Archive for the ‘Terry’s Reading Travels’ Category
Music as a force for community
Merlin Snider with Pretty Good Acquaintances Goin Down the Road, February 4, 2012 I will post an essay about this performance (and some related books and lectures) next week. I had to spend this week trying out ways to embed my own video – rather that videos from services like YouTube. I still have not [...]
February 12, 2012
Tags: Deborah Snider, Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad, Merlin Snider, social justice, social justice history, social justice music, The Great Depression, Tom Corbett, union history Posted in: Book Riffs, New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary, Terry's Reading Travels 
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House Concerts
When I am not working at the art college where I am employed, or reading and riffing about books, I can usually be found playing music or listening to music. I want to mention a wonderful tradition to all of you, for I have learned many people are unaware of it: house concerts. Many have [...]
January 22, 2012
Tags: Barry Maguire, Bob Dylan, House Concert, John York, the Byrds, Tom Wait, troubadour Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary, Terry's Reading Travels No Comments
A New Year!
Hi – I’m rushing off to my teaching and web/interactive media department management job, but wanted to check in this morning to let you know that I am back. It would be better to announce my holidays before the holidays, I know. My apologies. This holiday I really needed to take some down time from [...]
January 18, 2012
Tags: new media author Terry Bailey, Ry Cooder, Salome Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary, Terry's Reading Travels No Comments
On the subject of “new” writers and wordiness: what author Annie Dillard Had to Say
Here is a riff I wrote in graduate school a few years ago – about author Annie Dillard‘s first book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. In an afterward to the version of the book I read, Ms. Dillard herself talks about the tendency of mature writers to be more “conservative with word count.” (written in 2009) [...]
September 23, 2011
Tags: Annie Dillard, Antioch University, author maturity, John Updike, Jonathan Safran Foer, Marius von Senden, mature author, Maytrees, nature writing, new authors and words, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Pulitzer Prize, Space and Sight, wordiness Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary, Terry's Reading Travels No Comments
Listening to my unconscious: a riff inspired by authors R. Kurzban and J. Lehrer and V. Woolf
In the previous post I gave an example of listening to my unconscious – or what I might call my “key tracking mind app” in that particular case, if I am to draw upon Robert Kurzban’s multiple minds theory (Why Everyone [Else] is a Hypocrite). Another interesting incident of unconscious watching occurred last December. I [...]
July 10, 2011
Tags: author Terry Bailey, brain and creativity, brain app, Carmel, dream, Jonah Lehrer, mind and creativity, mind app, Monterey, new media author Terry Bailey, Pacific Grove, Proust was a Neuroscientist, Robert Kurzban, Salome, seals of Monterey Bay, self, unconscious, unconsious and creativity, Virginia Woolf, Why Everyone Else is a Hypocrite Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary, Terry's Reading Travels No Comments
Back to Proust Was a Neuroscientist – with an intro riff to Kurzban’s Why Everyone (else) is a Hypocrite
I’m writing at a Starbucks in Encino today. Outside. Beautiful day. I love L.A.! Just came from a seminar on Neuroscience and Creativity at UCLA. I’ll have a few comments about that in a later post. I seem to be on a theme roll for a while here with those two topics. I gotta admit, [...]
June 25, 2011
Tags: brain and creativity, creativity, creativity and, Jonah Lehrer, Monterey, Proust was a Neu, Robert Kurzban, Salome, unconscious, Virginia Woolf, walt whitman, Why Everyone Else is a Hypocrite Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary, Terry's Reading Travels No Comments
A night of Latin Jazz, Flamenco, Bossa Nova and my Red Dress song
If my Other Mother, Esther, had not passed away two days before this concert, I would have recorded some of it for you. As it was, it was the best I could do to give a good performance. (I will post some music at a later date.) It helped that I had three awesome musicians [...]
June 18, 2011
Tags: Barry Kohan, bossa nova, Caltech, fingerstyle guitar, Fireside Concert Series, Flamenco, Freeman Dyson, Goh Kurosawa, Hugo Aguayo, Jonah Lehrer, Latin Jazz, Patsy Cline, Proust was a Neuroscientist, Robert Kurzban, Why everyone (else) is a hyocrite Posted in: Book Riffs, New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary, Terry's Reading Travels No Comments
Art Life Continues to Eclipse Book Riffing – for another week or so
I have so many stories to continue now! I will post more images of my Digital Eclectic art show, which runs through June 17 and had its reception last week. I will get back to riffing on Proust Was A Neruoscientist, too. And on to the new books I am reading – by Freeman [...]
May 22, 2011
Tags: Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone, digital art, Digital Eclectic, electronic art, fingerstyle guitar, Fireside Concert Series, Freeman Dyson, Goh Kurosawa, interactive art, Newbury Park, Proust was a Neuroscientist, Terry Bailey Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary, Terry's Reading Travels No Comments
My TEDx Interlude
I mentioned I would be attending a conference this week. It was the TEDx conference at Pasadena’s Caltech. The animation above explains, kind of, why I don’t have a bunch of photos. I could leave it at that, but it is not really true. The fact is that in my haste to get ready for [...]
January 15, 2011
Tags: Adobe Flash, Android, Apple, Caltech TEDx, Feynman, Flash, HTML 5, iPhone, Pasadena, Stephen Hawking, Steve Jobs, TEDx Posted in: New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary, Terry's Reading Travels No Comments
Mozart Riff, Part 2 – The Missing Link
Sorry to be gone for a while. Holiday you know. Above are some shots I took at a beautiful bird sanctuary that my sister and I visited over Thanksgiving break. It is north of Sacramento, where they seem to be doing a wonderful job of bringing back and preserving wetlands. I wish I had brought [...]
December 5, 2010
Tags: Anders Ericsson, creative genius, creativity, Daniel Levitin, genius, John Hayes, Mozart, music, music prodigy, neuroscience and music, This Is Your Brain On Music Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary, Terry's Reading Travels No Comments