Keith Adams
- Location
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Birthday
- December 23
- Bio
- Not a huge believer of pidgeonholing myself in 500 characters or less, so I'd point you to my blog to learn more about me. Thanks.
MY RECENT POSTS
- To be alone
May 28, 2012 08:20PM - Waiting for inspiration
writing a novel
May 25, 2012 11:26PM - The bug that almost ended my
career
May 24, 2012 06:54PM - Mahlerfest XXV
May 21, 2012 02:46AM - Mahler as Übermensch
May 17, 2012 12:04AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “I know exactly what you
mean :) thanks for
reading,
Keith”
May 25, 2012 01:33AM - “Why thank you, kind
sir!”
November 07, 2011 10:49PM - “Evelyn, so nice of you
to respond. Sometimes I feel
like I'm
living in the
wastel…”
October 11, 2011 01:01AM - “I'm sure this is very
helpful to many people, but am
I the
only one scratching
my…”
October 10, 2011 01:48AM - “That was meant to be
"fellow" not "fell", although
I like
the…”
October 09, 2011 08:34PM
Keith Adams's Links
MAY 28, 2012 8:20PM
To be alone
It's Memorial Day, and Ben has been working throughout the three
days of the holiday weekend. Today, I decided to get out of the
house for a while, to do some Mahler research for my book, and I'm
sitting, right now, in Starbucks in West Hollywood, with writing
pad and my…
MAY 25, 2012 11:26PM
Waiting for inspiration writing a novel
I guess there's been a bit of a hole in my life for a while. In
2010, my 1st book was published, and I spent much of the
year trying to publicize it (and not getting very far, although I
had some fun along the way.) By 2011, I'd deliberately put…
MAY 24, 2012 6:54PM
The bug that almost ended my career
Would that it were that writing won my wages. instead, computer coding creates my cash - and, well, leaving alliteration aside, the whole thing almost ended in a crash, the night before last.
My reputation at works rests partly on this program I wrote about three years ago. It's a black box,/…
MAY 21, 2012 2:46AM
Mahlerfest XXV
Ben and I were in Boulder for the 25th annual Mahlerfest. Yes, not
content to force Ben to listen to Mahler anecdotes as I read Mahler
books, and elicit enraptured responses from him to my favorite
moments in the Mahler symphonies that constantly flood through our
house these days, I dragged…
MAY 17, 2012 12:04AM
Mahler as Übermensch
Noun.Ãœbermensch - a person with
great powers and abilities
(Manipulated from an image I found at http://nonciclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:Ubermensch.jpg)
The more I study the life of the composer Gustav Mahler, as I do resea…
demigod, superman, leader - a person who
rules
or guides or inspires others.
(Manipulated from an image I found at http://nonciclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:Ubermensch.jpg)The more I study the life of the composer Gustav Mahler, as I do resea…
MAY 5, 2012 9:56PM
Art and Science Outing to Pasadena
This afternoon we went with our friend Steve on a leisurely
art and science tour in Pasadena, taking in the Norton Simon museum,
and an exhibit of space photography at the Art
Center College of Design.
Ben in the space photography exhibit in PasadenaI
was in the mood to see Impressionist paintin…
Ben in the space photography exhibit in PasadenaI
was in the mood to see Impressionist paintin…
APRIL 30, 2012 11:06PM
Voice control during micturation: a rare syndrome observed in 47-year old gay men in Los Angeles
Fren J Micturation
and Tract Inspect 2012 Jan-Apr;9(1):83-7.
Voice control during micturation: a rare syndrome observed in 47-year old gay men in Los Angeles.
Adams K, Yurck AA, Krabbes XX.
Source
Department of Tract Inspection, UXMICT, Korle-bu, Paris, France. keith.adams@.uxmict.edu
Abstract
Giant m/…
Voice control during micturation: a rare syndrome observed in 47-year old gay men in Los Angeles.
Adams K, Yurck AA, Krabbes XX.
Source
Department of Tract Inspection, UXMICT, Korle-bu, Paris, France. keith.adams@.uxmict.edu
Abstract
Giant m/…
APRIL 29, 2012 9:18PM
Waiting for inspiration: writing a novel
I guess there's been a bit of a hole in my life for a while. In
2010, my 1st book was published, and I spent much of the
year trying to publicize it (and not getting very far, although I
had some fun along the way.) By 2011, I'd deliberately put…
APRIL 29, 2012 3:21AM
The true altruist
I play bridge twice a week at the Beverly Hills Bridge Club, an
inglorious establishment in the basement of a tennis club largely
populated by people aged 75 and above. It's a mixed bag: many of
them truly are lovely old ladies and gentleman, but there are some
ornery critters, and…
APRIL 27, 2012 10:26PM
Depression and the Calculus of Oblivion
Like most people, I've a lifetime of expertize in human relations,
and eight years of intensive study of one person in particular. Yet
my prediction for how my boyfriend Ben would react when we
discussed one of the biggest taboos the other day was completely
off the mark.
