http://www.karenandthedragon.com a human performance site Mon, 09 Apr 2012 01:10:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.karenandthedragon.com/sirens-and-shipwrecks/ http://www.karenandthedragon.com/sirens-and-shipwrecks/#comments Sun, 08 Apr 2012 19:42:07 +0000 Peter http://www.karenandthedragon.com/?p=5346 “…she said we were to keep clear of the Sirens, who sit and sing most beautifully in a field of flowers; but she said I might hear them myself so long as no one else did. Therefore, take me and bind me to the crosspiece half way up the mast; bind me as I stand upright, with a bond so fast that I cannot possibly break away, and lash the rope’s ends to the mast itself. If I beg ...]]> http://www.karenandthedragon.com/sirens-and-shipwrecks/feed/ 1 http://www.karenandthedragon.com/i-was-not-magnificent/ http://www.karenandthedragon.com/i-was-not-magnificent/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:10:22 +0000 Peter http://www.karenandthedragon.com/?p=5269 In these miserable moments of fever and phlegm, it is perhaps easy to let your mind wander, wondering whether the work you do has any value,  or whether you’re really as good as you think you are.
It’s the latter question ...]]> http://www.karenandthedragon.com/i-was-not-magnificent/feed/ 4 http://www.karenandthedragon.com/muse-hero-inspiration/ http://www.karenandthedragon.com/muse-hero-inspiration/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:53:48 +0000 Peter http://www.karenandthedragon.com/?p=5198 “Way, way back in the beginning…there was someone vitally important to me…that was a huge inspiration…”
Trent Reznor (NIN, London, UK. July 15, 2009)

So, who is it? Who’s your muse? Your hero? Your inspiration?
I look and listen for the answers to these questions a lot. I watch for them in the books I read, the movies I watch and in the music I listen to. I’m fascinated by the things that motivate people and the forces ...]]> http://www.karenandthedragon.com/muse-hero-inspiration/feed/ 0 http://www.karenandthedragon.com/the-sound-in-my-head/ http://www.karenandthedragon.com/the-sound-in-my-head/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:14:15 +0000 Peter http://www.karenandthedragon.com/?p=5103 “Another long flight. Another horrible in-flight movie.”
This time, thankfully, I was completely wrong.
“It Might Get Loud” is a documentary by David Guggenheim about three, iconic, rock guitarists: Jimmy Page (Led Zepplin), The Edge (U2), and Jack White (White Stripes, The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather).
In the opening scene, Jack White bustles about an old, run down farmhouse. A few cows look on and moo their curiosity. In the ...]]> http://www.karenandthedragon.com/the-sound-in-my-head/feed/ 0 http://www.karenandthedragon.com/like-spinning-plates/ http://www.karenandthedragon.com/like-spinning-plates/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:22:22 +0000 Peter http://www.karenandthedragon.com/?p=5030 A few years ago, I purchased their 5th album, “Amnesiac”. And like most Radiohead albums, it took a number of listens before the tracks grew on me and I felt I understood what the band was trying to do. One track, however, intrigued me far ...]]> http://www.karenandthedragon.com/like-spinning-plates/feed/ 1 http://www.karenandthedragon.com/wouldnt-take-nothin-2/ http://www.karenandthedragon.com/wouldnt-take-nothin-2/#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:00:09 +0000 Peter http://www.karenandthedragon.com/?p=5180 I am motivated by one ...]]> http://www.karenandthedragon.com/wouldnt-take-nothin-2/feed/ 1