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)

Hurricane Wilma swipes Florida. They have run out of names, and are using Alpha, Beta...

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...

10/25/2046

(Tony Townes Diary)

Brain scan/data capture Dr. Licardi. He said the power surges wiped some of the data, but the data may show some concussed areas. He tells me to stop sparring.

Tithonus rehearsal then stopped to see Neone. She’s over 5 months since her DOI. She doesn’t look a day over 23. She’ll be hearing that her entire life.