November 2005
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The Connotations Of Words
The connotations of words in a language are so rich and so seemingly unattainable for a foreigner. Like the harmony of the spheres, there is a music to the way words relate in Spanish that I only barely hear and whose beauty I can only imagine — forever present, forever denied me.
Disrespect For Simplicity
One of the major problems everyone has, but especially found in young artists, is a lack of respect for simplicity. Simplicity’s complexity is not perceived: simplicity is beguiling because, in truth, there is no such thing as true simplicity in the arts. In writing, simplicity is used to refer to writers who use a smaller [...]
Together
Have we considered the etymology of “together” and that it must come from “gather”? I had never before thought of this until thinking how many different words we have in English that are mostly all rendered in Spanish using the word “unirse”. How opaque our own language has become to us that even our simplest [...]
The Nonsensical Opposition Fallacy
In so many sorts of arguments, one finds the same mistake made, a mistake I would call the nonsensical opposition fallacy. The mistake is simple to describe: one sets up an opposition between things that really do not differ and then, by exaggerating this difference, one finds justifications for all sorts of things. In discussions [...]
Palanhiuk
I read some of Invisible Monsters today. It was not as awful as I thought it would be, though I do not find it especially beautiful writing. It is not writing with a careful attention to the thousand nuances of language. For example, Palanchiuk’s writing has no cadence — though that is not to say [...]
Real Love Lasts Forever
Real love lasts forever.1 What cruel and false words. Do we really need to degrade our experiences to console ourselves for their loss? Do we need to make everything we do not have seem without value so that we can forget that it is lost? A friend’s away message.↩
We Or Two I’s
An article from MSN describing how one knows that a relationship is going well. I don’t agree with the following argument from the article above at all. You think in “we” terms even when the going gets tough Sooner or later, all couples start transitioning from “Hey, what are you doing Saturday night?” to “Hey, [...]
Centers Of Feeling
What experiences life affords us drummers! I have watched my feeling of physical focus go from my feet to my hands in the last few years. By focus, I mean to describe the area in my body which the other areas of the body follow, the area that keeps time properly as a lead for [...]
News Coats Of Paint
New coats of paint will not reacquiant broken hearts to broken homes.1 Dashboard Confessional : The Swiss Army Romance : Turpentine Chaser↩
They’ll Get A War
If they want a war, they’ll get a war.1 With Honor : Heart Means Everything : More Than Heroes↩