How did that get past the censors?" Watching the singer Rodriguez recently, at Town Hall, I had a strange corollary experience: I was seeing someone perform a body of work that was in some ways dated, with its lyrical references to "scenes" and "acid heads," not to mention our decades' worth of hearing Dylan, Donovan, and everyone else Rodriguez might glancingly evoke.
To me, that's a story worth telling and worth hearing about.
Thus, hearing technologies should provide a remarkable compensation of hearing deficits for people with hearing loss.
"Noise bubble" is certainly the word for it – the enthusiasts who predicted that the internet would democratise music clearly didn't foresee a future of plodding through dozens of homemade YouTube versions of Call Me Maybe in search of things worth hearing.
Even if he has a bad night and plays to a fraction of his potential, it's still worth hearing one of the last of the jazz giants blow his horn.
Until he stands up and says: "My name is Charlie Sheen and I am not just an addict, but also a misogynistic parasite and asshole", I won't believe he's capable of saying a single word about anything that's worth hearing, least of all on a subject as sensitive as HIV and Aids.
Back home, your nuances are understood, you are a member of a friendship group with specific contributions to make, with opinions worth hearing, and jokes worth laughing at.
And most of all I loved that I had a way to hear what some of those people — a self-selecting sample, of course, but still worth hearing — had to say, not as part of a stale post-speech analysis of public response by a news organization, but entirely on my own, like we were all listening in on the same enormous telephone.
Benita, with her civil servant's, non-party mind would surely have an autonomous, practical critique of all of them - one worth hearing, very likely.
It's a story that was worth writing and that is still worth hearing.
He has had more lives, and has more stories, than Scheherazade, and every single one of them is worth hearing.
