December 10ths (Some December)

12/10/1960, Saturday

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Lennon goes on long train journey back to Liverpool from Hamburg with his amp strapped to his back in case someone tried to steal it. Stuart went into temporary hiding with his girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr. She took pics of the Beatles at the Heiligengeistfeld ( Holy Ghost field) fairground in central Hamburg.

12/10/1999

While browsing music books at library on "the fine points of practicing lyric writing", etc., I thought, “Who cares about this anymore?” (I still do) 

On the new wave of “collaborative filtering”: If we always find what we’ve always liked, doesn’t that put constraints on discovery?

[12/10/2024: I’m doing more lyric writing now with the AI experiments. What I think is coming next are algorithms that define the music we make by putting certain things at the top of the feed, obscuring everything else. Imagine that algorithms followed everything you glanced at or observed, and gave you more of that, when in fact it didn’t really mean much to you at the time. (“The organic is superior to the synthetic, as the former adapts on its own conditions.")] 

12/10/2005

Dynaxiom: The organic is superior to the synthetic, as the former adapts on its own conditions.    

12/10/2021

Michael Nesmith died at 78. I’m still nostalgic for that LA-Country sound...Train of huge tornadoes swipes across 4 states. Some of the tornadoes were on the ground for hours, traveling almost 200 miles. 

Some December as originally written]    

[An AI-generated version that is moody and shoegazy]