Go Savoullis

Mingus on Academia?

"Making the simple complicated*¹ is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple**², that's creativity." ~ Charles Mingus

Recipe for:

*1 Publishing scientific papers

**2 Being a good teacher

Why my desktop is never tidy

"My problem with classifications is that they don’t last; hardly have I finished putting things into an order before that order is obsolete. Like everyone else, I presume, I am sometimes seized by a mania for arranging things. The sheer number of the things needing to be arranged and the near-impossibility of distributing them according to any truly satisfactory criteria means that I never finally manage it, that the arrangements I end up with are temporary and vague, and hardly any more effective that the original anarchy"

- George Perec, How I Classify

Vavas is Waiting for the Mayan Mothership

Tindersticks @ Bush Empire, March 2010

you can get the 'official bootleg' here

Woven Hand @ Block33, Thessaloniki (Nov. 2009)

Σώτη Τριανταφύλλου στο Orient Express

Download

It works this way as well

"What makes me sad is my creeping awareness that, sooner or later - sooner that I am ready to admit - I will integrate myself into a new community, forgetting and forgotten by the place that now means so much to me. In short , what makes me sad is the awareness that I will lose my desire for (what is now) my home."
-SZ

What makes me sad is my creeping awareness that, sooner or later - sooner that I am ready to admit - I will integrate myself into a new relationship, forgetting and forgotten by the woman that has ment so much to me. In short, what makes me sad is the awareness that I will lose my desire for (whom is now) my woman.

Between

Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman
- Woody Allen

There is no direct, unmediated relation between the male and female sexual position, because the Other of language stands between them as a third party
- Jacques Lacan

Playing the Building (by David Byrne) @ Roundhouse, 31 August 2009

White rim with Warsaw theme (beamer ~ latex)

Problem:

Notice the white rim appearing on the left. A quick (but not the most elegant) solution to this is to edit the theme file used by Warsaw.

Open the tex\latex\beamer\themes\outer directory and (after backing up), edit:

beamerouterthemeshadow.sty

In the

\defbeamertemplate*{frametitle}{shadow theme}

block, find the following line:

\hskip-\Gm@lmargin\hbox{%

and add an hskip, for me -0.05ex worked:

\hskip-\Gm@lmargin\hskip-0.05ex\hbox{%

Well, it's a long, long time

From May to December.

But the days grow short,
When you reach September

And the days dwindle down

To a precious few
September, November..

Πρωινή Ισυμμετρία (Ισφισπούριον)

Philip Glass @ BBC Proms (8/2009)

http://rapidshare.com/files/268039581/BBC_Proms_2009_Prom_37_Philip_Glass_-_Copy.part1.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/268043149/BBC_Proms_2009_Prom_37_Philip_Glass_-_Copy.part2.rar


Philip Glass
* Violin Concerto (23 mins)
* Symphony No.7 'A Toltec Symphony' (UK premiere) (36 mins)

* Gidon Kremer violin

* BBC Symphony Chorus
* BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
* Dennis Russell Davies conductor

An Ocean of Volcanos

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Clint Mansell and The Sonus Quartet @ Union Chapel, London (July 2009)

"The live line-up is a nine-piece band featuring the Sonus Quartet from Los Angeles and also piano, guitars ,bass and drums. We will play music from Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain and The Wrestler as well as some new material, yet to be released."




From The Fountain:



From Requiem:

Sixteen Summers, Fifteen Falls

The Townes Van Zandt version:


from For the Sake of the Song

and the Staples (Tindersticks) cover:

Latex tables made a lot easier

Convert Excel spreadsheets to LaTeX tables

excel2latex

Evangelical (A)theism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_God_Go

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_God_Go_XII

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6591231.ece

http://lucidsawndream.blogspot.com/2009/06/atheist-summer-camp.html


"On the one hand we have this so called rise of fundamentalism and so on, but something very interesting started to happen in the last years. Did you notice how a certain very vulgar direct materialism, attacking religion as stupidity, immoral laws, is gaining also at the same time extreme popularity. The three big stars even for, of course us, are originally Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and now also Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris. Its kind of an extremely vulgur reductionist materialism claiming religion is basically stupid, ethically hurtfull and so on. I think more and more that these are in a way two sides of the same coin, that we don't have to choose between these two." - SZ

Improvisations With Marc Ribot, Evan Parker and Han Bennink