Worth Listening
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Worth Listening
Two Discoveries in One: A Child Prodigy Guitarist and a Reincarnation of Prince
“An unbelievable guitarist,” AS said. “A must see/listen.” AS didn’t leave a link, so I googled the name: Taj Farrant. And lots of videos popped up. Yes, he is amazing. And, in fact, he’s just a kid! Here he…
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From Letters Live: The hilarious story of Delmore the cat
Woody Harrelson cannot contain himself when reading a letter written by John Cheever to a Josie Herbst, a fellow writer, about the behavior of a cat whom Herbst had foisted on him before moving to another…
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The Masked Musician
Is she amazing or what? Is all this music coming from just one instrument? Plus, she has beautiful eyes! Is the ever going to take off that mask? Marketing idea: Playing without the mask as a paid upgrade to…
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Hotel California” Played in the Distinctive Style of Stevie Ray Vaughan
This little video had a big effect on me. I’m not sure why it was this one, rather than a thousand similar videos out there in the Metaverse, but it got me contemplating what a microscopically small bubble of…
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Playing Nirvana Blind…
Julliard jazz professor Ulysses Owens Jr. plays drums to Nirvana’s “In Bloom,” a song he’d never heard before, and comes amazingly close to Dave Grohl’s original track. Click here.
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An Amazing Conversation
Listen to this conversation between David Pakman of CNN and Dennis Prager of Prager U. Pakman is a Liberal. Prager is a Conservative. They are discussing some of the hottest issues that are separating Liberals…
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Matt Gaetz Grills Air Force Superintendent Over Gender Diversity Scholarship
This has all the markings of Russian anti-US propaganda. But it turns out to be true. Do you think the Russian military – or the North Korean military, for that matter – have programs like this? Click here.
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Jimmy Buffett’s Final Album
Jimmy Buffett’s posthumous album will be released November 3. Click here to listen to three of the new songs on it.
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Douglas Murray on Tennyson’s “Ulysses
Alfred, Lord Tennyson “Lord Tennyson’s poem lauds the strength of human will ‘to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield,” says Murray. Click here to listen to him talk about its importance… and then read…
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David Foster Wallace’s Legendary Commencement Speech
David Foster Wallace’s Legendary Commencement Speech LC sent this in. “Forgive me if this 23-minute recording is repetitive,” he wrote. “Perhaps you’ve posted about it before. I find it poignant.” David Foster…
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Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for death
Emily Dickinson might be America’s greatest poet. Even better than Walt Whitman or E.A. Poe. At the very least, she is America’s best Metaphysical poet. If you’ve never heard one of her poems recited, this…
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Pop-Up Classical Music Performances
DF, my elder sister, sent an issue of The Marginalia, where Maria Popova included this link to a pop-up performance of Beethoven’s final symphony. Click here. I’ve covered a few of these before. I especially…
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I rise at eleven, I dine about two,
I get drunk before seven, and the next thing I do…” John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester Number Two Son sent the following link to me and my brother, a professor of ancient literature at Princeton. He said, “I…
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Long Ago... I Fell for Her
When The Carpenters were on the charts, I never thought much of them. I saw them as syrupy sweet and sentimental, which was not my teenage thing. But I do remember liking Karen Carpenter’s voice. A few days…
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