WHEN INFORMATION COLLIDES

THE INTERNET AND THE FRAGMENTATION OF INFORMATION

Ken Auletta,author and writer for "The New York Times",was going along just fine in talking
to the Google staff about his book,"Google:The End of the World as we know it",on C-Span.He was
very fair in both his praise of Google's foresight and it's insensativity to copyright holders of Book's
,Film and Television Rights,and Music Copyright owners.He even told them that he did sense
"Hubbris" amidst the companys workers and leaders.But for the most part he was fair and praised
much of what Google had achieved thru foresight that others had missed,a point i would second.
In one digression on search results which he mostly had praise for,he mentioned Googling
"Who is William Shakespeare?" or "Who was the real William Shakspeare?" and getting a 20 million hits ! I tried it myself and he's right.There are so many results,most of which don't deal with questions about Shakespeares identity,but just books about his plays and such.To get to a really
great book i read recently that does deal with myths about Shakespeare's identity,"Shakespeare:
The World as a Stage" by Bill Bryson,who has also appeared on C-span;i had to google "A Short
History of nearly everything" a more recent book by Bryson to find his Shakspeare book-which i
highly recomend.
Bryson's book does a fantastic job of de-bunking nearly all of the false mythology about who Shakespeare was and provides plenty of information to back-up that he was who he and others said he was.It details the time period in which Shakespeare plays were written and his fortunes rose in such a way that he becomes a much more real and understandable person.Someome who seems most capable of becoming the worlds foremost playright.It does this in a fairly small volume,which makes it even more valuble.Obviously Bryson went to a great deal of trouble to distill all the known facts from the flights of fancy that so many people still have about our dear William.So what does all this prove? Only that internet searches as wonderful and helpful as they
are are imperfect.That sometimes the most valuble resource to answer a question completely
escapes the search.How often this happens i can't say,but that it does and sometimes on a fairly
straightforeword question for now is a reality.I'm sure there's a simple solution out there just
waiting for someone to discover it.It's just a matter of time.Don't expect complete perfection.It
will no doubt escape us.Just a little more perfect union would suit us all just fine-for the time being.

written byPete Holly-2009-copyright-all rights reserved

Time and the Artist

TIME AND THE ARTIST
by Pete Holly

The realationship between time and the artist is a very direct one.It's owed to the fact
that no matter how much talent god has given to you-if you don't have the time to employ it,
then no art will be created.Time is one of the most decisive factors in an artists life.
Tom Wait's expressed it well in his song "Time".For it's "time,time,time," the artist holds
most precious "you love",it's "time,time,time".For without enough of it-the artist will not be allowed to finish any creation.
Look at the life of the great artist Leonardo Da Vinci.Many consider him to be the greatist
painter of all time-yet he finished realativly few paintings because he didn't have enough time.
He found himself at the mercy of patrons who were most interested in his idea's for new weaponry for war-and so he spent much time selling himself as one able to provide these new
idea's of military weaponry-that would entice the patron to sponser Da Vinci-so that he could make a living.So we see many ideas's for new weapons of war in Leonardo's notebook's because
this was a calling card he used many time's in his life in order to aquire a sponser-to make a living.Many a patron took Da Vinci up on his ability to do just such work;as well as hydralics and
other helpful inventions that King's and Queens{and even Pope's}were most interested in,even if only a relatively few were ever actually employed or used.Indeed,since Leonardo's notebook's
were discovered he is as much well known for correctly predicting idea's that would help
Men and women achieve a means,such as Flight,The Helicopter,The Tank,and Submarines in the
future-as he is well known for his incredible paintings of which there are relativly few of which he
was ever able to actually finish.It's a great illustration of just how precious time is for every artist.

