BETTER LATE THAN NEVER, MOTHERFUCKERS
202-224-3121
Tell your Dem senators:
Chuck needs to gooooooo

Great that Raja lost to Stratton. She needs to get better though.
Very bummed that Kat and Junaid lost.
Lessons:
1) Illinois needs to organize more.
2) Illinois needs rank choice voting.
3) L’s are always tough but you live to fight another day.

The illegal war with Iran is the United States’ Sicilian Expedition.
May it come to a swift end with as few deaths as possible. May the empire fall as swiftly as possible with as few deaths as possible. May the admin be held accountable as swiftly as possible.

Again, We Begin A poem in seventeen turns on time, power, and renewal. The dawn is breaking.

Again, we begin.

Not because it’s new.

Because it’s necessary.

Give it a read; it unfolds here:

www.sousarion.com/p/again-we-begin

For taking in Satanyahu, Germany needs new Nürnberg trials. Only this time no Nazi gets to flee to the Americas (including the USA) or elsewhere.
The entire U.S. regime needs trials and consequences.
Throw in basically all of Congress as well.

Again, We Begin A poem in seventeen turns on time, power, and renewal. The dawn is breaking.

A poem of these times must also be outside our time,

For it must show how our times not only echo but repeat, to some extent,

Events our forebears also had to navigate.

Ai, drones, etc., are symptoms.

Why not investigate the causes?

Check out my latest here:

Sousarion.com/p/again-we-b...

Corrupt old man going after a corrupt younger one. This is faux leadership posturing.
“I’m investigating” is just and other strongly worded letter.
We’re about to invade Iran with your tacit support. No wants it.
Money for war but not for country.
Too many Illinoisans can’t afford to live.
FU

Again, We Begin A poem in seventeen turns on time, power, and renewal. The dawn is breaking.

Again, We Begin.

A long poem on renewal, responsibility, and the shape of our age.

Published this morning. Here's the link:

www.sousarion.com/p/again-we-b...

One of the best political commentators in the United States takes a break from discussing the illegal kidnapping of Meduro to get his hair cut on stream.

Merry Socialistmas, everyone!!!

A whispering wind of motion and beauty:

“Humanity’s attempt to truly communicate with one another is our most beautiful, honorable failure. Consequently, I have nothing more to say.”
—Sousarion

Where are the subsidies old man? @durbin.senate.gov

Music for the ache that never really goes away:

Speed and beauty, complementing each other:

Jubilant Sykes, Celebrated Opera Singer, Is Stabbed to Death

Very much saddened about this. Jubilant was an amazing baritone.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/a...

We glimpse small pieces of ourselves.
The rest remains in shadow,
not lost, just hidden.

I agree completely. Memorization is a core competency and should be pursued as part of mastery of the music, whether student or professional. Theory training and score analysis can unlock faster memorization.
In performance I lean toward not requiring it in general. Context is definitely important.

It’s hard to act and sing on stage with a score. Luckily no singer is on stage for every scene of an opera.
For a soloist, isn’t it common to sing the recital behind the music stand?
Rock bands utilize chord sheets, beat sheets, even lyric sheets.
Do you memorize for cello performances?

Like improvising, memorization should be viewed as a nice to have — not a requirement. It works for some performers, less so for others. If the musician performs safely, ie, doesn’t take many risks or push interpretive norms, memorization is easier. I’m of the no musical risks no reward camp.

Chopin’s Op. 25 No. 8 closes with a flourish that feels both disciplined and wild. Your hand plays sixths at breakneck speeds, everything pushed toward a final, clear landing.

Here’s the last passage.

vox philosophorum IV: Seeing and Being Seen On the beauty of what cannot be fully known

A look can undo you.
Not because it flatters,
but because it reaches someplace you didn’t expect anyone to find —
a quiet center you rarely show.

My new piece, Seeing and Being Seen, circles this moment from the inside:
www.sousarion.com/p/vox-philos...

vox philosophorum IV: Seeing and Being Seen On the beauty of what cannot be fully known

www.sousarion.com/p/vox-philos...

Yesterday’s piece was written in that space:
Seeing and Being Seen.
(link in next reply)

Most recognition happens in fragments.
A glance. A tone. A shift in someone’s face.
We reveal more than we intend, and far less than we think.

(2of4)

There are parts of ourselves we don’t fully see — until someone else reflects them back to us.
It can be unsettling or strangely intimate.

(1of4)

vox philosophorum IV: Seeing and Being Seen On the beauty of what cannot be fully known

Check it out here:

open.substack.com/pub/nostosto...

From my latest piece, Seeing and Being Seen.

We reveal more to each other than we intend — and far less than we believe.

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.