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Pandora

by wpmorse on February 7, 2013 at 11:03 am
Posted In: Test

As I work on tomorrow’s strip I am enjoying my Yoko Kanno channel on Pandora. For the most part I like Pandora. I fancy myself having fairly eclectic tastes in music, so while I can be an annoying snob about classical music, I also consider Metallica tame when I have my metalhead hat on. Because of this, there’s nothing I like better than being introduced to a new sound and on this alone Pandora has introduced me to numerous new musicians who I enjoy very much.

Unfortunately it is not a perfect system. While Pandora selects songs that are “like” the artist you are listening to they are not necessarily like the song you are listening to.  This can be very frustrating when I am putting a new playlist together. For example I am always looking for new material for my “Tuesday Rhapsody” segment. I get most of my material going through library archives, but I’d like to find much newer modern material and I know that not all Rhapsodies have the word “Rhapsody” in their title. You would think that Pandora would be the perfect tool for this hunt. Regrettably I’ve found that this is mostly not the case.

Let me put it this way… When I create a channel around “Bohemian Rhapsody” what I did not ask Pandora for is a channel based around the “Best of Queen” For some reason it doesn’t listen.

└ Tags: Music, Pandora, Playlists
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Behemoth

by wpmorse on February 6, 2013 at 7:49 am
Posted In: Test

I have to say one of the things that really scratches my blackboard are Young Earth Creationists. It’s not just that their dogma driven need to institutionalize stupidity is an attack on American exceptionalism it’s that listening to them go on takes all of the fun out of being interested in comparative religion and mythology. To make matters worse there is a complete lack of imagination behind their arguments that makes them fall back on scripture like a broken record thinking that if they only say their stale old talking points loud enough people might actually start taking them seriously. To make matters worse you get the feeling they haven’t really looked at their arguments very well. Take their favorite bit of proof of dinosaurs in the bible, the description of Behemoth in Job 40: 15 to 80

Behold now the behemoth that I have made with you; he eats grass like cattle.
Behold now his strength is in his loins and his power is in the navel of his belly.
His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together.
His limbs are as strong as copper, his bones as a load of iron.

Yeah, I suppose that could be considered a good description of a sauropod but here’s the thing… It’s an even better description of a hippopotamus. And since the writer of Job very likely knew what a hippopotamus was (for all I know may have traveled to Egypt and actually seen one) well… I’ll take Occam’s Razor for 500, Alex.

└ Tags: Bible, Creationism, Job, Rationalism, Reason
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Tuesday Rhapsodies

by wpmorse on February 5, 2013 at 6:19 am
Posted In: Test

Today’s Rhapsody Comes to us from Composer and violist Rebecca Clarke (no specific title given) for Piano and Cello. It has a nice haunting quality to it that I quite like.

└ Tags: Cello, Chamber Music, Classical Music, Music, Piano, Rhapsody
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Friday Museum Sketches

by wpmorse on February 1, 2013 at 1:59 pm
Posted In: Art

ChristLorencoMonocoToday’s Sketch is from the Seattle art Museum’s Renaissance collection. It’s a Crucifixion by Lorenzo Monaco with the Virgin and St John watching.  It was done in Egg Tempera in 1408.

└ Tags: Art, Italian Art, Lorenzo Monaco, Painting, Religious Art, Renaissance
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Journey to the West Movie?

by wpmorse on January 30, 2013 at 7:55 am
Posted In: Test

I’ve been a fan of the fantasy adventure Journey to the West for a very long time. I remember several children’s books about the adventures of Monkey fondly. And when I became aware of the entire story as well as the original material (I recomend the Anthony Yu translation) I liked it even better.

On a side note I’m very fond of Stephen Chow movies and consider him the master of Wu Xia comedy.

So when I heard that his version of Journey to the West is coming out in China this year I was very optimistic.

└ Tags: Journey to the West, Monkey, Movies, Stephen Chow
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Tuesday Rhapsodies

by wpmorse on January 29, 2013 at 6:00 am
Posted In: Test

Today’s Rhapsody is Rapsodia Litewska (Lithuanian Rhapsody) by the Polish Composer and conductor Mieczys?aw Kar?owicz. (Opus 11)

└ Tags: Classical Music, Mieczys?aw Kar?owicz, Music, Rhapsody
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