November 24ths (Hard Drive)

11/24/1872

(Letters of William James)

To Harry James:

On this saintly Sabbath morn I take up my long unwonted pen to make you a report of progress at home ensheathed in other gossip. I sit at your old table facing the Lowell's empty house which has grown to look more tumble down than ever during the absence of the family in the country—(they are still there, old Mrs. L. being sick)—the double sashes just put up in front and a sickly mist-swathed November sunshine pouring through the back window on the right...

[Almost a century into the future, a group of young musicians play these new "electrified" instruments and magically makes a new "sound book"]

11/24/1966

(Beatles Recording Sessions)

"And so the Beatles entered the new phase of their career. No longer the tidy, smiling 'Fab Four', singing boy/girl pop songs on stage. Now they were casually dressed, sometimes mustachioed, smiling-when-they-wanted—be-Beatles who would make the greatest ever batch of rock recordings at and for their merest whim, strictly not for performing on stage. 'Strawberry Fields Forever' captured in one song everything the Beatles had learned in the four years spent inside recording studios, especially 1966, with its backward tapes, its use of vari-speed and its use of uncommon musical instruments. And it could only have been born of a mind (John Lennon's) under the influence of outlawed chemicals. Strawberry Field is a Salvation Army home in Liverpool, round the corner from where John was brought up. He went there for summer fetes. 'Strawberry Fields Forever' evokes those childhood memories through a dreamy, hallucinogenic haze. It was, and still is, one of the greatest pop songs of all time."

11/24/2004

Ed Paschke died. He influenced my "neon" style. He was just an ordinary guy as well, which goes to show you can do weird stuff not have it suffocate your identity.

[11/24/2024. On one of my recent AI music generations, He Got Celebrated, I used 2 Paschke paintings. He’s a fellow Chicagoan–you get celebrated out of hand]. 

11/24/2011

Thanksgiving. Maggie Daley died. She championed the idea of beautification of a city. The Daleys were a large part of my life in Chicago.

11/24/2046

(Tony Townes Diary)

Dad gave me some old hard drives from the 20s with data on them. I can barely open my DU, plus date/time metadata is dodgy. No one gave a shit about future data, and look what happened to history! Glad to have the privilege of going for weekly DU while getting a massage.