July 31, 2004

Brain Jazz


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WE DON'T FILL IN A FORMULA of departments and features every week. We're jamming.

We just make up our content on the fly. No going back. No edits. Mainlining other's thoughts.

It's an infinite combo of brain musicians high on brain jazz.

If you can type and have something to say, you can sit in and jam.

You can play.

ANY NUMBER can play a number and that number is always an unknown number. But if you can play unknown numbers you can sit in on the session.

If not, you can just login and kick back and watch the others go at it.

You never know what you're going to get, or which way the next person is going to bend the thread.

You're just there, in real time, and saying, really, whatever comes into your head.

Sometimes its flat, even more often predictable, and, yes, it can get really boring, just like a lot of modern jazz.

But still, there are times -- rarer now to be sure -- when the thing just takes off

And you find yourself thinking things you never thought you'd think and saying things you never planned to say to a lot of people who are coming right back at you, jamming harder, seeing if you can all, somehow, take it higher.

Not to be profound, just to take it around. Your in a Doctor Strange brain groove and you've got lift-off.

Have this happen a couple of time and you're hooked, man. Like me, man. I've been hooked for years, man, but it doesn't rule my life, man.

Posted by Vanderleun at July 31, 2004 11:16 AM
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Was it Sullivan that called it "a giant communal brain"? Hmmm ... brain.

Posted by: Flint at August 4, 2004 10:03 AM

Hey Daddy-o, love your jazz riffolla. Just checking in to say hope you are digging your break and everything's groovey. You are seriously laying it down, baby. Can't wait till you get back swinging. Till then stay cool mah bah rah thah....

Posted by: Doug Anderson at August 10, 2004 7:31 PM

Hey Daddy-o, love your jazz riffolla. Just checking in to say hope you are digging your break and everything's groovey. You are seriously laying it down, baby. Can't wait till you get back swinging. Till then stay cool mah bah rah thah....

Posted by: Doug Anderson at August 10, 2004 7:31 PM