The alternatives are not placid servitude on the one hand and revolt against servitude on the other. There is a third way, chosen by thousands and millions of people every day. It is the way of quietism, of willed obscurity, of inner emigration.
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listening to (and playing) music, and
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See my reading list for what I'm interested in this year.
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🦋 A little fiddle music...
Hm, haven't posted any fiddling in a while. Here is me playing an arrangement of "This land is your land" by Woody Guthrie.
Mountain Station played a song today at the Saturday Afternoon Song Swap in Millburn, and it was a lot of fun. Highlight of the afternoon was (maybe) the song (by a musician whose name I did not catch, rats) based on a Chinese funeral scroll that I need to find out more about.
posted evening of Saturday, February second, 2013 ➳ More posts about Fiddling ➳ More posts about Music ➳ More posts about Mountain Station
The musician was Steve Espinola and his song was based on a scroll from the Dong ba tradition.
