that Jeremy Denk got restless at a concert recently. One thought led to another, he rushed home to check out a CD he thought linked to his thoughts, and the next thing we know, he's deep into an analysis of the chorale in Beethoven's "Spring" sonata (No. 5 in F, Op. 24).
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Stephen Mejias
As She Climbed Across the Audiophile
Stephen Mejias  |  Mar 21, 2007  |  2 comments
"Nice blogging," says JA.
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Wes Phillips
Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
Wes Phillips  |  Mar 21, 2007  |  0 comments
Especially when it comes to Nikola Tesla.
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Wes Phillips
Music and the Brain
Wes Phillips  |  Mar 21, 2007  |  0 comments
Greg Stepanich watches House. It seems like he got more out of the recent episode featuring Dave Matthews than I did.
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Wes Phillips
Made in New York
Wes Phillips  |  Mar 21, 2007  |  0 comments
Business Week has a cool photo essay on the making of a Steinway. The accompanying article is worth reading, too, but the pix are primo.
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Wes Phillips
Pimp My Book Cart
Wes Phillips  |  Mar 21, 2007  |  0 comments
Who knew there was so much librarian humor out there?
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