A list of items that might have been their own weblog posts had I been more inclined to stay focused enough to write over the last few weeks
28 March 2006 | adbusters, guitar hero, logo, music genone project | 2 Comments
- If there’s one thing that makes you pine for the earlier days of the internet, it’s shooting a mist of saline solution to treat a sore throat and swollen sinuses from dry air, and the rememberance of the Nori.
- Possibly London in my near future. Possibly for months. It would be nice to know if and when, so I can plan the next few months of my life.
- Rocking the Guitar Hero with my band Venti Fellatio. Never was much of a Helmet fan, but Unsung is so much fun to pretend that you’re playing.
- The more things change, the more things stay the same.
- I’ve been watching a lot of movies on Logo lately. So many good films I hadn’t seen before. Also, why didn’t anyone tell me The Sum of Us was so funny?
- I’m glad I never fell in love with Adbusters. In the March/April 2006 issue, there’s a blurb about the Music Genome Project‘s efforts to categorize and classify hundreds of thousands of songs. Suddenly, it turns into an admonishment for the effort, saying, “But aren’t we sullying the sacred language of music when we size it up and compartmentalize it? Do we really want to subject it to the rhythmic equivalent to DNA research? William Wordsworth warned us about putting our faith in science anad technology: ‘Our meddling intellect missahpes the beauteous forms of things; we murder to dissect.'” Are you fucking kidding me? What, every music compositional major is killing music? Am I strangling Shakespeare by pointing out a lot of his stuff is in iambic pentameter? Is every art history class torturing every work that comes under scrutiny? When we study and understand that which has come before, humanity is able to consciously create meaningful art. Music is no exception. You would think a magazine dedicated to craft and analysis would understand that.
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I’m sorry! I’m sorry I never told you The Sum of Us was so funny! :'(
The characters were so likeable. I had been wanting to see it, admittedly, for the Russell-Crowe-playing-a-gay-man factor, but his character was an adorable guy just in general. And his dad kicks ass.