June 10ths

6/10/1886

(AI-Generated)

Brennan says his cousin fled to Milwaukee after the arrests. Fear spreads through the neighborhoods like cholera. Young Michael asks why the police carry so many clubs now. How does one explain the world's complications to a five-year-old? I tell him they're keeping everyone safe. The lie tastes bitter. [Source]  

6/10/1907 (Paris)

(Kessler Diary)

Chat with Maurice Denis about possible revolution in France—that it wasn’t a revolution per se but rather a “change in ownership”. Also talked about the Russian Revolution and barbarism of classes attempting to seize power and how French kings made French culture. Rouart: “as soon as a class begins to get a little culture, one smashes them. The opposite in England.” 

6/10/2002

Stormy all day. Rented some DVDs (Mystery Train, Ma Vie En Rose) and the lights went out right when the Japanese girl said, “Hello, Goodnight.”

[A Songday generation form this entry, The biggest challenge with any idea fragment is extrapolation. How do you go from a ditty to a song--or are there just short singles now?]

 6/10/2005

Article in Tribune about Japan’s criticism of China’s history texts. Sometimes books and films about history say more about history than history itself. Recording history is like remembering a dream: fragments stitched together into a narrative.

Interesting: Physical media for music have constraints built right in; for example, vinyl (45-60 minutes), the CD (60-75), the 45 (8 minutes both sides). On Floyd’s Dark Side they were thinking “we need five more minutes”. When the medium is a sound file there are virtually no duration constraints. How does it affect the content and ideas about content?            

Titles: “Inner Pieces”, “The Dark Cloud of Democracy” 

Interview with Rob Halford on Fresh Air. I liked what he said about how what you wear determines identity and motivation to succeed, in his case, leather. “I got dressed and started screaming.” Metal lyrics are pretty meaningless, although they work with the music to contextualize the overall impact of the work—sometimes lyrics are just another sound, something to fill the “lyric” space. If they weren’t there, one would wonder where they were). He said his favorite book was the Thesaurus, then I suspected that the lyrics were just a background aspect.

[6/10/2025: If you write lyrics as you would poetry, then meaning is everything. But if they are being laid over existing music they are essentially singable sounds. Any meaning that might emerge can be meaningful as well. They are like the after-image effect: In the Hermann Grid Illusion, the dots at the intersections are a side-effect of perception. Also, if you generate music with AI to your lyrics it's essentially a "knockoff" as in the fashion world. I would imagine that songwriters now run their lyrics through a generator to see what happens].

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6/10/2023

Interesting: There’s more information in images than text. Color is the least disruptive choice descriptor. It is possible to recover from sequential paralysis and return to the creative flow through visual means, such as looking at an image.            
      
The Unabomber died. My Movin’ To Montana was based on him, and the idea that Montana was the “loner” state, or for the state where dental floss tycoons based their operations. Apparently, his cabin is now an art installation.    

The origin of Hobson-Jobson: From the Arabic lament “hasan husayn” misspoken by British as Hossy Gossy or Hossein Jossen, then settled on Hobson-Jobson. Hobson and Jobson were actually two clown characters in Victorian literature. English buckaroo and cockroach are the results of Hobson-Jobson, coming from Spanish vaquero and cucaracha.