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		<title>House Concerts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Year!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi &#8211; I&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brief Interlude to Learn Processing and some other things</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been away again for a while. The main reason is that I am learning some new software and a new graphic/interactive programming language, Processing, in order to better facilitate this new media blog. It is becoming frustrating that I build my interactive animations in commercial software which has a tendency to out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Genius who lived to merge technology and art and people &#8211; you will be missed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>art + science Guest Riff 01</title>
		<link>http://riffingonbooks.com/2011/09/30/artscience-guest-riff-01/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amidst the attention given to the sciences as how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, which are conventionally considered &#34;useless,&#34; will be recognized as the whole reason why we ever try to live longer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the subject of &#8220;new&#8221; writers and wordiness: what author Annie Dillard Had to Say</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a riff I wrote in graduate school a few years ago &#8211; about author Annie Dillard&#8216;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 &#8220;conservative with word count.&#8221; (written in 2009) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>check out seasoned guitarist Bob Saxton (in the back)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(media illustration for previous post) Both great players, but if you concentrate on the actual notes being played . . . Bob Saxton by two heads &#8211; minimum. Wait for Bob&#8217;s (2) solos after Scotty plays his abundance of notes. The brilliance is in Bob&#8217;s choice of notes and phrases. It&#8217;s not how many notes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On being a new (youthful) artist, composer,  musician or writer</title>
		<link>http://riffingonbooks.com/2011/09/11/on-being-a-new-youthful-artist-or-composer-or-musician-or-writer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just re-read Jonathan Safran Foer&#8217;s Everything is Illuminated, and what came to mind this time was a reflection on what it is to be a young artist. I think it was author John Updike whom I saw quoted once remarking about the abundance of words in his first books. Writers seem to take much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Veering off the Modular Mind and the Self for a Bit</title>
		<link>http://riffingonbooks.com/2011/09/05/veering-off-the-modular-mind-and-the-self-for-a-bit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am going to leave the self and neuroscience and the mind for a bit. But I will return to it soon. I have finished the Kurzban book, Why Everyone (else) is a Hypocrite, and have had a pretty strong reaction to it. Although I find his hypothesis about the modularity of the mind fascinating, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Mind Watching and &#8220;The Self&#8221; &#8211; (continued from the previous post)</title>
		<link>http://riffingonbooks.com/2011/07/23/more-mind-watching-and-the-self-continued-from-the-previous-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Writer Virginia Woolf watched her own mind. She had plenty of time to do so as she was sent to bed by doctors who, in the 19th century, prescribed the reverse cure to depression that is more often ordered today: get up and out! be with friends! keep yourself occupied! Woolf, fortunately spent her [...]]]></description>
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