music clip of the day

keep on dancing

Sometimes I don’t want to listen.

What I want are sounds washing over me.

Theo Parrish, “Summertime Is Here” (originally released 1999; reissued 2006)

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lagniappe

musical thoughts

[W]hat we find in our mind and our thought is the same as what we find in our ear and in sound: an ocean in constant flux. Just as our ear turns out to be nothing but a construct, and likewise sound, neither can we isolate anything we might call our mind or thought, much less our self.

—The Heart Sutra, translation (from Sanskrit) and commentary (from which this is drawn) by Red Pine, AKA Bill Porter (2004)

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reading table

the whining mosquito
also thinks I’m old . . .
edge of my ear

—Kobayashi Issa, 1819 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)