After reviewing a bunch of options, I learned quite a bit about how books can be referenced, and the many systems involved. Not entirely, of course - there’s probably a loss of $30 or $40 yearly for running this site.Īnyway, I decided that I cared more about good, neutral, reliable links than I do about absolute convenience or some attempt at profitability. It’s where a majority of people consume books anyway, it’s the only place to link to for Amazon-only eBooks, and fees Amazon paid helped to cover my domain registration & gaug.es account. For years, I’ve defaulted links to Amazon. I’ve made a bit of an update to this site: when I link to books, from now on I’m going to link to WorldCat instead of Amazon. I’m working on reducing my TV consumption and replace it with reading, running, and going to things in the area. I’m also learning the rest of Satie’s catalog - currently Ce Que Dit La Petite Princesse Des Tulipes ‘What the Little Princess of Tulips Said’. I learned Ravel’s Pavane de la Belle au Bois Dormant, ( wiki link). is just spectacular for this purpose: it’s a well-organized, fast, to-the-point website with tabs of many many pieces.

I would say ‘classical guitar music’, but I’m not sure if that’s pedantically true, given that all of the music I like to learn was originally written for the piano. I’ve been learning and practicing classical music on the guitar recently. New Energy by Four Tetįour Tet’s new music has been making waves, partly because his sharing of the minimal gear that he wrote the album on. I’ve adored Way Yes for years now, and their new album gives me a much-needed hit of inspiration. It covers many details and dynamics that my limited history education missed. And, just as Nixonland was an education on the real substance of the civil rights struggle in the US, this has been an invaluable lesson on slavery. The book doesn’t follow the exciting adventure through time format of similar historical non-fiction: it digs into the minute details of the instrument’s history, predecessors, and context. It’s been my reading this month, and I’m quite enjoying it.

I went to a Logic magazine event at City Lights bookstore, and I glanced to my right and saw The banjo: America’s African Instrument, and immediately bought it.

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