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Woah! How come no one has heard of this guy?

via Daring Fireball

A great article by Daniel Jalkut about how we understand the word “free.” How we use words ends up defining them.

via Monoscope, via Wooster, via Eyeteeth

There’s some weird ideas in here, such as “graffiti doesn’t damage anything” and that in order for art to be pure, there must not be money involved (Barry says it near the end. I think it’s totally bogus). That said, it is an intriguing profile of two artists and just good documentary storytelling.

via Coudal.com

Looks freaking amazing. Trick is figuring out how to see it out here in Denver.

I thought you’d enjoy this John Rueben music video created by the wonderfully talented creative genius called Chris Oatley

via Mises.org - George Reisman makes a pretty compelling case for the reinstitution of the gold standard:

Needless to say, such a system would not only end the threat of deflation, but, equally important, it could end the threat of inflation as well. For if it were actually followed, the increase in the quantity of money would be limited to the increase in the supply of gold, which is extremely modest compared with increases in the supply of irredeemable paper money. This is because gold is rare in nature and costly to extract. Irredeemable paper money in contrast is virtually costless to produce and is potentially as abundant as the supply of currency-sized sheets of paper, indeed, as abundant as the size of the largest number that can be printed on all such sheets of paper.

This is an issue that is very much on my mind these days. I think that the majority of our country’s problems are rooted in the stealing of the poor’s wealth through the invisible force of inflation. The popular solution is to redistribute money through taxation via free social programs. The problem is that redistribution doesn’t actually encourage individual financial responsibility, but rather individual entitlement (which I’m sure we can all agree is a very bad thing).I could go on and on about this, but that’s for another post when I’m not running late to work. In the meantime, go read George Reisman’s article.

via Daring Fireball

Short, but extremely insightful. Here’s a snippet:

Reading some of today’s news, it suddenly struck me: we’re living in the age of the anti-Cassandra.

Cassandra had the gift of prophecy — she saw, correctly, what was coming — but was under a curse: nobody would believe her.

Today, our public discourse is dominated by people who have been wrong about everything — but are still, mysteriously, treated as men of wisdom, whose judgments should be believed. Those who were actually right about the major issues of the day can’t get a word in edgewise.

Read the rest of the article…

via John Mayer’s blog

Luke Flowers, Kate-Laurel Smith, and Beki Hemingway are playing at Stella’s (1400 block S. Pearl Street, Denver) at 8 pm Friday, March 28. I’ll be playing percussion with both Luke and Kate. And you… should come!

I ran into Kate last summer when she opened up at a Bill Mallonee show, and started playing with her almost immediately. It’s kind of a mash of folk, blues and jazz with influences from Patty Griffin and Sarah McLachlan to Nora Jones. I’ve developed a deep respect for her songwriting and voice, and I think you’ll do the same.

Luke and I have run in the same circles with the same people for quite some time, mostly our shared connection with the Enter the Worship Circle crew. However, we never managed to meet until last Fall when he played with Kate and me in Manitou Springs. He is a multi-crazy-talented artist, and I highly suggest you go check out his website right now.

Hope to see you at Stella’s.

Well, welcome to the newly rethought JoshWilson.org. I’ve got a whole lot of things to talk about, but we’ll get to that. This is more of a fancy-schmancy “Hey look! New something-or-other from Josh” type of post for all two of you paying attention. I aim to change that, by the way. But slowly, slowly there son. That’ll all come to pass in time.