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Monthly Archives: January 2007

Richard Nixon’s Piano Concerto #1

A friend sent over a link to the video of Richard Nixon playing piano on the Jack Parr show. I was reminded of the quest I went on long ago to get copies of piano music composed by Richard Nixon. Having read that the president composed music I thought his theme song for the Orthogonians [...]

Anything to say?

I forget sometimes how much thought and industry are wasted. The time spent practicing piano, learning Granados’ Goyescas (as I’ve been doing lately), is time spent burning through thoughts and ideas, random memories and meaningless self-analysis. Other endeavors generate oceans of thought and ideas, virtually all of it wasted or forgotten. It mystifies me how [...]