rating scale:

4 1/2 stars - Will forever please me...and is imperfect perfection in terms of my personal enjoyment.
4 stars - An excellent piece of work...but has a few shortcomings.
3 stars - A weak effort when measured against other efforts.

My motto about my preferred musical formats:

Plastic is fantastic
Digital is divine
but Vinyl is becoming my style

Aphorism relating to my username:

"Dilettantes! Dilettantes! - this is the derogatory cry those who apply themselves to art or science for the sake of gain raise against those who pursue it for the love of it and pleasure of it. This derogation rests on their vulgar conviction that no one would take up a thing seriously unless prompted to it by want, hunger, or some other kind of greediness. The public has the same out-look and consequently holds the same opinion, which is the origin of its universal respect for 'the professional' and its mistrust of the dilettante. The truth, however, is that to the dilettante the thing is the end, while to the professional as such it is the means; and only he who is directly interested in a thing, and occupies himself with it from love of it, will pursue it with entire seriousness. It is from such as these, and not from wage-earners, that the greatest things have always come."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

My Music:
http://soundcloud.com/free-fettered-spirit
http://tree4.bandcamp.com/

laugh laugh laugh
it's the only way
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to vanquish dismay

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at the cosmic joke
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thus the gods have spoke

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till laughing heals
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to mock the "real"

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till severity drains
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so levity remains

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till heaviness resounds
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to preserve the profound

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at the austere poses
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at the tongues and noses

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in sorrow's eye
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at yesterday's sigh

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with the chaotic flow
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at the ceaseless grow

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at the good and bad
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at the passing fad

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with the entire race
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in your private space

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at the circular course
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at the becoming force

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at the partial life
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at the daily strife

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at the cards dealt
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at the pains felt

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at laughing still
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with knowing skill

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as attack and defense
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for now and hence

AG