Music

I’ve kinda believed this for a while…but Scientific American has published a quick little article describing a paper in Brain and Cognition which confirms it. The found that musicians were more creative…as defined by being able to find alternative uses for household objects. On average, they came up with 14 more uses than nonmusicians could.

I’ve always believed that music was a fundamental abstraction of patterns and pattern recognition. And to me, thats kinda what creativity and intelligence are…the ability to understand and exploit underlying patterns.

Wow.  Leroi Moore, the sax/flute/pennywhistle/etc. player of the Dave Matthews Band, has died at the age of 47.  That sucks.  My thoughts are with his friends and family.  A tremendous loss.  He was a true talent and a hell of a guy.

(Photo ripped from dmband.com)

This is the hot shit.

That’s Dave Matthews.  In 1992.  On VHS.

If you didn’t know, the name of that song is Blue Water Baboon Farm.  I’ve been using “baboonfarmer” as my alias since about 1994.