Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 1hFrom instrumentation to orchestration (in a usage I’ve seen, hardly universal) 110
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 2hIt has definitely migrated from UK usage to US, along with "wanker" etc. 010
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 3hAnd it means different things to the same person, depending on context. 000
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 9hEven apart from the hairy word choice, the rhetoric is not even trying. "the reality that ... probably", come on 110
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 20hCaught this on the radio -- the quirk that caught my ear was the phrase lengths of the chaconne, in which the last bar of the eight-bar ground is sometimes dropped, leading to seven-bar phrases (of sometimes eccentric instrumental material). www.youtube.com/watch?v=snGG...youtube.comVIVALDI | Concerto RV 107 in G minor | Original manuscriptYouTube video by Del Vivaldi 192
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 22hThere are some minor (standard but perceptible) irregularities which we wouldn’t notice if it were printed in lines 020
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Guy wrote some good showtunes, the orchestral stuff is indeed dubious 010
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 11/10/2026[liking to say, "Yes, Alan is well-traveled and cosmopolitan!"] 110
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I was going to ask if you had tried the non-Maigrets….I remember not getting them (decades ago) 000
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 11/10/2026These texts are sturdy, they can withstand being treated like lorem ipsum 000
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Yes, I was unclear — it’s true both that the party is the only one moving, or capable of moving, in the right direction, and that it contains reactionary elements 110
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Someone was just complaining about Democrats wrt the death penalty — and while it’s true that they’re better, it’s also intensely frustrating that the whole range of American opinion is represented within the party, so Ds do sometimes tack to the right 200
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Facade of the library in Old Colorado City, part of Colorado Springs. The period at the end feels 19C to me, but the sans-serif lettering is sleeker — Wikipedia says 1904 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Col... 020
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It seems to be boilerplate that turns up on many pages across musical specialties (here under “Advantages and Special Opportunities”) www.ccm.uc.edu/areas-of-stu...ccm.uc.eduDoctor of Musical Arts (Harpsichord) 010
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Both pretty hard to read, I find. I will say that since I wrote the above, some gears of plot have ground into effective action. 000
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Looks like a first version has been free online for a while: www.falconschildren.com/p/the-price-... Not clear why it will wait nine more months till publication….falconschildren.comThe Price of a ChildThe Falcon's Children, Prologue 000
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It occurs to me that I’ve been hearing people say “script”, as if my course of psycho pharmaceuticals were a play 100
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Uh-huh department (from the website of a graduate composition program): 3110
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026“The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.” On the other hand I’m currently reading the winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel about 40 years ago, and the writing is so clunky… 110
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Many images these days are heightened noticeably by some kind of postprocessing, making surfaces oddly smooth and edges oddly sharp. I suspect it’s automatic, perhaps for compression, but it makes them more like AI 010
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Obligatory www.theguardian.com/sport/articl...theguardian.comCheesy pictures: gymnast’s parmesan photos take Olympics by stormGiorgia Villa won silver for Italy in the women’s team final. But her passion for parmesan has also gained attention 010
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026We’re all used now to unpredictable prices (due partly to the deductible), so they’ve trained us not to respond 110
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Walgreens decided that in order to continue on a medication I’ve been taking for a year, I need to get my blood pressure taken. I’ll do it, but combined with a trip I’m taking, I’ll miss a week. (Trivial, but an example.) 120
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Probably they mean in the neutral philosophical sense, e.g. you have a height, an age, an accent 230
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The desire for explanation has been with us a long time. People don’t generally cultivate “negative capability” toward art, being open to its possibilities without requiring that it be placed and accounted for. Coming from classical music, I learned to appreciate e.g. a Haydn quartet without words. 000
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It does happen that we stumble into a pun while drafting or talking off the cuff — but if you have the time to reflect on that, you should pick a lane rather than leave the cringe in the text 110
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I do think classical music has/affords unique artistic virtues, but it’s not uniquely virtuous! (Not arguing with you, but these other idiots) 010
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Are there examples of this — not necessarily romance, but non-order-bound series? Outside avant-garde experiments like Robert Grenier’s “Sentences” 120
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026You’re right, sometimes with egg yolk but usually not (and certainly not “technically” so) 000
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026No matter how many times the illusion is corrected, I still picture southern Ontario as being a frozen northern waste (thank you irregular borders), and central Europe as being well south of its real location (thank you Gulf Stream) 040
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Do they think bombing will reestablish free passage through the strait? 010
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Feels so good I have to roll over … but that moves my back away from the scratcher (and exposes the belly) — the secret of perpetual motion 170
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026How were attitudes toward foreigners supposed to have been relevant? Silly question, probably 100
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I thought so, which was making it hard to parse. But at least I’m reassured now 010
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I'm saying that lots of books use filler of this kind, but (uncharitably) that genre books do it more. 110
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026So the line about remarks is Gertrude Stein's, to Hemingway. The target was a kind of line he enjoyed putting in his prose -- worldly observations, which add a kind of color or verisimilitude to narrative but don't convey the gossip, as you put it. 110
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Obviously cheating, but there is a major genre of music whose ethos is the "cover". www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDnE...youtube.comIt Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)YouTube video by Thelonious Monk - Topic 030
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Hard to believe “Hey Joe” is also a cover. (This one is a decent song made great — HJ is a triviality rebuilt into something else.) 030
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Many engaging posters on social media are genre writers, who excel at making remarks with emphatic attitude. [Posting this under my October name so nobody can trace it back to my responsible identity.] 110
Vance Maverick @vancemaverick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I’m a snob who enjoys some genre stuff, and I keep coming back to the chilly saying “Remarks are not literature.” Gossip is a kind of talk where meaning accrues obscurely, i.e. more than remarks. 120
