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	<title>AHB&#039;s Teenage Kicks</title>
	<link>http://ahb.brassland.org</link>
	<description>Thoughts, photos &#38; commentary from Alec Hanley Bemis</description>
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		<title>Maurice</title>
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This picture appears in the fresh issue of The New Yorker. It&#8217;s Maurice Sendak in his backyard wearing a bathrobe, taken by Mariana Cook in 2005. I assume she&#8217;d be cool with me sharing it, just as I&#8217;m relatively sure the magazine&#8217;s owners might not be. So let&#8217;s willfully misread copyright law for a second [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahb.brassland.org/2012/05/16/maurice/</link>
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		<title>Deep thoughts on recorded music, concert music &amp; silence</title>
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John Cage. Carlos Castaneda. The effects of recorded music. These are things I think about. And apparently, these are things that author and professor  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi was thinking about in 1990 when he published his book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. i.e.
Some people argue that technological advances have greatly improved the quality of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahb.brassland.org/2012/05/08/flow/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;strictly necessary for their own consumption&#8221;: some deep thoughts on art &amp; money</title>
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So this happened. In a spiritual sense it was a very unimportant thing. From the point of view of things with meaning, it had little. But often such things are what makes the world go round.
So, also: There&#8217;s a big art fair in New York this weekend. Here are some coherent thoughts about it. Sadly, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahb.brassland.org/2012/05/04/art-and-money/</link>
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		<title>Tribute to The Band &amp; Levon Helm (RIP 1940-2012)</title>
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Today Levon Helm died. Some of my friends have been Twittering about it. Multiple times.
This is big news. He was the integral member of The Band, the only true American citizen in it, and the only one whose latter-day career hewed most closely to their greatness. The Band were a huge deal; their recorded legacy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahb.brassland.org/2012/04/19/levon-helm/</link>
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		<title>As a civilian</title>
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There are many risks to a life in the arts. The one that bothers me most is how entertainment can become work. It&#8217;s a very different experience to go to a concert hoping to take flight, and to merely attend a concert with an eye toward networking, and a sense that the machinery behind the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Farmer&#8217;s executive priviledge &amp; the peculiar nature of &#8220;a calling&#8221;</title>
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Awhile back I read Tracy Kidder&#8217;s excellent Mountains Beyond Mountains, an inspiring portrait of physician Paul Farmer&#8217;s work in the area of public health, specifically the pioneering work he&#8217;s done in Haiti. FYI, I was not inspired to read it by the Arcade Fire&#8217;s charitable giving to the cause, though it&#8217;s easy to see, in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahb.brassland.org/2012/04/03/paul-farmer/</link>
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		<title>Internet architecture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, I&#8217;m not talking about packet switching, IP addresses and proxy servers. What I meant is internet-era architecture. I&#8217;m talking about this:

These days people believe anything you dream is possible right now &#8212; that niche audiences deserve to be served &#8212; and that what can be done should be done. I&#8217;m reminded of the quote [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahb.brassland.org/2012/03/29/internet-architecture/</link>
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		<title>The internet wasteland &amp; a museum to ephemeral feeling</title>
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The internet deserves to be treated like a wasteland. I am not referring to T. S. Eliot, mind you &#8212; more like Cormac McCarthy&#8217;s The Road, Denis Johnson&#8217;s Fiskadoro or, fuck it, Mad Max.

Hell, maybe the internet deserves an even madder Max.

We live in a world which (if the consistently apocalyptic tone of most media [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahb.brassland.org/2012/03/26/tumblr/</link>
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		<title>Music is a universal language</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have&#8230;mIxeD FeeLINngS about the TED or TED-like format. As one commenter noted about the presenter in the video I&#8217;m about to show you: &#8220;This﻿ guy is just stroking his psychological egoism on stage.&#8221; Indeed, that&#8217;s a criticism that can be levied against many of the presenters at these things. Ego is death, and too [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahb.brassland.org/2012/02/22/paraorchestra/</link>
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		<title>Authenticity, alter egos and Bon Iver: a short attention span essay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I find Bon Iver&#8217;s records eminently listenable. But I also find they lack some unnameable quantity of soul. Or maybe the better way to put it is that they intentionally emulate (or aspire to capture) the most soulful bits of a soulless era for popular music, the 1980s. At the time, increasingly digital-sounding music was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahb.brassland.org/2012/02/11/boniver/</link>
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