AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.
This one was focusing on two pieces of music, neither of which was familar to me. Also I listened to it in the car to and from a periodontist appointment so I'm not in what you'd call the most open mood.
Funny that I never even heard of The Nervous Set, it sounds like my kind of thing. It's the source for Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most.
They had one of those convos about postmodernism and nihilism. These guys are deliberately somewhat intellectually conservative, I guess understandable if you are an academic humanist where pomo nihilism is the dominant philosophy. I'm just a complete outsider and to me antifoundationalism seems kinda hip, it can actually be a solution to the philosopher's blues rather than a problem. But I'm weird.
PF told a story about his father, who was a depressed philosopher and an angry atheist, "god doesn't exist and he's an asshole". That's sort of my base view as well, but I'm trying to lever myself out of it. (reminds of Yossarian and belief ).
Read the Yeats sailing to Byzantium poem, the source of the title No Country for Old Men.