Or any information about the real story of Indians and the U.S. Government.

OK, so I wasn't done. Kind of.
9:22:38 PM    comment []  Google It!  

Re-run of The West Wing, but I'll watch it again. I'm done.

Oh, and kind of listening to this on Live365.com and thinking I need to tape my show tomorrow night and rebroadcast it. Better blog well tomorrow night.
9:12:14 PM    comment []  Google It!  

Here's an excerpt from an interview that jazz explorer Cecil Taylor gave a while back ('83?) that turns that notion on it's head.

Interviewer: You've told me that you have had music students, and I assume some of them were pianists. What did you ask them to do?
Cecil: I can't really answer the question the way you've presented it. The implications of music are larger than the compartmentalization of technique, form, or content. It's a matter of the ability to express.
Interviewer: What do you mean by musical expression? Expression of what?
Cecil: What do you mean by it?
Interviewer: The realization, the creation, of what you hear.
Cecil: If you hear it, why is there any need to play it? It exists as soon as you hear it.
Interviewer: You "hear" it metaphorically - not the way you hear my voice. I often "hear" music that I can't express, or play, on the piano.
Cecil: Isn't it enough that it exists in you head?
Interviewer: No, it's frustrating in fact.

Damn frustrating in fact. Anyway, this was the first thing I read out of my new birthday present book, Reading Jazz, which looks to be a reference for further jazz (and possibly life) insights.
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