May 16ths

5/16/1966

A long (2:30P - 130A) day ‘Taxman’ received its final ingredient (the “One, two, three, four intro) then mixed into mono, with Paul vocal overdub on ‘For No One’. On location at Chiswick House to film promo clips for ‘Paperback Writer’ and Rain’. At EMI working between 11.00 am and 12.30 pm, first set of stereo mixes and edits since sessions for Revolver began.

5/16/2005            
       
New neologisms: Anodine: to dine on comfort foods, Anodiner: a comfort food Diner.   

5/16/2010

Bass lesson: arpeggios on dominant 7th chords (D7). Lessons are practice as well.

Watched film, Tarantino's remake (sort of ) of Inglorious Bastards. His films are always winking at you—that they are making reference to some other film. Lots of long boring parts, but lots of cheap shots at Nazis—a crowd favorite.   

[5/16/2025: What a difference 15 years makes].

5/16/2011            

Inauguration of Rahm Emanuel at Millennium Park. From a mayor of the silent generation to a Boomer. What is the future of Chicago post-Daley?

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In my experience, AI is only marginally useful in the humanities. I can’t imagine it would be so pervasive that it would change thousands of years of human history, as well as the human universals used for art-making. In fact, if AI ran on a foundation of human universals, it would be attempting to make art based on them. They would be “nice tries”.  

[5/16/2024: I still think this way 13 years later. There was an article in the NYT yesterday about the diminishing returns of AI. Until the point where its usefulness blends into the wallpaper of everyday life, it will remain in an uncanny valley.]

[5/16/2025: What a difference a year makes. But I still think it will never be able to do things you really want to do. The danger is that we will become indifferent to those things because we settle for mediocrity].