January 23rds

1/23/1998

Unabomber pleads guilty—life in prison without parole. What will they do with his little cabin? 

[The cabin was made into an installation/conceptual piece by artist Richard Barnes].   

1/23/1999

Spilled a glass of water on this diary, disaster!!

At studio: played new scratch piano part on Smooth Blue Lake. I'm still attached to the old version that had that floating feel to it, but I can't find a way to adapt it to the song form. songs need room so the lyrics can breathe.

Diagram: the strata of human thought.

The strata of human thought or its stratigraphy from the Cyberworld (hegemony) at the top layer (Detachment, "at one" with the crowd, no individuality, no critical thinking, groupthink, part of the machine, the individual is completely dissolved in the group) interpolated with reality (self-actualization, individuation, humanism0

 

 

 

 

 

 

[1/23/2025: At the dawn of the web I was seeing how it could change our collective psyche, and that we would live in the slippage between human and machine].

[1/23/2026: The AI-generated version based on a prompt. This is actually an inversion of the idea that enlightenment is at the top, or is the "penthouse", but you can use the "roots" metaphor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1/23/2001

Watched another episode of Ken Burns “Jazz “series. You wonder how accurate it is. Interesting: Bebop was seen as this brilliant invention and musicians were excited about its endless possibilities. But it was seen as elitist and too arty. Wynton Marsalis: You have to go to art, it should not have to come to you.” There’s a philosophical debate! (Jazz as a science) 

Dolly Parton: “I look so artificial but I'm so totally real.”