Learn something new, Share something new: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c8an2XZ3MU"]YouTube - Terence Mckenna - Culture is your operating system now share something to learn something
Sorry. It triggered my Pseudo-Spiritual Psychobabble meter. I lasted until the 4-minute mark, though. Which I think was pretty heroic of me.
I freakin love this video. There's another too like it I'll post if I find it later. Fact: Ireland was called Hibernia by the Romans.
James Burke-Connections These are great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dnr9Yp8VfY"]YouTube - "Faith In Numbers" (CC) The whole series is here- https://www.youtube.com/user/JamesBurkeWeb
im currently learning about lobotomies! http://www.hulu.com/watch/196927/am...ormation/Documentary-and-Biography#s-p3-so-i0
There was some old Native who drank beer with us all night, I think he is the husband of one of the owners. We started talking and I found out he's been playing piano for 15 years and does it for a living. He asked me how long I'd been playing and if I ever wanted to play for money, I told him I dunno, I couldn't see myself becoming that good and he visibly winced. I got excited but the more I talked to him the more my elation faded. He said he mainly played soft rock and blues. I'm thinking "wow, how lame, this bull aint no Bach". Then I said 15 years was impressive and wondered if he had any tips. He stuttered that I should practice scales (duh). I said I've only bothered with major so far. He said learning minor is easy, which I already know minor, but I humored him and asked him how. He then started talking about Major Triads, and how to switch them over to Minor, but he kept getting the notes wrong. I dunno if it was because he was drunk or what. Just as I thought "yup, Oklahoma" he stood up and said "ahh,. just follow me". We wordlessly left the kitchen of the restaurant and took the elevator up to the dark third floor, and walked down to the abandoned lobby next to the law firm and he sat down at an old upright piano. Out of no where he starts blasting out the most ridiculous, lush, soulful blues I've ever heard. I almost cried. I couldn't stop smiling. It went on and on for 10 minutes, while I looked out the window at the bustling downtown nightlife. It was emotional, spontaneously powerful. Before I knew it the piano was silenced before his fat, stubby, but nimble fingers. In a gruff, drunk voice - "So that's minor chords...they make you cry". I realized that this wasn't a man of words or learning, but a man of spirit. Later on in the night, when I was outside in the alley with a few other workers having a cig, he stumbled out the door. After tripping up over a milk crate and practically falling flat on his face, he walked up to me, and inches from my face, and breathing up alcohol fumes he muttered "and even if you never get gigs, always remember, you gotta feed your soul". Then he stumbled down the alley, leaned on the wall and took a piss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY59wZdCDo0"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY59wZdCDo0 Carl Sagans dialog to a new video. Fund NASA.
These are the best-these are TED talks. Invited speakers are given a limited time to discuss a topic in their field of expertise. Some of these are amazing. I love watching there. http://www.ted.com/
The Sagan Series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2oXFWKpJiA"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2oXFWKpJiA
Bill Hicks! Who? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAnjWHP7KAc"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAnjWHP7KAc