-written by Pete Holly-2009-copyright-all rights reserved-

COMPOSITIONS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST

1."MARTHA MY DEAR"-THE BEATLES
THE WHITE ALBUM

THIS IS AN INTERESTING PIECE OF McCARTNEY WORK BECAUSE
IT SOUNDS SO SIMILAIR TO PAULS LATER SOLO AND "WINGS"
RECORDINGS.IT COULD BE RIGHT IN PLACE ON NEARLY ANY-
ONE OFF THOSE LATER EFFORTS BY PAUL AND FIT RIGHT IN
AND YET IT'S QUITE A FEW YEARS AHEAD OF WHEN THOSE
RECORDS WOULD ACTUALLY BE MADE.IT HAS THAT SAME
SINGULAR McCARTNEY SOUND THAT PAUL WOULD REFER TO
TIME AND TIME AGAIN AFTER HE LEFT THE BEATLES.THE
BOUNCING PIANO MELODY-AND CAREFREE LYRICS-THAT
TURNED OUT TO BE ABOUT A BIG SHEEPDOG ! BUT THERE'S
NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT;IT'S JUST THE WAY IT SEEMS
TO PROJECT INTO PAULS FUTURE MUSIC WHEN YOU HEAR IT
NOW-SO MANY YEARS BEFORE HE WOULD ACTUALLY GET TO
MAKING THOSE RECORDS-IT'S UNCANNY ! ME THINKS SO.

PETE HOLLY-2009-COPYRIGHT-ALL RIGHT RESERVED

The Greatist Recordings of All Time

53,"AVA MARIA"-BUDDPEST STRINGS-FRANZ SHUBERT-
1797-1828

When it comes to brevity of life and lack of proffesional success;Franz Shubert
made Van Gogh look like a successful Wall Street stockbroker.Van Gogh had meet
and even made friends many of the impressionist painters-Monot-Manet-Dega-
Gaugain,Seurat in Paris and pretty much all of them admired Van Gogh's totally
unique style-contrary to popular belief-Van Gogh paintings did find a market.
It was comprised mainly of other artist's-the highest compliment a painter could
be bestowed at the time.
No such arrangements can be found in Composer Franz Shubert short lifetime.
He died at the age of 31 without recieving any recognition at all from the public.
He left behind 19 unsucssuccessful Opera's and all of his many symphonies
which also drew no attention at the time.Shy,he had few friends.His now famous
piano and orchestra works were not dicovered until decade's after his death.
It's ironic that one of the most successful songs of all Time{and oft recognized}
was written by a man whom the world barely noticed when he was alive.

Written by Pete Holly-copyright-2009-all rights reseved

The Greatist Recordings of All-Time

52."Breakdown"-Tom Petty
and the Heartbreakers

It's impossible to comunicate today what a breath of fresh air Tom
Petty's "Breakdown" was back in 1977.After disco and too many sensitive
singer-songwriters to name;Petty and Co. came across as a straight-ahead
somewhat roots oriented band{The Byrds,The Rolling Stones}.Petty was
a Rock 'n Roll singer with a unique voice and a Top-Notch band.
Basically a two chord song,Three on the chorus,Breakdown" is the
the ultimate rock 'n roll simplicity.Ah,but what a beautiful simplicity
it was and is.
"Breakdown" set the template for many of Petty's later hit's.A simple
chord progression with direct and simple lyrics-sometime's aided by a sly
sense of humor.Then thier is guitarist's Mike Cambell's very tasty lead-
guitar work-and keyboardist Benmont Tench to bring it all home.
The Heartbreaker's Rocked !

The Greatist Recordings of All-Time

51."Born to Run"-Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

"Born to Run" was the last song on which drummer Vincent "Boom,Boom" Carter
played before he was replaced by Max Wienburg.The funny thing is-if you didn't know
a differant drummer played on all the other tracks you'd never know the differance.
Both Carter and Wienburg have distinctive drum styles-so why can't we tell the differance?
There are a couple of factors."Born to Run" is an all-out Rocker,even so there's
a middle eight that evolve's into a series of about 20 desending notes-that's very unusual
for a rock song.The song also has an amazing amout of overdubs-Springsteen was trying
to recreate Phil Spectors "Wall Of Sound" and he suceeded.So with it's large amount of
overdubs and complex arrangement-plus the shear rock 'n roll driving force of the song;
Carter's drumming style is hidden to a certain degree.The other tracks on the album are
less complex in general and have fewer overdubs so the end result is you don't notice there's
a differant drummer.

Written by Pete Holly-2009-Copyright-all rights reserved