Yeah, I think I actually agree somewhat. I’ll listen to almost anything and don’t care who’s playing it. But to be an artist I love, like a top 10 or 20 artist, you can’t be an idiot or psycho. Eminem will never top Kurt Cobain, by definition.
Eh, moderate disagree there, although I’m not fronting like I have a settled theory. Maybe I suck at music (quite possible), but while it takes a great talent to be the first to discover how to play like Jimi, you can get a 12 year old to play like Jimi. No 12 year old is writing Lolita, no seasoned novelist is writing Lolita.
Also, fuck Heidegger, what the Germans did for math and engineering they did the reverse for philosophy, after Kant anyway (with a few exceptions, e.g. Carnap and some other Vienna Circle folks), though of course, still not as insufferable as the French.
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I could write a lot, but to me the key is taking a step beyond musically or lyrically or both and having the result still “work”. There’s a book in that sentence but it’s a reasonable point of departure.
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oh man
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What works can be very mysterious. How many people are genuine Opera buffs, while how many novices had their hand held through the descriptive and emotive performance in Philadelphia, wherein Tom Hanks is sharing that Aria that means everything to him?
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There’s a reason I never delved into aesthetics in 8 years of studing philosophy. Even the most basic questions make the trolley problem look trivial.
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He’s painting with a broad bush, but he’s more right than wrong. If ever an issue comes up where someone suggests consulting Hegel, there are difficulties ahead.
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doing the sex and stuff
That can be a good oh man but probably not a good oh man but in any case there’s a reason why the heart throb douche in Reality Bites is reading Being and Time and not The Critique of Pure Reason. Don’t get me wrong, it would still be pretentious as fuck to read The Critique of Pure Reason in public, but at least you’d get something out of it. My worst offense was reading Moby Dick in the teacher’s lounge during a brief stint as a substitute something.
Actually to be fair, Ben Stiller directed it, so it was very likely a shallow choice based on trendiness and not based on some deeper engagement with the text.
A couple of months ago I learned that you can basically take over TouchTunes juke boxes in a bar with $20 and the app. I feel like a terrorist subjecting the general public to remain in light and neutral milk hotel and animal collective, but I also feel like I’m exploiting a loophole and educating the masses. I’ll use discretion, but the local bar is about to endure about 2 of sophisticated rock music interspersed with some county and rap from the general public. Hope the kids like Radiohead’s National Anthem.
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Tangentially, one of the reasons I like react videos, is because you get to see a stranger experience a piece of music that you appreciate. Cannot fake the funk there.
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Pausing the song every 15-20 seconds drives me nuts!
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Reaction vids to good music is porn.
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link some of those 3 bands u subjected the bar to
some of their songs that u like
I saw lots of new posts and thought we had a reveal going.
LOL me.
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I have somewhat more cynical view of react videos. They are mostly clickbait, and exploitative clickbait to boot. Like, I’d love to believe that some homies from South Central are digging Hangar 18 atm, but yeesh, you like that for real or is it just for show? I need to know, I can’t abide people fake liking some of the best guitar work of the early 90s.
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no interruption 
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“Don’t let my Black pride be confused with White hate.” - Ice T
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“Play like Jimi” is the crucial part. You’re right, no 12 year old is writing Lolita, no seasoned novelist is writing Lolita, but can they “write like Nabokov”?
My answer would be, I dunno, what does “write like Nabokov” mean exactly?