Sunset Intersection: Best List Addendum

February 3, 2016

Best List Addendum

Doesn't everybody listen to the NPR Tiny Desk Concerts?
There are now over 500, lots of surprises and a few clunkers. Sometimes your musical heroes/heroines just aren't having a good day (see Steve Earle).
Anyway, you like music that isn't dictated by the Hit-Radio Machine?
Go there.

Here's my choice for best Tiny Desk of 2015: DakhaBrakha

Here's best Tiny Desk of past years: St. Paul and the Broken Bones

And here's (drumroll) my best ever Tiny Desk of all time ever: Dessa

Honorable Mentions: Sarah Jarosz, Hozier, the Mynabirds

Not what you expected, huh? Okay then, send me yours.

Happy trials, Martin

Mutt and Jeff are listening to all 500 programs right now. They'll be back shortly.

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Beyond the Post-Modern Mind, Huston Smith

"As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves. Only the slightest of barriers separates us from our sacred unconscious; it is infinitely close to us. But we are infinitely far from it, so for us the barrier looms as a mountain that we must remove with our own hands. We scrape away at the earth, but in vain; the mountain remains. Still we go on digging at the mountain, in the name of God or whatever. For the most part we only hear of the final truth; very rarely do we actually see it. The mountain isn't there. It never was there."

Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety

"Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. No matter what the goal is, the path leads through Pilgrim's Progress regions of motivation, hard work, persistence, stubbornness, and resilience under disappointment. Unconsidered, merely indulged, ambition becomes a vice; it can turn a man into a machine that knows nothing but how to run. Considered, it can be something else--pathway to the stars, maybe.

I suspect that what makes hedonists so angry when they think about overachievers is that the overachievers, without drugs or orgies, have more fun."

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February 3, 2016

Best List Addendum

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