dharmaduf

dhar•ma (Sanskrit):
literally translates as 'that which upholds or supports'

dhar•ma•duf:
that which upholds or supports the duf

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Freshin’ up the iTunes Library with some Amazon Freebies

Every now and again I like to peruse the Free MP3 area on Amazon. The $5 Special Deals are pretty great too. (I know I’d feel differently if I were a professional musician, but $5 per digital album is a fair price to me.)

I picked up Broken Bells for $5 when it released. I like it even if the wife vetos it on road trips.

Today’s plunder of freebies is music-for-the-office-while-I-work:

Philip Glass - The Orange Mountain Music Philip Glass Sampler Vol. I
A must-have sampler mostly from his film soundtracks (Koyaanisqatsi, Fog of War, etc).

Various Artists - I Love the 80’s, Vol I
The 1880’s that is. A great compilation of symphonies from the Late Romantic period.

Or maybe Baroque is more to your liking?

Various Artists - Eternal Baroque
If opera’s not your thing, then pass, but to me opera puts me back in a small 1-room apartment my girlfriend and I shared in Bellingham, WA. We lived in a converted attic of an old house just down the hill from the college and above a guy who listened to opera in his kitchen whenever he was home. I found it soothing and culinarily inspiring.

Never sure how long the free stuff sticks around, but sorting the massive list by album helps to see which ones are offered in entirety.

Cartoon of the Day

Another case of life imitating art… I had to have a chat earlier this week with our neighbor across the street who has a springer-setter mix with a “constant barking” problem. It started shortly after the renovation and landscaping of their home finished. 9 months of construction noise was nowhere near as annoying as 3 days of “woof-woof… woof-woof… woof-woof… woof-woof… woof-woof… woof-woof… woof-woof… woof-woof… woof-woof… woof-woof… woof-woof… woof-woof… … … …”

Luckily it was just a matter of letting them know. A much better result than calling Animal Control, or slowly losing my mind.

↵ Reblogged from: The New Yorker

# neighbors

# dogs

Gareth Pearson - Beauty of Discipline

If music could describe a mountain bike ride, this mimics my ride on the nearly deserted trails above Durango this evening.

(via rpoland)

# video

# acoustic guitar

# like a trail ride

iPhone vs. HTC EVO & HTC EVO vs iPhone4

Profanity alert mid way thru, but it had me rolling.

(via df)

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For over 250 years the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) has been a cradle of enlightenment thinking and a force for social progress.

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