Monthly Archives: December 2004

A Look at Language

An Enjoyable Read by a Berkeley Linguist?

Sex With Pandas

A Link to an Applebees Aficionado

Private Thoughts: Exposed!

I recently created a personal blog where I have been occassionally posting random musings and thoughts. Most of it is unrelated to my performances, but for those interested in a more personal glimpse into my life it can be had at Noumenon.
The mission and explanation of the why’s and how’s is also available there. Enjoy! [...]

Reviving Words

No, not a magical incantation to raise the dead (for that, see the link to Alcor), but rather a few words, reflections if you will, on playing classical guitar, written years ago.
Though short, they were recently uncovered and I thought that I might share them here.
The Nature of Classical Guitar: Reflections from a Personal Perspective
Music [...]

iPod Isolation

Being-in-the-World with Technology

Art is Inherently Controversial

Speak Your Mind and Mean It

No Dessert Until You Finish Your Dinner

How Pharmaceuticals are Making us Dumb

The Thresher

Magazine Disappears More Mysteriously Than a Nuclear Sub

Sudden Noises

Several weeks ago the local alternative newspaper Seven Days ran two articles in the same issue that, despite their lack of explicit connection, nevertheless seemed to betray an intimate association.
The first article concerned an eccentric local composer named David Gunn. The second was a review of the book Sudden Noises from Inanimate Objects by [...]

A Kantian Welcome

As this site is named after a Kantian concept, I thought it would be appropriate to post an article from my own days as a philosophy student, way back when. This particular selection is from a very lengthy commentary upon Kant’s own Critique of Pure Reason that I wrote while involved in a detailed [...]