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A page from Gaspar Sanz's guide to playing the guitar, Instrucción de música sobre la guitarra española, y método de sus primeros rudimentos, hasta tanerla con destreza (Zaragoza, 1697) #baroque #musichistory #earlymodern

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Saw/heard Mahler's 3rd for the first time in concert, and I can't think of any music that goes from the tiniest sound to the greatest bombast, and absolutely the highest and lowest sounds the ear can hear in a way that has to be heard live. Ends with this banger: youtu.be/sA7BPdZgxGk?...

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Trump was all c'monnn I'm just a little guy, and it's my birthday too, I'm a little birthday boy

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Now's the time to appropriate "We Can't Stop" as the liberation anthem it was made to be.

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The squeaking is what elevates it to art.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

nobody in attendance for a tank show in Washington? Is this a military parade or the last 4 months of the Wizards’ season????

submitted 2 days ago • 62 comments

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

submitted 2 days ago • 674 comments

Crucial information from my pal Erik. Trump’s parade is full of alarming significance in its specifics. #NoKings

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Chip Taylor: wrote Wild Thing, wrote Angel of the Morning, and now has a charming concept album, Son of a Golf Pro: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nqT...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

this is so amazing

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

We’ll need some of these fundraisers here soon: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sec...

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On this date: June 12, 1964. The infamous Rolling Stones show at Danceland; their first Minnesota appearance. Here is the thorough recap from Twin Cities Music Highlights.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Part of what feels so urgent with Mountainhead is its plot hinging on mass civil disorder from deepfake videos and two competing tech companies, one who makes them perfectly and one that could detect them.

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It must be nice to be so confident this could never happen to them.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

Just found this cover of "Biko" by Paul Simon, who pretty much never covers his contemporaries. Also a reminder that we shouldn't just look at 1930s/40s Germany for parallels, but 70s/80s South Africa. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXnb...

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Everyone I knew who covered disinformation got laid off, their bosses got bullied into firing them, or they changed their beats from actual Nazi harassment campaigns. It cannot be stressed the damage the paid-for Substack “free speech” guys did in the service of fascism and against real free speech.

submitted 4 days ago • 105 comments

Still better than the reception you get at Ford's Theater.

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Every major Dem politician needs to realize that, in this environment, they can schedule a "speech to the nation," like Newsom did, and get tons of media coverage. Just do it.

submitted 5 days ago • 514 comments

Surprised, but I don’t think folks are ready for the severity of visual disinformation on the way in the days ahead.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

As the US Army celebrates it 250th birthday, Trump is celebrating the enemy that tried to defeat it.

submitted 5 days ago • 77 comments

I will say what I have been saying as clearly as I can. We as a country need to collectively prepare for living without a Federal infrastructure. Yes we need to fight to save it, but we also need to prep for a country where it does not exist. I don't think we are ready, and I am afraid about that.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Trump, talking at Fort Bragg right now about Los Angeles, is doing something I'm not sure I've ever seen a president do: he's actively maligning people in Los Angeles — an American city — in front of U.S. troops. And the troops are applauding. As an Army brat myself, this strikes me as very new.

submitted 6 days ago • 402 comments

Back in 1992 I got James Ellroy to sign my copy of WHITE JAZZ and his inscription — “Fear the comedy of the patriarchy on the skids!” — is exactly what we’re experiencing right now. Frightened wanna-be alphas who are lashing out for the lulz.

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

Ruscha, cops, donuts, but it’s more about rewarding the viewer for connecting these than best capturing the moment.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Again, worth waiting for context around what may be a compositionally and aesthetically compelling photo today: www.theguardian.com/world/2020/o...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Time for the dark, nihilistic "CHiPs" reboot.

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With no context, it means nothing. www.theguardian.com/world/2020/o...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Good Night and Good Luck is a good play. Astoundingly, fortuitously resonant. Brilliant to air it on @cnn.com. Directed on live TV by David Cromer better than I’ve ever seen that done. Bravo to one and all.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Suni Lee murals in our neighborhood. The Olympic gold medalist was born in St. Paul.

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Thoroughly enjoying the Good Night and Good Luck livestream.

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Breaking News: Reps Flood (R-NE) and Sorensen (D-IL) to introduce legislation to classify NWS employees as public safety employees like air traffic controllers and FBI agents. www.nbcchicago.com/news/nationa...

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Man it really sucks when someone just takes your government funding away out of nowhere on a whim

submitted 11 days ago • 21 comments

meanwhile,

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

This is a gigantic security problem. Which it obviously has been from the start. Giving these goons unmonitored access to government systems was unbelievably stupid. And now the shit is hitting the fan.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.

submitted 11 days ago • 44 comments

When White House slap-fights spill out into the public and the President starts free-associating to the press, then sitting there next to him, across from the WH toady chorus, there’s now always some foreign head of state with a “Whatever they’re paying me, it’s not enough” look on their face.

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments