January 7ths
1/7/2001
Interesting experiment conducted in school children in India: They found that within 10 minutes they knew what they were doing, even though they never saw a computer before; They taught themselves in groups without assistance; Icons are not necessary cross-cultural; Like music and art, you can find your way through it without being taught anything; Content is ubiquitous–the teacher is not the repository of content; Let the student make the learning agenda and the teacher makes the connection with the theoretical; There has to be a reason to do something before learning it.
1/7/2008
1/7/2023
It’s interesting how both artists and musicians who grew up in the 60s and 70s are still doing the same things that they were doing as they’ve aged and it takes a little bit of negotiation both with yourself and the public to kind of pull that off. But I’m not in a position where I want to give up any of that. I suppose when you’re 95 and playing a Les Paul there might be some optics in that you’ll have to consider, but of course blues guitarists even played Flying-Vs (Albert King) when they were elderly.
1/7/2024
I needed a third space to get away from the mixing and mastering grind so I went to the library and read some of the Geddy Lee memoir. It’s interesting to revisit the former you while you’re reading the memories of someone you admired in your teens. As I can’t remember how I played music in 1978, I’m another person reading a book by a person who I thought I knew. This is a testament to how a person can have many facets to their personality, and memoirs typically demonstrate how they are or aren’t about the integrity of a person. (You can have integrity even if the parts don’t seem to fit together. It’s not your fault things change). As he sang in one of the Rush songs, “Plus ca change....”, and of course, “They call me the workin’ man” because that’s what I think he is essentially and less of an “artiste” kind of a guy, although he was somewhat of a dilettante/aesthete once in his 30s.
1/7/2025
Peter Yarrow died at 86. Watched 2006 interview about Dylan’s going electric. There are lots of details we didn’t know. If it wasn’t for YouTube (2006—when it started) we wouldn’t have this history. We all know what a firestorm it created but it has lots more “spot fires”.
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At any point in your life you can stop, start, or re-start things. Re-starting is the best option because it infuses youth into old age. But even if you were doing more sophisticated things when you were 21, those sophisticated things have a blithe spirit in them. Always do old and new things simultaneously, like using AI in music and also scoring manually. Robert Fripp will always have Guitar Craft and mysticism.
1/7/2026
Since I haven't done that much traveling compared to other people who have gone everywhere, I'm not always looking forward to the next country to go to. What I look forward to is the project after the current project. I recall an interview with Dick Van Dyke when he was well into his 90s and he said that what motivated him in life was looking forward to the next project. When you become old, if you've traveled a lot, you probably will have a lot of memories. But I think it's more interesting to me to revisit things that I did in the past and also look forward to the next projects that I'm thinking about doing.
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Apparently the woman that was shot in Minneapolis was a poet. I should set some of her poetry to music, or make some art for them. It's a way of laying flowers and paying respect. [A poet (probably a HSP) trying to run over someone with her car?! Shrieking cognitive dissonance].
1/7/2047
(Anthony Townes Diary)
Apparently a terrible fire broke out in the Favela. At least 100 dead. I have very faint memories of going there, and I’m wondering why a few days ago I was dreaming about the 20th century band Van Halen. There were screens covering the Favela on every surface and there was someone that was “scoring” it as if it were a film.
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