Comments on: Prehistoric http://www.alexshapiro.org/blog/?p=658 nature and music in the San Juan Islands, from composer Alex Shapiro Thu, 09 May 2013 22:20:08 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: notes from the kelp » The Eagles’ Greatest Hits http://www.alexshapiro.org/blog/?p=658&cpage=1#comment-227262 notes from the kelp » The Eagles’ Greatest Hits Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:23:53 +0000 http://www.alexshapiro.org/blog/?p=658#comment-227262 [...] In fact, had I moved, the eagle would have flown off even sooner than it did. Much like the Great Blue Herons, as large as they are and unflappable as you’d think they’d be, they’re keenly [...] [...] In fact, had I moved, the eagle would have flown off even sooner than it did. Much like the Great Blue Herons, as large as they are and unflappable as you’d think they’d be, they’re keenly [...]

]]> By: Lane Savant http://www.alexshapiro.org/blog/?p=658&cpage=1#comment-225764 Lane Savant Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:29:35 +0000 http://www.alexshapiro.org/blog/?p=658#comment-225764 Answering machines; "Marcel Proust once said that the telephone was an amusing device but he could see that it would become quite tiring after a while. What 's your opinion?" - beep! Computers and their musical accessories - three cheers! Sibelius - Three more cheers!! Garritan Personal Orchestra - three more cheers!!! Finding the music I create is every bit as incomprehensible as my sense of humor -eh! Alon Goldstein's Appassionata at the Phillips gallery in D.C. - I am speechless! Answering machines;
“Marcel Proust once said that the telephone was an amusing device but he could see that it would become quite tiring after a while. What ’s your opinion?” – beep!

Computers and their musical accessories – three cheers!
Sibelius – Three more cheers!!
Garritan Personal Orchestra – three more cheers!!!

Finding the music I create is every bit as incomprehensible as my sense of humor -eh!

Alon Goldstein’s Appassionata at the Phillips gallery in D.C. – I am speechless!

]]> By: Glenn Buttkus http://www.alexshapiro.org/blog/?p=658&cpage=1#comment-225762 Glenn Buttkus Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:09:35 +0000 http://www.alexshapiro.org/blog/?p=658#comment-225762 Very complex posting here. We have the nature girl, who just spun off watching hummingbirds, sucking her popcicle, on the post prior, to the further appreciation of those lanky flying scarecrows, the herons and pelicans. Pelicans in California, at least in San Diego, love to dive bomb crowds and drop their pungent dung on people and cars and such. I was the recipient of such a gift once. Then we are reminded of looking back, to childhood, with your PIANO SUITE #1 @ 1:38, and the sounds of the city, the vastness of NYC, begin to plink and sqwack around us--sending us down memory lane, peering back over the decades, recalling that hind sight can be 20/20, but the road ahead is unknown, uncharted, undiscovered. Hard to remember actually how much technology has catapulted us into a frenzy of productiveness. Teens and twenty-somethings do take it for granted, of course, and perhaps that is as it should be. In 25 years, as they look back over their lives, God only knows where technology will have taken them and us; if some of us are still around in 2035. You have taken to the new frontier like a zealot, like a mallard to a pond, and it still dazzles those of us older than you, how deftly you twitter, flip through u-Tube, Facebook, and the internet proper like you were born to it. May you continue to thrive and prosper--and live long as Spock might say. Very complex posting here. We have the nature girl, who just spun off watching hummingbirds, sucking her popcicle, on the post prior, to the further appreciation of those lanky flying scarecrows, the herons and pelicans. Pelicans in California, at least in San Diego, love to dive bomb crowds and drop their pungent dung on people and cars and such. I was the recipient of such a gift once. Then we are reminded of looking back, to childhood, with your PIANO SUITE #1 @ 1:38, and the sounds of the city, the vastness of NYC, begin to plink and sqwack around us–sending us down memory lane, peering back over the decades, recalling that hind sight can be 20/20, but the road ahead is unknown, uncharted, undiscovered.
Hard to remember actually how much technology has catapulted us into a frenzy of productiveness. Teens and twenty-somethings do take it for granted, of course, and perhaps that is as it should be. In 25 years, as they look back over their lives, God only knows where technology will have taken them and us; if some of us are still around in 2035. You have taken to the new frontier like a zealot, like a mallard to a pond, and it still dazzles those of us older than you, how deftly you twitter, flip through u-Tube, Facebook, and the internet proper like you were born to it.
May you continue to thrive and prosper–and live long as Spock might say.

]]> By: Adrienne Albert http://www.alexshapiro.org/blog/?p=658&cpage=1#comment-225760 Adrienne Albert Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:23:28 +0000 http://www.alexshapiro.org/blog/?p=658#comment-225760 Terrific article, my pterodactyl friend. But my one SQUAWK is... why did you lead me to that R. former senator from Alaska, Ted Stevens? I'm always curious as to what is on "the other side". So I clicked on inter-tubes. And Yuck! :-)! Up he came. But fortunately, you know how to manipulate the web so that I got to come right back to you and your wonderfully pithy comments. Thanks for sharing! xox Terrific article, my pterodactyl friend. But my one SQUAWK is… why did you lead me to that R. former senator from Alaska, Ted Stevens? I’m always curious as to what is on “the other side”. So I clicked on inter-tubes. And Yuck! :-) ! Up he came. But fortunately, you know how to manipulate the web so that I got to come right back to you and your wonderfully pithy comments. Thanks for sharing! xox

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