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YouTube video by Janne Mertanen - Topic Six Impromptus, Op. 5: Impromptu, Op. 5: No. 5

#CompleteSibelius Op. 5, kuusi impromptua pianolle (1890-1893). Sibeliuksen pianomusaa ei ilmeisesti pidetä noin universaalisti erityisen suuressa arvossa. Mutta itse taidan diggailla. Onhan tämä numero viisi esimerkiksi aika pysäyttävä 3-minuuttinen.

YouTube video by LeifOveAndsnesVEVO Leif Ove Andsnes - Sibelius: Impromptu Op. 5/6 (Pseudo Video)

No 6 is my favorite. Here is Leif Ove Andsnes
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YouTube video by ringerxo Puck's Speech (Neil Perry - Dead Poets Society)

Puck timeline cleanse:
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A professor once told me that originality is mostly just ignorance of sources

Rose, Gillian Gillian Rose (1947–1995) was a British philosopher and sociologist. She is the author of The Melancholy Science, Paradiso, Mourning Becomes the Law, The Broken Middle; Dialectic of Nihilism, Hegel Con...

Gillian Rose passed away on this day 30 years ago, at age 48.

"[Rose] showed that philosophy could combine a search for the truth with the quest for a meaningful life." - Martin Jay

Twas brillig and the slithy toves / did gyre and gimble in the wabe / all mimsy were the borogoves / and the mome rath outgrabe

In the last week I've forgotten to do two fairly important professional tasks with embarrassing consequences and i really need this semester to be over

For starters, what PhD student is dumb enough to directly plagiarise Agamben's Homo Sacer instead of some obscure journal article that no advisor would recognize?

My response to people dissing LA is always Walt Disney Hall, the LA Phil, and the LA Master Chorale. Put those three things together and you get something pretty spectacular.

Plus you have stolen Dudamel

Mamdani's election may end a solid run of NY mayors being much worse than their LA counterparts. Speaking as a SoCal resident, that is just cause for resentment.

Ursula Vaughan Williams - Vaughan Williams Foundation RVW's second wife was a poet, a writer, the biographer and a vital support to the composer in the years leading to his death. Her generosity paved the way for the creation of the Vaughan Williams…

RVWs' second wife, Ursula, was a poet, writer, biographer and vital support to the composer in the years leading to his death. Her generosity paved the way for the creation of the Vaughan Williams Foundation.

Find out more about her life & work here 👇

It's dire, but many students are skeptical of AI, resentful of the ways it has complicated their college experience, and frustrated by the mixed messages they receive from admin and faculty. Faculty should support students to resist the hollowing out of their education.

Orange is the new blimp

The Carson Goodyear blimp should sue.

Next let's apply this logic to the entire undergrad curriculum. Is this course / dept / program necessary for professional licensure or client / patient health? No? Gone. All of humanities gone. Most social science gone.

Jan-Werner Müller · Caesar wept: Trolling the Libs All post-liberals have at one point or another declared themselves anti-libertarian. Why is it, then, that once in power...

‘Posner and Vermeule argued that “public opinion” would act as the ultimate constraint on a wayward president. That seemed a tad naïve.’

@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on post-liberal political theory.

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Gordon Wood on America as a "Creedal Nation" Open to all Races and Ethnicities Wood is the leading living historian of the American Founding. He pushes back here against those who claim America should be an ethno-nationalist polity.

Eminent historian Gordon Wood's recent address to the American Enterprise Institute is a clear riposte to this kind of reactionary revisionism. Full address printed in WSJ behind a paywall but much of it available here:
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One of my favorites. Watching Brittney Murphy at her most effervescent makes me sad though.

Seeing a production of Arcadia is one of my earliest theatrical memories. Remains one of my favorite plays.

My sarcasm aside, I think we are agreement.

Everyone agrees Taiwan belongs to China except for people who know anything about Taiwan and its history and the majority of Taiwanese in every recent poll on the topic.

1) Roger Casement
2) Pasta and sauce from the bottle

I like Darcies, actually.

They should have just gone for a pee or slipped out to take a very important phonecall.

YouTube video by dnjnyc Joan Baez, "Joe Hill" live at the Woodstock Festival, 1969

Knew and loved this song before i knew who Joe Hill was.
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'We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little we went insane.'

— Francis Ford Coppola on the production of Apocalypse Now

Marriage Story on meth

Not a lawyer but I read the whole of Fitzpatrick's order and man is it a doozy.

Cover of Tracy Chapman's album Tracy Chapman