hmmm…
we really should question the fact that
1. when minimum wages go up,
2. the ONLY results ever talked about appear to be
3. prices going up.
I propose something less entitled, and different:
pay the executives less.
why is there this default assumption that whatEVER we do, we can’t take ANY MONEY from the people who have BUTTLOADS of it?
don’t answer.
just do it.
there is no one path through life.
just try something.
hearing the intro to THE GRID from KORAANISQATSI (Thank You to the friend who hipped me to this so many eons ago. went to NYC and SAW it there together. I later saw it at least two other times live.
I’m on the verge of having a PHILIP GLASS kinda night.
let not the whims and ways and “decisions” of society (within the law of course) define you,
such things were not “designed” with YOU in mind, ESPECIALLY if you aren’t a typical “just get by, fit in, conformist/consumer” type.
and fucks sake, don’t EXPECT much from these “societal structures,” they don’t exist for you, they exist for AVERAGE people.
(when the fuck did I become, such an elitist? (I love it:), so fuck you.)
if you expect fulfillment from, or ANYTHING from such things, and you happen to be rather unique, you will be disappointed plenty, as those of us of this nature have long known inside, and out, based on our lives and how others treat us and what happens when we simply exist amongst these mere mortals, heh.
Self-Esteem = UP, today.
make your own (things.)
BE.
The Boss.
disclaimer: calling people “Mere Mortals” is merely a poetic way of referring to some people as if they are less interesting than I find myself, sometimes. when in a good mood… when in a bad mood, I call them normal and me weird. naturally, the other way (the good mood way) is happier. for me.
Tagged Wagner cause I think he felt similar.
it isn’t about spectacle.
it’s about substance.
it isn’t about power, money, control, or fear, such things are meaningless.
it is about interest, stimulation, imagination, and being in the fucking moment.
I’m lucky….
that I have strong interests… I can’t bear to imagine (nor can I imagine in itself)
how boring and dis-engaging life would be without such things.
I’m also ill-equiped to mentor people who don’t have such interests, as I’ve NO idea what they should do other than GET some of said interests…
and mine are I believe a function of being ADHD and smart, so…
don’t know what non-adhd’ers ought do.
but if you IS adhd, I know what should do.
come party and music make with me.
dude, I’m making some parts (string ones) to a piece for rock band with some strings. (for a high school.)
(It’s work.)
man, my god, this piece is a lesson in how NOT to write for orchestra!
my GOD-
each instrument has un UNCHANGING part, always in 8 bar groups, often the same ones repeated later, NO variation added EVER. no interesting voicings, just roots and 5ths, etc.
all the instruments of an orchestra, and EVERYTHING is just doubled doubled doubled, no one “switches roles” ever, no “have the trumpets play E and G HERE, THEN have the violas do it, while the trumpets play “oooh I know, G and B!”)
it’s COMPLETELY unimaginative (and very easy to copy, for it’s just endless repetition (and no, it’s not minimalism, it’s just very very boring music.)
I can’t believe people pay money, much less tons of it, to hear such crap. my opinion, yes.
it’s as if someone with no understanding of nor INTEREST in orchestration, harmony, or voicing, took a two-line keyboard part and copied everything note for note without any THOUGHT to ALL instruments, and THEN thinks THEY KNOW HOW TO WRITE FOR ORCHESTRA.
(maybe that’s just the style, yes, but I don’t like no such style.)
AND THEN PEOPLE IN THE GENERAL POPULATION AGREE, either cause they don’t know better (cause maybe they aren’t exposed to more interesting things, or at least a broader variety of things, or because they don’t actually listen, and just do what the media and tells them, or what their peers tell them, or because THIS REALLY “IT” what they are interested in (doubtful), or still also perhaps because their attention spans are really short (hey, I’m ADHD, I’d know.)
but no…. (see addendum)
AND PEOPLE HIRE THEM BECAUSE THEY DON’T KNOW ANY BETTER, NOR CARE, CAUSE IT’S ALL ABOUT PROFIT, AND THE HELL WITH CULTURE OR ANYTHING INTERESTING OR ARTISTIC!
I’M OFFENDED THAT THIS PASSES FOR ART!
CAUSE IT’S BLOOOOOOODY GARBAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
…
this is something I hate about plenty pop music too. and edm.
they don’t bother to try to do anything INTERESTING.
the hell with ’em.
I don’t need that.
people HAVE done interesting things.
be one of those.
leave these pathetic disinterested fools behind.
Addendum, written weeks later:
SOoooo that was pretty spiteful, yeah.
regarding the bit about people maybe having short attention spans? no, that can’t be it. they say “I’VE” got one, but only with things I don’t find interesting.
either many people don’t find music that is “at all substantive” interesting (by MY standards, anyway,)
or they simply aren’t listening, really, at all…
tagged burningman because they play tons of EDM there, and I hate edm. yep:)
tagged African Music cause in IT, you REALLY have to listen CAREFULLY all the time, for various changes that happen, whenever the leader indicates.
tagged Minimalism, cause in IT, a similar thing to African music happens (in Steve Reich, at least.) some Philip Glass too, in different but similar ways.
Tagged Music Theory and Harmony, cause I feel the palette of harmony used in a lot of popular music is WAY WAY simple and frankly, not that interesting. not to me.
Tagged WAGNER for a similar reason (he had phat harmonies, man.
Tagged Philosophy cause, as usual, this IS part of MY philosophy:)
Tagged Adhd (duh)
Tagged Frustrations about Women cause I don’t see me being with any woman who greatly likes music that I find way boring. and yep, I’m alone. what’s your point?:)
while construction (of windows) is taking place on my building, the downstairs people were playing COUNTRY music, on guitars n shit.
ouch.
then they played “oldies” (they kind from the 50s.)
they played House of the Rising Sun, and many others.
however,
they didn’t end on an a minor becoming an a minor 7 becoming C Major though… (I went and told them this after.)
what’s worse, the construction on our building with the hammering, or that bloody COUNTRY music being played LIVE one floor below?
hey, hey, nothin’ wrong with country music, it just ain’t my taste, ya dig.
one thing my blog (this one:
http://www.highstimulation.com
and facebook itself
is NOT about, is entertainment.
AND YET
I bet it IS fairly entertaining.
to me anyway