The Existential Porcupine: July 2010

Friday, July 23, 2010

First Post

Welcome. This is the first post on The Existential Porcupine, a blog dedicated to Music, Emotion and Everything. I will be posting my first actual post (this is just a welcome note and not an actual post) soon. It will describe my recent experience playing my first open mic. I look forward to hopefully offering something of occasional interest and reading your comments. I am compelled to join the blogging masses because of a strong, if not original, desire to share my creative impulses, to leave them open to the world, to suffer the agony of criticism and revel in the joy of positive affirmation. I love you all.

Tony

Friday, July 23, 2010

Friends and Inspiration

nicolarts.blogspot.com/ - Nicolas! Genius animator. Will eventually work for Disney, if he wants. Otherwise, he will continue to make his own films. "Pasteurized", his latest short, is finished!!! Keep your eye out for this short, animated gem.

http://tinyurl.com/64rrx8p - The Bloggess! Most hysterical blog posting I've ever read.

http://tinyurl.com/2besfwh - Berne Brown! A talk on the counter-intuitive notion that vulnerability increases social connection.

http://oakestown.org/ - Kaya Oakes! My relative! she's like a second cousin, once removed or something, but more importantly she's a great writer (hellof funny) and a very cool person. Her newest book "Radical Reinvention: An Unlikely Return to the Catholic Church" is available now. A great read!

http://tinyurl.com/7d7legz - Tara Brach! This is a talk called "Stress, Wakeful Relaxation And Freedom". Tara Brach has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and is a graduate of the five year Buddhist teacher training program at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center. I'm only slightly still upset with Tara for not replying to the email I sent her in Jan. 2010

http://www.michaelericdyson.com - Michael Eric Dyson! African-American scholar, Professor, public intellectual, civil rights advocate, and strong proponent of Affirmative Action. Brilliant debater.

www.timwise.org - Tim Wise! White, anti-racist writer and educator. Compelling and inspiring.