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Why a music blog? Have you ever noticed how many people relate over music? The music we listen to is a window into our moods, our souls. Always temporal, evolving. One day it's the beat, the rhythm, the melody. Another day it's the lyrics. With it's ability to carry us away into another time and place, a cherished memory or a fantasy escape, music helps us transcend or endure the mundane. Music helps us make sense of painful experiences or confusing emotions, or safely, cathartically re-experience those feelings. And it has the transformative power to alter our mood for the better or worse. The kind of music we enjoy is a very personal thing, a matter of taste that cannot be imposed by another, but grows instead out of our own histories and sensibilities. And yet what pleasure to find others who like what you like -- you can share aural space with them without getting a headache or losing your mind. You can lead each other to discover new artists and genres. If you take the time to read all or the occasional entry, I hope you find a treat in this log of tunes.
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Wednesday, January 28, 2004 At the Art House, the current theme is Love, Chocolate and Stillettos. I went with stillettos, which I think are generally evil. This is the most neutral of the pieces I did. Two others, an assemblage and a collage, are in the show right now, so that is cool, my first pieces in a show! The others are much more pointed, so to speak, in their message. The next show is Death and Taxes. There's been so much dying in the past year or two that I've had plenty of material in my mind, and it's good putting it into art, but it also seems very morbid, and perhaps, disrespectful. Although knowing them, the people who've died probably wouldn't object to anything I've done. But their families might not like it. I was showing people one I did of Thew the other night, it's an upbeat painting. But I didn't have the guts to show them the more morbid cartoonish painting with the car and the hose. Maybe it's not about guts, but about being sensitive to their feelings?
music music music, I'm just playing the random cycle on the jukebox. It's been playing a lot of the stranger stuff, the atmospheric and eerie Voice of Eye cd keeps to be getting airplay. And there's some short story reading apparently on a SXSW cd that I just have no patience for. I mean a tune is a tune and a story is a story, and I want to listen to tunes. Really I have no recommendations at the moment. This is a relatively dry period for me in terms of discovering new and exciting music, but I am happily enjoying what I have. Just as well, it's cheaper that way.
Friday, January 16, 2004
Happy 2004! it's fun having the cds rotating again, also finally picked up the best of Fleetwood Mac double album, it's good of course. And Lauren Hill unplugged, which I like though it's not the kickass album her Miseducation album was. And what about 69 Love Songs by the Magnetic Fields? Much fun, very silly, clever and catchy. How can you go wrong with a song like "Fido Your Leash is Too Long." Though I only have one third of the trilogy, Ninnah has another and someone else the third. I don't think I've caught a live show since Chainsaw Dupont, though I should at least pop in downstairs at HOB.
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