October 25ths
10/25/1914, Sunday
Wittgenstein receives “suspicious” news that Paris had fallen. He felt pleased at first then realized it sounded absurd. (“Such incredible news is always a bad sign”.) Thinks they were under gunfire from Russians, but was just an airplane. Spends the night in Tarnobrzeg then tomorrow morning to Szczucin.
[10/25/2024: 90 years later, perhaps on the brink of another World War, the fog of it will be a different kind of fog. We are experiencing it now because the pillars of journalism as we once knew them have collapsed. There’s a continuous cognitive dissonance between what you hear or read in one place, and an alternate universe in another. (Feeling pleased at first, then realizing it sounded absurd.) Whenever I walk past the Tribune Tower, now converted into luxury residences, I think about that collapse. I was also there when it was being "renovated" (2019)]
10/25/2005
World Series—Sox 3/0 to Astros (14 innings)
Title: “Swipe Out”
[Eventually released on Frontiers in 2022. Sometimes ideas, even title ideas, can hibernate for 17 years, like a cicada. It was a riff on The Surfari’s Wipe Out.]
Lyric snip: I go through life pretending to care.
[Became a Songday in 2024].
Pretending To Care (10-9-2021) by meta4s
10/25/2007
Studio: Tracks on “Dark Park” based on photo of the same title (2004).
[Used for Photographs For Music. It's another example of how I "continue" or "extend" existing works, as a CONTINUA-TION].
10/25/2023
Apparently, Barenboim has staged a concert by his academy orchestra of Israelis and Palestinians. Is it naive to think music of the enlightenment is anodyne for this conflict? They're playing all Beethoven...
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