Showing posts with label brilliant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brilliant. Show all posts

Monday, July 8, 2019

Brilliant . . .

. . . defense by our illustrious 45 to from leaked comments by British Ambassador to the U.S. . . 



". . . “The ambassador has not served the U.K. well," . . . "I can tell you that. We’re not, we’re not big fans of that man.”. . ."






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Monday, December 24, 2018

Which One . . .

. . . did he really mean? . . . or. . . does he even really know?


(from https://thehill.com/policy/defense/308364-trump-picks-mattis-for-defense-secretary-report)
". . .Mattis has been seen as a top contender for the job since he met with Trump earlier this month. . . After the meeting, Trump heaped praised on Mattis, calling him the “real deal” and a “brilliant, wonderful man.”. . ."


(from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/23/us/politics/trump-mattis.html)
". . . After initially praising Mattis in announcing his resignation last week, Trump jabbed his top military official on Saturday, tweeted that he gave the retired four-star general "a second chance" after former President Barack Obama "ingloriously fired" him. Mattis led U.S. Central Command from 2010 to 2013, but his time at the helm was cut short because of disagreements with the Obama administration on Iran. . ."



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Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Hurry . . .

. . . Some folks are just plain restless.  They bore easily.  They are unsatisfied with many things within their own life as well as things in the world as a whole. Many times these folks are truly just plain brilliant and go on to accomplish wonderful things for mankind. Sometimes, not so. I am not, by nature, restless. In fact, I can be quite complacent at times. There was a time however, when I felt so very restless that it was severely affecting my attitude. When I was approaching the end of my college career, I found myself eager to get on with a 'real' life in the 'real' world. This was actually a phrase that I used frequently to express my frustration with what began to feel like some kind of make-believe world, or role-playing exercise. I simply wanted that chapter to end and to get on with career, personal pursuits and the rest of it. I have not regretted the decisions I have made since that time and I now find a deeper understanding of what I was feeling then.  But also with hindsight, comes an appreciation for those (relatively) responsibility-free days of being young and being a student. . .


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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Two . . .

. . . brilliant statements . . .


“My use of ‘schlonged’ was not vulgar.”

"This has nothing to do with religion; it’s about safety,”








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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Brilliant . . .

. . . versus creative . . .


 Listening to the World Cafe radio program on NPR of pre-recorded interviews with George Martin, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr and playing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

People frequently refer to artists, musical and otherwise as 'brilliant' or by some other such superlative;  and that's fine, except that they and their listeners must remember that the 'brilliance' to which they refer is merely subjective.

George Martin, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr (also the late John Lennon and George Harrison) may be referred to by some as brilliant, and that's fine, but it is a superlative and it is subjective.

All these people are extremely gifted, talented and creative individuals who happened to exist at a specific period in time during which there existed one particular and specific music industry complete with technological and structural elements that were unique to that time and which all working together and interacting as a business and cultural influence produced and distributed the product that resulted from the interaction of all the aforementioned factors in one particular time and space.

It cannot be duplicated or replicated ever again.

It was indeed CREATIVE.  But was it brilliant?  Maybe.  Maybe not.  But it happened.  And we have a record of the fruits of the labors of these unique creative individuals for our personal and professional gratification.

Do we still have brilliance, creativity, gifts, talents and creativity?  Will we continue to recognize, appreciate and reward it?   I can only hope so. 



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Friday, May 20, 2011

The blessing and the curse. . .

. . . of aging is perspective. Although I choose to concentrate upon the blessing (and I use the term in purely secular fashion) aspect to be sure. That aspect was vividly, yet unexpectedly brought once again to my attention when pondering the talents and the moving music produced by Eric Dolphy.

In case you're not familiar with Eric Dolphy, he was a (chronologically) post-bop, jazz reed virtuoso, equally skilled and emotionally proficient on flute, alto saxophone and bass clarinet (which has, since my acquaintance with his music, become one of my favorite reed instruments). Born in 1928 in Los Angeles, he died in Berlin in June of 1964 of complications of a diabetic coma and sheer neglect. It seems the hospital staff, after Eric collapsed on stage, succumbing to the stereotypical view that all (or most) jazz musicians were drug addicts, left Eric in bed, unattended, to allow the alleged drugs to run their course. A brilliant, but tragically short, life.

My first exposure to Eric Dolphy is to the credit of my old school chum Bob Z., who had sometime around 1973 purchased an Eric Dolphy LP, which I cannot readily now identify due to record companies' haphazard practice of issuing unrelated and insufficiently documented recordings as an 'album', which contained mostly live material and a seminal performance of the old standard LAURA. The recording, now available as one of three "Live in Europe" CDs, still gives me goosebumps when I hear it.

The 'blessing' and the 'aging' to which I previously alluded come into play as follows. The pieces to which I was listening were recorded around 1960. I was hearing them in the early seventies. That means that music was made about thirteen years prior to my discovering it. In my innocent youthfulness, I perceived that mere 13 years as "A LONG TIME" ago. And the 36 years of age Eric had attained was really very young by most objective standards, but old to one of fifteen years.

Now, at fifty-three, listening to this glorious music and looking at photos of Eric Dolphy online, the apparent truth of the matter is that, when Eric passed away, he was only a kid. But what a BRILLIANT kid!


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