Sometimes I Write Stuff That

Why Not Invest In The Future Of Music, Instead Of Building Fortresses To Preserve Its Past?

The Very Best [infographics] Engender And Facilitate An Insight By Visual Means - Allow Us To Grasp Some Relationship Quickly And Easily That Otherwise Would Take Many Pages And Illustrations And Tables To Convey. Insight Seems To Happen Most Often When Data Sets Are Crossed In The Design Of The Piece - When We Can Quickly See The Effects On Something Over Time, For Example, Or View How Factors Like Income, Race, Geography, Or Diet Might Affect Other Data. When That Happens, There's An Instant "aha!".

Music Is Relegated To An Underground, Relatively Obscure Group Of Listeners. It's Partly Because Of The Nature Of The Medium. With A Piece Of Visual Art, You Can Look At Something Ugly, Brutal And In Your Face, But It's Kind Of - There It Is. It Doesn't Take You Over In The Same Way That Putting On The Music At A Certain Volume Does.

Living "in" A Story, Being Part Of A Narrative, Is Much More Satisfying Than Living Without One. I Don't Always Know What Narrative It Is, Because I'm Living My Life And Not Always Reflecting On It, But As I Edit These Pages I Am Aware That I Have An Urge To See My Sometimes Random Wandering As Having A Plot, A Purpose Guided By Some Underlying Story.

I Couldn't Take Pictures Of Green Rolling Hills.