Faith Hahn
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“Because over-the-air transmission by broadcast radio stations falls outside the definition of ‘digital audio transmission,’ radio stations do not need to pay royalties to the performers, record labels, or other owners of the sound-recording copyright to publicly perform a sound recording.”
Sacred and
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been yours / completely. | Ninth Elegy, Rilke: https://poetrysociety.org/poems/ninth-elegy
- The young would-be feminists flocking to “WitchTok” for advice on how to conjure love and manifest success are hardly atheists. Neither are the young men of the right who, if not crowding back into traditionalist churches, grope for a spirituality of strength, vitality, and meaning among the aesthetic ruins of ancient warrior cults. These are peopl... See more
from Dark Enchantment | N. S. Lyons by N. S. Lyons
Essays and
- The redemption arc, in clumsy hands, becomes cheesy and unbelievable, offending good taste more often than not. Granted. But literature has, in the past, found ways to handle this sort of plot delicately, and to great effect. After all, the question of how a person changes ought to absolutely possess a novelist – as a matter of philosophical inquir... See more
from The Lost Redemption Arc
RIP Gawker and
- Active for over fifty years, Porphyrios caused great concern for Byzantine seafarers. Emperor Justinian I (r. 527–565) made it an important matter to capture it, though he could not come up with a way to do so.
from Porphyrios (whale)
Anecdotes and
Justice 4 Porphy
- There’s also an almost unbearable sense of intimacy between author and reader — Céline famously said “what interests me is a direct message to the nervous system.” His total reliance on ellipses forecloses the cheap little tricks used to construct the artifice of what we are told is “good” writing: the strategic period, the melodramatic line break,... See more
from In Defense … of the Ellipsis
- Poetry is an essential part of society—but only as itself and not as a vehicle for something else.
from The Integrity of Poetry | Micah Mattix by Micah Mattix
Apropos of nothing.
Musicology and
Thinking about Die Zauberflöte today. Source: https://hermetic.com/godwin/layers-of-meaning-in-the-magic-flute
- Yet what they best represent is the current state of art, where artists must skillfully package themselves as products for buyers to consume.
It’s precisely the kind of work that is uncomfortable for most artists, who by definition concern themselves with what it means to be a person in the world, not what it means to be a brand.from Everybody has to self-promote now. Nobody wants to. by Rebecca Jennings
