Has anyone out there succeeded in installing pandoc or otherwise converting tex to docx? I get missing packages error messages when I try to install pandoc.

"Half a century later it still sounds crazy in a good way. The organized mayhem starts with Dolphy's tunes, often featuring wide, wide leaps in the melody and ratchet-gear rhythms. His composition "Straight Up and Down" was inspired by the careful walk of a drunk striving to stay upright. He improvised with that same kind of angular energy, and an excitable tone like a goosed goose."
http://www.npr.org/2014/02/25/282508306/still-out-to-lunch-50-years-later