Music Thoughts
you got no right LABELING me with a DISORDER.
FUCK you.
just cause you’re more COMMON and AVERAGE than me doesn’t mean SHIT.
I don’t have ATTENTION disorder, YOU have
LOW fucking standards, and BEING ALL TOO ORDINARY AND BORING disorder.
*I am told, by a commenter (facebook friend) that
“this is the best thing I have heard from you all year.”
and incidentally,
this is properly, when stated more eloquently, called
THE BACKWARDS-BIZZARO THEORY (or backwards BIZARRO (sp) theory.
I was gonna go see Joe LaBarbara tonight…. now I gotta WORK instead (and by work, I mean compose the ending to a Marching band show with the only stipulations being that it finishes the last song (which I WROTE) and uses some of the material from the first song (which I also WROTE.)
if you can consider “composing music” to be work, and if you can consider marching band music to in fact be “music” (hey, I like the stuff, sometimes, and I can say more for it than “at least, my TASTE”, in country, or folk (nothing against them, they just…. don’t much “speak” to me, but that says little about them and everything about me, just like people I’m not attracted to, they are fine, I just, don’t want em that way.
#onlyhuman:)
dear various forms of popular music:
please stop using such a limited selection of lame harmony.
thank you
me.
I just used the term
“V for Vendettafication”
to describe a chord progression.
HELL yeah
it was the kind where one note is sustained, and several chords, all of which CONTAIN said note, are played under/above it.
such as
A is the note…
am (a is the root
B7 (a is the minor 7th)
FM7 (a is the major 3rd)
DM add 9. A is the perfect 5th.)
(this is actually from V for Vendetta (“Evey Reborn”) (though similar progressions are found throughout the ENTIRE soundtrack…(“I want this message to be heard throughout the ENTIRE INTerlink!”)
sigh… reading some friends’s posts (none of you who are seeing this in particular (I hid the people who it “really” applies to)
I’m glad that I don’t really care about being famous, or perceived in a certain way, and that what really matters (hopefully I’m “not” kidding myself (I might indeed be, the mind is sneaky like that (I’d be lying if I said I “didn’t” “somewhat enjoy” people’s admiration (but it doesn’t have to be millions of average people)
um… yeah…
I‘m glad, if it’s true, that being in the moment, of drumming, and dance on occasion (usually drumming, since Alfred Ladzekpo retired) (he was a teacher of African (from Ghana) Music and Dance, at CalArts for 41 years, for those of you not in-the-know.)
yeah, I‘m glad, if it’s true, that being in the moment, of drumming, and dance on occasion (usually drumming, since Alfred Ladzekpo retired) is SO “IT.” it’s never about being admired, or being payed a lot, even anything, or about being FAMOUS or adored by millions (yeah, millions of nobody’s who have nothing vested in me, and who don’t understand my art.)
no, no.
it’s about momentary interaction, coming together with a few people, drummers, dancers, perhaps singers or other things too….
or simply listening to music.
now, here, music you love so much you couldn’t care less about anything else, and could die at the end of the night, or song.
I’m sorry, but all lifeforms will die, and it can’t be about living forever (though maybe that changes?:)
it can’t be about passing on legacies, or one’s children. they shall have to fend for themselves, and that is simply the way of things.
attachment, don’t do too much of it.
just be here now, ok?
and if you don’t LOVE the performance to the endth degree of ecstasy, my friends, then I really cannot advise you other than keep seeking, for all I know is what I’ve said.
a lotta people are really too serious and no fun.
some other people are really whimsical and ALOTTAVAGINA, I mean fun, a lotta fun, (hey is there a difference?) (of course there is, I have plenty of one, none of the other)
sometimes I wonder what if anything I’m missing by just being me.
2 hours last night, and one tonight, I remembered 36 (African) rhythms, with dozens more to go.
(I learned them gradually over “many” years, and at one point, wrote some of them down in rudimentary ways. months ago, I accidentally deleted all the notation (and every other microsoft file I had for the last 11 years.)
good thing I had already long since memorized all of them:)
only have about 50 more to go. learning things in such a way that you remember them for years is good-feeling.
Thought of the Day, 10 16 2015
normal people often leave me wanting more excitement.
creative weirdos who DON’T just do a little of it on top of their otherwise conventional life…, yeah. I’m judging, I know. I know.
I just love… people so into one thing, or many, that they don’t really bother with all that average social niceties stuff.
who’s got time for it, or the interest, when there are for more compelling things to learn and do.
like insane music, and togetherness of jams, and Cs F#s 5s 7s jam.
it isn’t about being visible and noticed by other people, the mob. first it’s about BEING.