June 27ths

6/27/1943, Sunday

My father with Army bud, Buckroe Beach 

 

[6/27/2025: What would he have thought if someone from the future told him that the US might become a dictatorship in the 2020s?]

6/27/1944

(Diary of Anne Frank)

“...In the three weeks since D Day there hasn’t been a day without rain and storms, neither here nor in France, but this bad luck hasn’t kept the British and the Americans from displaying their might....Finland turned down a peace offer some time ago, and now the negotiations have been broken off again.

A short ditty for the entry:

6/27/2024

Per David Bowie, if songs are "canoes", AI music is all the plastic bottles, paper cups and other jetsam floating on the water. It's all manufactured, consumed, and tossed. Some people brand the OEM products with their name or pseudonym in order to sate their hunger for celebrity, just as some people put their name on buildings or other monuments to themselves. 

[6/27/2025: What a difference a year makes. I think AI music activity for real musicians is fine. As Duchamp said, it’s another “department” of creativity. So far it hasn’t diminished my other activities. In photography you can do both the rigorous craft and just taking fun snapshots].