The man who missed the moonlight
The moonlight is lovely tonight.
But I didn’t mean to write about this; my intention was to talk about a man who missed the moonlight.
(What...
Charles Bukowski: “It’s the only good fight there is”
Don’t try.
Written on Charles Bukowski’s gravestone.
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I write this on the occasion of the birthday of Charles Bukowski, but it is not his biography. Only...
Charlie Parker’s ornithology
Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie writes a phrase of «Be-Bop» music on the blackboard in New York, May 1, 1947. (AP Photo)
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“It's just music. It's playing...
Where does the art go when it dies? To the museums
“It seems that the critics that prophesy the decline of civilization, they often presuppose that civilization is something fragile, preserved only thanks to the...
Music is life
“The only truth is music” – Jack Kerouac
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As neither the enjoyment nor the capacity of producing musical notes are faculties of the least use...
Daniel Day-Lewis’ insane approach
I saw him for the first time in “My Left Foot”. A man condemned by fate and society to remain a trash, an effluvium...
