1. What do you think...if you were going to make a big deal out of opening a collection of galleries to celebrate the beauty of Islamic and Middle Eastern Art, keeping in mind that the many diverse styles of art the galleries were built to present have long been overshadowed by "European" art which is more widely "understood" and appreciated in the good US of A, how would you celebrate its opening? Would it be by finding a slightly odd Turkish pianist who first plays peices by European composers before then presenting his own compsitions which, with names such as "Four Dances of Nasreddin Hodja" and "Istanbul Album", are sufficiently Turkish to count?
The Met thought so, but your answer might be a bit different. That's the beauty of this world, so many different opinions.
Don't get me wrong - I loved listening to Say's music and watching him play in the video below and his other work available on youtube, especially as he pounds away while also manipulating the piano strings with his other hand.
2. Lots of press lately about scientists with a lot more political credibility than Timothy Leary who think drugs such as MDMA and psilocybin (the fun part of mushrooms) should be used to treat all sorts of things from anxiety in terminally-ill patients to shitty marriages to alcoholism. Think of all that wasted potential.
3. Turkey wine tip: wine jelly, for the class of wines that aren't even good enough to mull.
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