June 3:
Teachers (1967):
Waiting for the Miracle (1992):
June 4:
The Gypsy Wife (1979):
Darkness (2012):
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Leonard Cohen Month, Songs 1-4
By way of commemoration of my recent visit to Hydra, I’ve decided to make June my personal Leonard Cohen month by posting two Cohen songs per day, both here and on facebook. (It was originally going to be one song per day, but it was too hard to pick.)
Since we’re already five days into June, I’ll be posting four songs per day until I get caught up. They’re not in either order of preference (too hard!) or chronological order (I prefer to alternate between his rather different early and late styles).
1 June:
Famous Blue Raincoat (1971):
My Secret Life (2001):
2 June:
The Stranger (1967):
Everybody Knows (1988):
Song of the Variable Time-Unit, 5/19/19: For Signs and For Seasons
An unusually illuminating performance of Vivaldi:
Song of the Variable Time-Unit, 5/16/2019: When You Play the Game of Thrones, You Have a Loaded Gun Or You Dig
The Game of Thrones theme music, done in the style of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, is one of the best things in the universe. Why am I only discovering these covers now?
P.S. – Check out a similar version of the Harry Potter theme also.
Vernal Venturings
Two weeks ago I was in New Orleans for the PPE conference. I gave a talk at a panel on self-ownership, and moderated two panels I’d organised, one on anarchist legal theory (with [a subset of] the Molinari/C4SS gang), and one on race and social construction. We discovered a great 24-hour Middle Eastern restaurant, Cleo’s (the new one on Decatur, not the old one-inside-a-grocery on Canal).
Last week, back in Auburn, I attended our department’s 11th annual philosophy conference, this one on explanation and idealisation in science. During Q&A I rode my precisive/non-precisive hobbyhorse as usual.
Right now I’m in San Diego for the WPSA, where I’ll be presenting my Shakespeare/Godwin/Kafka talk. Yesterday I stopped by the Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore and bought volumes 6 and 7 in the Expanse series (which I’ll be blogging about in due course; just for now I’ll say: it’s good, read it). Had a delicious farfalle al salmone last night at a sidewalk table at Buon Appetito in Little Italy, and enjoyed an omelette-and-bagel breakfast this morning at Harbor Breakfast to the sound of great jazz songs old and new. (I’ve also been violating the laws of physics, because why not?)
(The day before catching my plane from Atlanta to San Diego, I’d planned to drive up early, go to a bookstore in Atlanta, have a leisurely dinner, and then spend the night at a hotel. But the threat of tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, and two-inch hailstones kept me in Auburn until the evening when the forecast expired, so by the time I got to Atlanta there was time only for a quick bite at the 24-hour Waffle House across from the hotel.)
Next week I’m off to Prague, where I’ll be giving a workshop on praxeology at the CEVRO Institute, and then presenting a slightly revised version of my Čapek/Kafka/Hašek talk (yes, more Kafka!) at the PCPE. (The revision is a very slightly fuller discussion of my suggestion that Kafka’s bureaucratic nightmares are intended to be read at two levels – a political level, where they’re condemned, and a theological level, where they’re not. There’ll be a print version eventually, inshallah.)
Song of the Variable Time-Unit, 4/4/2019; or, I Shoulda Learned to Play the Gittern
Angelorum psalat, a 14th or 15th-century work by the mysterious composer “S. Uciredor” (read it backwards), who may or may not be the same person as the 15th-century Spanish musician Rodrigo de la Guitarra: