• Reason #1: Einstein didn’t say it. Though the quote is often attributed to him (and sometimes Mark Twain or Benjamin Franklin), there is no recorded evidence of Einstein himself ever having made this remark. In fact, the earliest documented instance of it being used is allegedly in a 1981 Narcotics Anonymous pamphlet. It also…
Hey, readers of (In)Sitze and music lovers! I made a list of my Top 10 favorite albums to come out in 2025, with listening links (YouTube or Bandcamp) for each one and brief writeups of my impressions. The format is similar to last year’s. There’s a broad variety of genres in here, so if you’re…
If technique were the only path to prestige, we would be suffocated by a pantheon of power players all getting their shred-on with no recourse to creative spirit. Granted, when it comes to music’s strength, part of that which mobilizes bodies to do more than dance, i.e., excites novel countercultural movements at large, has historically…
