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Ethics Cartoon

May 3, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Here’s an old comic from Andrew Lin of the Wasted Words podcast. More of his cartoons are here.

Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 18

May 2, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

…Almost done polishing the turd that is this old demo. Here’s a Pink Floyd-y song of mine called “To Valerie,” written for a girl by that name in my second month or so of college (fall of ’89). I believe it was elicited when I went to knock on her dorm room and a male voice said “Go away!” so Continue Reading …

One-Star Ratings, Revisited (Solicitation for iTunes ratings)

April 30, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

I recently blogged about the glory of goobers posting one-star reviews of things. Well, we got our own first one-star iTunes rating, though, alas, with no accompanying review. Now, I had thought that this was actually a good thing, that we were finally getting big enough that hostile people were actually getting tuned into us, i.e. no one bothers to Continue Reading …

Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 17

April 22, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

This week I give you an entire album from my murky past: “So Chewy” by the MayTricks (no, that movie had not come out when this band existed, so that name isn’t as awful as it seems, though it’s not so good, I think; any band name you have to spell for people is bad news). It was recorded in Continue Reading …

Episode 18: Plato: What Is Knowledge? (Citizens Only)

April 20, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

Discussing Plato’s Theatetus and Meno. In the Theaetetus, Plato considers and rejects a series of mostly very lame conceptions of knowledge and replaces them at the end with… NOTHING. In the Meno, knowledge is “remembrance” (maybe).”

End song: “Obvious Boy,” by Mark Lint and the Fake from So Whaddaya Think? (2000).

PREVIEW-Episode 18: Plato: What Is Knowledge?

April 20, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 14 Comments

Discussing Plato’s Theatetus and Meno. In the Theaetetus, Plato considers and rejects a series of mostly very lame conceptions of knowledge and replaces them at the end with… NOTHING. In the Meno, knowledge is “remembrance” (maybe).”

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Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 16

April 16, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Yes, another song not written by me, from the same 1991 demo as the last two weeks’ entries: “Wild Flower.” However, I did play this 40 million times and wrote the swell bass line and contributed to the somewhat out-of-tune backing vocals. The performance is actually pretty darn good, and the recording was only left off of the eventual album Continue Reading …

Danto Listened to Us!

April 13, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 14 Comments

On Episode 16, we discussed some work by Arthur Danto and joked that he would certainly never listen to us. Well, I sent him a link to the episode via Facebook, and he not only listened that day to it, but put the link on his page, complimented us there to his many friends, and said it was OK for Continue Reading …

Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 15

April 10, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Here’s “Wasted Youth,” a song by Steve Petrinko, also (like week 14) from the MayTricks 1991 EP, which I’m retroactively calling the “Happy Flowers EP,” as “Happy Flowers” was to be the name of the album that we started recording with this lineup shortly after making this demo (at least according to my decision; I don’t know that the band Continue Reading …

Ripping the Classics

April 7, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

An amusing article by Jeanette DeMain on Salon.com about Amazon one-star reviews of classic books caught my eye. Its thesis is that for every book our culture (or likely, you in particular) finds great, there’s likely a horrific review of it posted. Now, of course many of these reviews are by semi-literate anti-intellectual assholes. Still, I think that history and Continue Reading …

Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 14

April 2, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 3 Comments

One of my heretofore unmentioned projects for this blog is digitizing and mixing the original, 1991 5-song demo from my college band The MayTricks, so here’s the first tune: “Run Away.” I’ve also posted an mp3 of the eventual 1993 album version of the tune for comparison. I like the demo better, I think, though the album version has its Continue Reading …

Episode 17: Hume’s Empiricism: What Can We Know? (Citizens Only)

March 29, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 4 Comments

David Hume

On David Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748). Hume thinks that all we can know are our own impressions, but that no experience shows us one event causing another event. So, causality must just be regular patterns of conjoined events.

End song: “Twitch” by The MayTricks, from Happy Songs Will Bring You Down (1994).

PREVIEW-Episode 17: Hume’s Empiricism: What Can We Know?

March 29, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 25 Comments

David Hume

On David Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748). Hume thinks that all we can know are our own impressions, but that no experience shows us one event causing another event. So, causality must just be regular patterns of conjoined events.

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Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 13

March 24, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

In honor of the death of one of my biggest musical influences, Alex Chilton, here’s me from the summer of ’94 performing his Big Star song “The Ballad of El Goodo” in an Ann Arbor coffee house. I’ve digitized it and done my best here with a heap of processing to mitigate the fact that the guitar was recorded too Continue Reading …

Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 12

March 19, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Not music, this time, but music commentary (sort of), a philosophy of music, if you will: “On Music Appreciation.” One of the tasks of this weekly routine is to digitize old cassettes, and this is a bit of “Mark’s Diary” from 1978-79, so I believe I was in 3rd grade at the time. I’ve edited it so as to keep Continue Reading …

Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 11

March 10, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Another for the same album: “Not Too Late.” I added the vocals, acoustic, bass, percussion, and the big distorted background guitar all in the last couple of days, after not working on this since 2000. Written in late ’98 as my time in philosophy grad school was ending. Even as I entered grad school, I had a fatalistic “Nothing is Continue Reading …

Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 10

March 6, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

Another tune destined for the Mark Lint & the Simulacra album: “Night Before the End.” If you’ve listened to the podcast ep. 16, you’ve heard that Seth thinks that it’s boring when musicians interpret songs for you, so I won’t to that, and leave you merely to wonder what it would mean to be “bold enough to bend” and “cold Continue Reading …

PEL is now on Twitter (+ other ways to share)

March 5, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

If you’d like to have links to our postings sent to you via Twitter, you can now do that; follow us at http://twitter.com/PartiallyExLife. If you re-Tweet our episode posts to the millions of Twitter followers you undoubtably have, then you’ll have our eternal gratitude. While I’m on the subject of spreading the word, why don’t you scroll ALL the way Continue Reading …

Episode 16: Danto on Art (Citizens Only)

March 4, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

Discussing three essays by Arthur Danto from The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art (1986): the title essay, “The Appreciation and Interpretation of Works of Art,” and “The End of Art.” I understand you may not have heard of Danto, and you may think modern art is goofy, but you’ll definitely enjoy this discussion and the reading anyway. Note that Danto listened to this episode and liked it.

End song: “This Night Before the End” by Mark Lint and the Simulacra.

PREVIEW-Episode 16: Danto on Art

March 4, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 58 Comments

Discussing three essays by Arthur Danto from The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art (1986): the title essay, “The Appreciation and Interpretation of Works of Art,” and “The End of Art.” I understand you may not have heard of Danto, and you may think modern art is goofy, but you’ll definitely enjoy this discussion and the reading anyway. Note that Danto listened to this episode and liked it.

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