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I took the RPM Challenge and finished an album in February.

See this directory for easy download of all the MP3s.

Here are extended liner notes from my RPM Challenge Page:

This is the most ancient story from my fictional home galaxy. It tells how Qaec (which means “Boy Genius” in Maec) was raised to be a brilliant scientist, who discovered a whole new and more accurate way to understand the world, from the inside.

I want finding my songs to be as easy as possible. So here's everything I've posted so far, in one place (15 files total): If you just see a few files, then click topic title to see full list.

These are free high-quality MP3s, suitable for importing into iTunes or most media players. Just download, then import them.

Glass Remembers (Live)
Turtles All The Way Down
StreetBuddhism

The internet is a wonderful place to speculate on the nature of the universe, and what's wrong with physics, or science, or any rigorous discipline. In short, there are a lot of "minority reports" on how the world works. Many are, to be kind, wacky. Many others are misconceived, or deliberately slanted. A precious few are simply brilliant.

afmayer.net will link you to his http://www.jaypritzker.org/. http://qgrav.org/ will take you directly to his latest papers. His full book is pending. He has taken out of circulation a lot of his earliest materiel that drew me to his work, but I respect the progress he has made in simplifying the real kernel of existence in mathematical terms.

Sad but true, the Baggot Inn is gone, but not forgotten. Here's a video of a Jam a few months before the final demise. I was at the Baggot Inn around 4 years, hosting the jam at least 3. It was an honor and a privilege to be there, meet so many talented musicians, and get to jam with quite a few, either playing with their two songs, or at the pre or post jams which really brought the community together.

In the chicken and Egg world, Emptiness must come first, before anything else, because the emptiness makes the after possible. It sets up the potential for difference between before and after.

Emptiness has a twofold nature. Like Buber's "I and Thou" like the Quantum "wave particle duality", there is a dual nature to emptiness. From the Heart Sutra, "Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form". In grammar, There is the noun "Emptiness". and a verb form "Emptying" or "To Empty"

Emptying is what happens in order to have room for energy states, within pockets of time and space created by the emptying, which decays through states in sequence, before reaching emptiness again.

When you are obsessed by something you are ready to throw your life into, or from another perspective, throw your life away on...you have to be pretty sure you are doing the right thing.

And so I struggle to define an emotional calculus. How to calculate how I feel now, and how those feelings will change, as I do things about them.

This is a challenging science, since how one feels now about how one will feel in the future leads to actions, which may not turn out to be accurate once the future arrives. Sometimes drastic actions.

Check out this video, I'm playing percussion for Mess, who frequents the Open mics between Bleeker and 3rd St, Sullivan and Thompson. This was taken March 31st 2008, at the Back Fence, at the corner of Thompson and Bleeker.

I put the Music is quotes in the title, because as it has been and as we use that term, it's been more industry than music.

KH, my total favorite songwriter of all time has helped put together a system that just may work. Check her blog at cashmusic.org You can download, you can pay what you want, you can subscribe.

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With my new interest in the Hanuman Chalisa, I've started looking for other sanskrit scriptures which are traditionally chanted, and ran into the Heart Sutra. Here is a You Tube slideshow including the words as they are chanted.

The wisdom of the Heart Sutra is boundless, because it focuses on the intense infinite overriding power of emptiness to shape the universe, and the incredibly creative ways nothing has figured ways of acting by borrowing either space or time from the other. Forms of emptiness.