Comments on: Never Mind The Hack https://idlermag.com/2010/09/04/234/ A U.S. Webzine: 2010-2013 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:04:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dysphonia, signing off « The Idler https://idlermag.com/2010/09/04/234/#comment-4157 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:04:48 +0000 http://idler-mag.com/?p=234#comment-4157 […] my first Idler column I wrote about Neal Pollack, a writer I feel less than charitable about (even tho he is more famous than I, a better writer and […]

]]> By: Dysphonia: year one « The Idler https://idlermag.com/2010/09/04/234/#comment-1850 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:02:07 +0000 http://idler-mag.com/?p=234#comment-1850 […] first column was not as much a column as a diatribe against the write Neal Pollack. I’m not sure that my style has mellowed, but I think the first column stinks: clunky, short, and […]

]]> By: kateshrewsday https://idlermag.com/2010/09/04/234/#comment-36 Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:33:36 +0000 http://idler-mag.com/?p=234#comment-36 Thanks for this post….a former music student, flautist and composer, I could never have music on in the background because I always started to analyse it the minute it came on. When the kids came along I chose silence because I needed my mind to be still.

Of course, you can’t just stick them up in a silent tower so no seductive music comes by on a white charger to carry them off. It came anyway, and it did steal them away. First it was in the car, now they have it everywhere. My brain is busy again, charting bass lines, adding harmonies, and they devour any new material (Currently Cheryl Cole) voraciously. As you say, music is always right.

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