Seems like I’ve said this a thousand times, but it’s awful dead around here. I wish I could make things a little more interesting to the point of where DIALOG is stimulated. Oh well, I hope that whatever it is that people are doing, that every once in a while it has something to do with loving music and even better yet, spreading that love. Music transcends everything, race, religion, politics, everything. A shared experience, a mutual feeling, gotta love it. Even music that subjectively sucks is redeeming to someone, notes and lyrics that speak to us in a way that nothing else can. reading this book right now about metaphorical interpretation of the bible and basically the author points out that literal truth does not even hold a candle to the spotlight that is metaphorical truth. This guy here really touches on that for me. Maybe “touches” is too superficial, more like a stake through the heart. I’m being redundant because I posted this on facebook, but if I could I would make this mandatory viewing in my own personal fascist state, you would be tied to a chair with those things on your eye to make them stay open, ala Malcolm McDowell in Clockwork Orange.
MUSTARD RELICS
I totally agree, music transcends. not sure what subjectivly sucks means anymore, but pretty sure i own some of it. I am not on facebook( paranoia) and the internet on the ship will not let me see what you put up. Sucks to be me, huh?
I really like the way you have changed your site. you are getting good.
Thanks
Super stoked that you still make your way over here Brian despite the fact that you have obstacles…thanx for that brother. And thanx too for the compliment, trying to keep this place fresh and having fun doing it.
dude, I know what you mean, so far as the lacking dialog, but keep in mind that you still have readers that dig what you write and post and they just aren’t the commenting type. I don’t get shit for comments on my blog, but I keep writing anyway, mainly just to have an outlet that isn’t associated with facebook. I remember that the first 7 or 8 years of the internet, I didn’t want to be involved with email or chatrooms or ANYTHING – I was a virtual Australian when it came to internet use. Now, I feel like it’s taken over my life and it’s all tabloid-news-style BULLSHIT and self-promoting by insecure losers, but there are a few gems online, like Mustard relics
Thank you too for the compliment Ed, although I wasn’t fishing for those. The whole facebook generation has me a little jealous I suppose, but it’s all just surface stuff, the torture of a thousand cuts. Here it really is about being just another guy all kinds of things going, but the bottom line is a love of music. I spend too much time on the computer, usually multi tasking, but always with the media player going with the tunes blazing no matter what I’m doing. Every record I listen to for the first time gets recorded.
Don’t stop being on the internet Ed, maybe I’m reading too much into a couple of things you’ve said here and at your place, it is the only way for us to connect.
p.s. right on with the metaphorical truth spiel – something I think often but forget to speak about. I assume you are into the Gnostics, being that you are scholarly in your religious knowledge. It blows me away that in this technological age, we have slid so far backwards in terms of our spiritual growth, not just in America but all over the world.
Isn’t it funny how our extremists (literalists) don’t like the other extrtemists around the world. It’s a shame that is what people take for spirituality today, if that’s all there is I’d have nothing to do with any of it. The book I’m reading basically says things that I have thought for a long time but have never been able to adequately articulate. His impression is that the metaphorical movement is starting to become more mainstream, but the literalists seem to be all we hear about.
I lurk…
Going through a phase where I crave silence, so haven’t listened to much. I look out my window and my eyes translate it to music in my head, either that or I’m going crazy
Being a bird guy, you are probably crazy as a loon.
Not sure if I crave silence at any other time than when things get two noisy. There’s a couple that live across the street from my office that like to get real loud, come to think of it they’re loud all the time, no music in their noise, I find myself just wanting to tell them to shut the fuck up. Keep lurking…
I’d be proud to be more like a loon!