Le maquillage

01/06/2024

With the tornado repairs and the deferred maintenance on the house, and with my having decided to buy and do some middle-class things, I feel I am hemorrhaging money, but guessing it will soon stop. In makeup, there’s an eye pencil I still want, and I still want to start dyeing my eyelashes again. I’m … More Le maquillage

Elite Capture

31/05/2024

What interests me about the book isn’t just the thesis. It’s that, as he points out, people have seen this and written about it before. Decades ago. The other thing is the arguments he describes in detail, I didn’t know all of the people he discusses. And chronology gets clarified since he is looking globally. … More Elite Capture

Children of narcissistic parents

28/05/2024

Someone said: “Часто дети нарциссических родителей вырастают созависимыми. И потом слушаются каждого приказа нарциссов-родителей, обслуживают их, как слуги, притом, что родители здоровы в целом, стараясь, выслужившись, получить любовь, и руководимые ощущением токсического стыда.” Axé.

Playing Fado

24/05/2024

So a simple fado in A has four chords: Dm, A, A7, and C. You get the melancholy from the minor chord and the dissonance from the 7th, but you are really relying a lot on the tonic and the C which is what: subdominant? I think of it as a “fourth” but that is … More Playing Fado