(The Holocaust Memorial,…
(The Holocaust Memorial,…
APRIL 21, 2012 8:53PM
The sense of place
Our dining table, this morningI never know how
honest to be in this blog. What I'm about to write is a risk.It was a rainy afternoon at DFW, last Sunday, with all flights delayed in and out. Feeling flat and hollowed out, I tried to keep my mind busy in the/…
APRIL 1, 2012 8:03PM
Why Listen to Gustav Mahler?
I've never been able to put into words why Gustav
Mahler's symphonies affect me so deeply. It's as if Mahler is
at the peak of the mountain, and everybody else - including
composers I love, such as Liszt and Debussy - are only half way up
the flanks.
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MARCH 22, 2012 12:55PM
The feeling of what happens
Today is fairly typical of the last 1,000 days give or take.
I wake up and wonder where the little dog is buried. I feel
stirrings in two parts of the bed. (Well three if you count ...
well, let's not go there.) One of them is undoubtedly Ben, and
soon enough the…
MARCH 17, 2012 6:59PM
2nd Gallery of Framed Photos at Home
This photo of the gallery links to a clickable one
that brings up the actual framed photos
FEBRUARY 29, 2012 10:15AM
The Hut on the Mountain: Mahler in North Carolina
I feel good. There, I've said it. I don't normally gush, and that's
about as far as it goes. But I feel this way so rarely, that it
would anger the gods of karma were I not to say so.
(For relevance, see
later.)
Another cliche is forming: it's the little things. I'm…
(For relevance, see
later.)Another cliche is forming: it's the little things. I'm…
FEBRUARY 19, 2012 6:11PM
The San Francisco Effect
It was around this time ten years ago that I finally began to come
out of a long slumber. Ten years before that, I'd gotten out of a
horrible destructive relationship with an artist I'd met shortly
after moving to San Francisco. I'd developed a serious depression
(my first), and already…
FEBRUARY 8, 2012 6:16PM
What they don't tell you about eyeglass chains ...
I finally gave in and bought eyeglass chains the other day (AKA
"granny" chains), since I'm getting tired of constantly finding
myself in a different part of the house having left my reading
glasses in the other room. For the last year or two, I've
compensated for that by leaving cheap…
FEBRUARY 4, 2012 12:26PM
Mahler in the Morning
Ben is away, so my ear plugs didn't prevent
our big old St. Bernard, Indira, from waking me up this morning, as
she scratched at the gate which is supposed - theoretically - to
keep her far away enough from me in the night that her various
sound violations -… Read full post »
JANUARY 18, 2012 11:23PM
Does it Have a Pulse
I'm a bit of a Mahler nut, to put it mildly. I know all of his symphonies, most of them intimately, particularly the 1st three, then 5th, 7th and 9th. I've seen them all live several times each, particularly the 1st and the 5th which are the most frequently performed. But/…
DECEMBER 17, 2011 8:32PM
Do you Hear Voices: Julian Jaynes' Bicameral Mind Revisited
What I like most about reading stimulating books like Reflections
on the Dawn of Consciousness:Julian Jaynes's Bicameral Mind Theory
Revisited, is that they're ... well ... stimulating. They
make you explore ideas, and come to your own conclusions and
flights of fancy. If you're a writer, they also m…
DECEMBER 3, 2011 3:13PM
Yearning and Memories in Washington DC
It's the first time I've been in a conservative sex shop, I thought
to myself. But that's Washington.
I've been once again in Raleigh, on business, for two weeks. On Friday morning, I was working out in my hotel gym, listening to one of my all time favorite songs, Left to my… Read full post »
I've been once again in Raleigh, on business, for two weeks. On Friday morning, I was working out in my hotel gym, listening to one of my all time favorite songs, Left to my… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 26, 2011 9:52PM
The Set of the Shoulders
Do you strut, or do you slink? Do you smirk, or slump? Do you
occupy the sidewalk, or hide in the trees?
How you present yourself in public - how you carry yourself: this, to me, is a fascinating question, capable of telling you a lot about yourself just as easily leading…
How you present yourself in public - how you carry yourself: this, to me, is a fascinating question, capable of telling you a lot about yourself just as easily leading…
Mottled leaves on gray gravel, study. No. 2644.
Monstrous water lilly type thing.
Post touch football. Wish I'd made that pass.
Ardent follower searches for something to say to make it feel
better.
A pretty collection of leaves that just happened to
be lying around atop a pillar.
Last chance to be green,/…
OCTOBER 30, 2011 10:45PM
Gurumarka meet Sehnsucht
Where should I begin? With Gurumarka, or Sehnsucht? My late
"Blues Spring" (that is a short-lived but exciting break
from a two-year-old depression), or my recent accidental
destruction of a two terabyte database at one of the largest
companies in Brazil (and one of our most impor…
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