1. 05 July 2008

    Playing the Piano for Pleasure

    186 days ago

    A fun read but not much learned. I already practice in mostly the same way this guy delineates, by taking one piece and working it until its perfect and setting it into my (tiny) repertoire.

  2. 02 December 2005

    1132 days ago

    Never Underestimate the Power of Fun

    This is exactly what gets me about college. Play is extracted from work, and play inevitably becomes getting drunk and killing someone tearing down a goal post while celebrating a football victory (yes, thats my school).

    ...play=learning, play=practice, and learning/practice=survival. Play – and laughter – sends a signal to the brain that “this is good, and it matters”, which is why we’re often more likely to remember especially funny things than neutral or annoying things.

    I can’t understand how college makes work and play so irreconcilable. I’m all too close to dropping out, college just doesn’t any sense to me.

    via Kjell Olsen1132 days ago

  3. 22 May 2005

    Rhinocéros

    Eugène Ionesco

    1326 days ago

    An absurdist play written in 1959, addressing the outrageousness of an average persons life on the planet and the societal urge to conform. Interesting, I need to look further into it again. It’s hard to read stuff like this in french.

  4. 10 February 2005

    1427 days ago

    I Like Football (On Sunday Afternoon)

    Coolest thing I’ve seen in a long time:

    A lamp that you can play with as though it were a large beach ball, kicking and shooting it while it lights up the room. Feel like Rivaldo in your own home.

    I play with soccer/footballs in my house all the time, at least until I get yelled at. I try not to break stuff – and how could you possibly with this lamp? And it’s supposed to get played with!

    via Kjell Olsen1427 days ago

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