somber-and-sonorous asked: Most remarkable musician (profound influence, relevance, etc.) and philosopher?

Answer:

Good questions.

I think Tom Waits is just about as good as it gets. Marc Ribot is consistently good on just about everything he touches, including Mule Variations. I’ve been listening to a lot of Ryan Adams recently as well. Seeing him in St. Louis tomorrow actually. pumped for that. I like the classical/romantic period as well. Chopin. American Jazz… too many. Tom Waits is my final answer. 

Philosophers is harder… I really enjoyed this seminar I took on G.E.M. Anscombe. I’ve read a lot of John Searle. Wittgenstein is a little obvious, don’t you think? I’m reading a lot of Aristotle this semester, and brushing up on some meta-ethics and contemporary epistemology…stuff about seemings and memory mostly. Those things are all most remarkable for me at the moment. 

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