A Building Roam

Inside the Sagrada Familia For over a week, I have devoted the bulk of my free time to completing my essay on James Joyce and Salvador Da...

" De la musique avant toute chose ..." ("Music before anything else") - Paul Verlaine, Art Poétique I'd like to ...

For the last 2 or 3 weeks I've found myself listening almost exclusively to Madlib's Mind Fusion series, a pretty rare set of cd...

Reviewing the three baseball books that have occupied my mind the last couple months. Baseball Prospectus 2011 I never really thought ab...

The Beckman Auditorium at Caltech in Pasadena The preliminary version of the academic program for the upcoming James Joyce Conference ha...

Here's a little lyric I wrote up while watching the exciting ending to last night's Tigers-Indians ballgame . In the top of the 13t...

This started out as a long response in the comments section of this recent post , but it immediately became worthy of its own post. I rea...

Any producer who incorporates samples of Alan Watts is cool in my book.

The baseball season is barely one-tenth of the way through, still far too early to make any solid judgments but there's been plenty of i...

I'm going to be experimenting with some new title banners atop the blog to try and liven things up a little bit and take this blog to t...

It was through Madlib and his cosmic experimental jazz that I first heard of Sun Ra and now I'm finally starting to get into Ra's ...