August 2009
4 posts
““In the past 13 months, police across the state have issued an estimated...”
– Cops issue six times as many cell phone tickets as usual - San Jose Mercury News
Morton Feldman and John Cage
Morton Feldman: Well, this weekend I was on the beach.
John Cage: Yes.
MF: … And on the beach these days are transistor radios.
JC: Yes.
MF: … blaring out rock ‘n’ roll.
JC: Yes.
MF: All over.
JC: Yes. And you didn’t enjoy it?
MF: Not particularly. I adjusted to it.
JC: How?
MF: By saying that… Well, I thought of the sun and the sea as a lesser evil.
JC: You know how I adjusted to that problem of the radio in the environment? Very much as the primitive people adjusted to the animals which frightened them, and which, probably as you say, were intrusions. They drew pictures of them on their caves. And so I simply made a piece using radios. Now, whenever I hear radios – even a single one, not just twelve at a time, as you must have heard on the beach, at least – I think, “Well, they’re just playing my piece.”
“In May, 84 phones were found throughout the prison system, the most for a single month. Two-thirds of those phones were found in a sweep at Hope Hall, a halfway house in Camden, Corrections spokesman Matt Schuman said.
East Jersey State Prison in Avenel led in drug seizures, with 52 from August 2008 to July of this year. South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton had the most non-drug...