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[jimtzu]

http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/video/notes-neurons-full



Is our response to music hard-wired or culturally determined? Is the reaction to rhythm and melody universal or influenced by environment? Join host John Schaefer, Jamshed Barucha, scientist Daniel Levitin, Professor Lawrence Parsons and musical artist Bobby McFerrin for live performances and cross cultural demonstrations to illustrate music’s note-worthy interaction with the brain and our emotions.

[Francis]

Check out RatDog:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBXMW9TI4CM

[henry]

ratdog 2010 in Negril looks like fun. maybe jerry will make a guest appearance. appreciation for your robert hunter "signature". i was kinda buddies with NRPS back in the day. remember "Henry"?(keep your brakes on for this corner if you please)

[Francis]

I've never seen the new riders. I don't get to san fran often enough. I'm quite fond of ratdog. Their repertoire is vast and the crowds are friendly. I'm especially admire Weir because he has found a way to fit his life's passion into a quite workable and successful business model; perpetual touring. Combine passion with pragmatism and the world is your oyster.

[henry]

yes, "bobby ace" seems like a fine lad, and what a biography he could write . In the early days the dead and new riders toured together. Garcia played pedal steel for the new riders and performed in both shows. In 1971 i visited their house in Kentfield and jumped off their roof via rope swing ....forrest

[Francis]

Did you ever meet John Barlow? He's cool too, he discovered pronoia!
 
http://www.pronoia.net/def.html

[henry]

francis, i only knew david nelson and john dawson(marmaduke RIP) but i feel a strong kinship with the esalen, whole earth, dead family bay area emergence which continues to be creative and fruitful. What a story . Geniuses fit for this miracle planet

[Francis]

thanks Henry

Sorry to hear about your friend.

Cheers to all the heroes of the Bay Area Emergence. 

[henry]

on the neuron side, i marvel today at the phenomenon of the whole earth catalog. Integral to the bone, it was google 35 years before google and precursor to the world wide web. Anyone remember "the WELL"? the cast of characters/contributors is a who's who of the 20th century evolutionary technosphere. Stewart Brand, peter warshall, howard rheingold, kevin kelley(wired), paul hawken, to name a very few . i still have 4 or 5 catalogs and a nearly complete collection of co-evolution quarterly/whole earth reviews. And their story isn't close to being done yet....Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish

[Francis]

I was profoundly influenced by the whole earth catalog. That's how I first heard about Buckminster Fuller. When people asked me about what I was reading, I told them it was sort of like a "pinko yellow pages" I still have that now yellow and dog-eared copy with the broken binding-because it opened my mind.  Did Divine Rights ever make it?

[henry]

yes DR, and Henry from edward Abbeys "fool's progress" made it back to the mountains , a little worse for wear. the jury is still out on heartmind henry ..."neighbor" Gurney Norman has gone on to be the poet laureate of kentucky, and has been on the UK english faculty with whole earth luminary Wendell Berry. They clearly have stolen the agrarian Fugitive fire from my alma mater vanderbilt

[Nickeson]

Henry,

I once (1973) wrote an essay for my friend, the Rev. Will D. Campbell's magazine Katalagate. The title of the Piece was, "A True Cowboy Story and Why it Might Be A Lie." Will congratulated me later that the essay might have been the one thing that would refute the charge that he and his little band of anarchists were all part of the "New Agrarians"--Nashville being the operative site for such mind sets.

The essay was written specifically to puncture the myths created by The Whole Earth Catalog and its self-congratulating and often phony sidekick, Mother Earth News (an editor of which was a very good friend of mine and who was recently teaching Perceptual Psych. at Vandy.) On the other hand, notices posted in WEC by my friend and mentor Frank Turley allowed him to establish the oldest blacksmithing school in the USA, which furnishes him with a very good living while only having to work 15 weeks out of the year.

Cheers, S

[henry]

"nashville being the operative site for such mind sets"                                                            you talkin' 'bout me Steven? ...i can relate. my friends away from tennis at vandy were from old middle tennessee and southwest virginia farming families. Fugitives, more prankster than literary, we may have done better than most on the Exit Inn agrarian litmus test. All of us farmed and cowboyed rather unsuccessfully after college(i still have my farm in burkes garden)....Stewart Brand in his upcoming "whole earth discipline" makes a 180 degree departure from the back to the land WEC days. i think he now believes cities make the most sense for sustainable human habitation...thanks for the Frank Turley link....henry

[Nickeson]

Henry,

Lets do a little Old Second Home Week. I was a cowboy before college where I sought refuge from Wyoming Cowboying from December through March--from April through November it's a kick. While you were playing tennis with the Middle Tennessee Young Mandarins (those hippies who would wear their Rolex into the Elliston Street Soda Shop) I was not far away at the Vandy Courts playing handball two or three hours a day for free because my colleague Lawrence Wright and sidekick Tom Carr (then late of Mother Earth News) had the zombies from the Athletic Dept convinced that we were faculty.

Over in Balderville there is a newbie from Nashville who tells me the Soda Shop still stands.

S.

[henry]

and while you summer vacation cowboys were in school, i was feeding cattle in below zero winds, through 5 foot snow drifts. had to put a leather strap on my rolex, but its still tickin'