B. Am running late. Will not be the my first no-sleep night at the rodeo. SO just this, since the topic is "the relation between music and emotion." Apparently this song ain't known in Utah. I grew up with it in very rural NE Arizona. In this mangled but 100 sincere rendition by old codgers. The Kantian Sublime--the praxis of it. Not just the theory. I give you: youtu.be e/sVSCiNPSLxA?si=AkQTeVZK2MjKvgcz God forbid I get classified into the group that comes to you with a belated little toy fan in 113° AZ heat. Mark.
PS. Btw. Do you know Buñuel's "Un chien andalou?" (An Andalusian Dog. Backdrop is the Spanish Civil War. No picnic! ua-cam.com/video/W8yKT7H_KJ0/v-deo.htmlsi=DMBvnAcbn4uC6jkU
Braden. You are not the only one. There was once upon a time a boy named Jacob in a book you once quoted. He was similarly not blessed with "the" intimidating male stature. And yet. And yet he got a MAJOR voice in that book. ...a whole, long stretch of words that the less-informed mocked as "chloroform in print" and then dismissed as plagiarized ("lifted") lock, stock and barrel. Am NOT one of those who suddenly came out of the woodwork to offer empathy ex post facto. NOT. So dump the VERY solipsistic idea that nobody but you---that you are the only guy who has gone thru this his whole damn life. We are legion. I have two pieces of music that percolate to the top for ya. Je te confie (close to Spanish) these little, but big creations. They will follow in a common comment within this posting. Know what? What is happening is a thing that gets one of those theological terms that is is opaque even to the theologians--but then much less to the common man. "Pietism" Especially "Lutheran Pietism." Why? *Luther caused it by doing us the greatest technological feat of all time. Accelerated printing of books and docs via movable type. **Luther got a bit concerned RE: the authority of the church as an institution. Too bad but not too bad. Luther let the djinn out of the bag: one can and should read that "chaotic" book, which makes makes Postmodern narrative look like pablum, for one's self. Draw conclusions on one's own in the middle of the night by candlelight. Luther painted himself into a corner and he knew it. And he had the German grit to just "let it be" and not be the pious hypocrite Jean Calvin. This overly ambitious French lawyer has America by the balls. But I digress. ***J.S. Bach was a Lutheran Pietist at heart. Somehow, his annotated-in-the-margins Bible has survived. It got this tiny bit of attn once...then: the deepfreeze. In it we find Bach's quest to create Christian Music worthy of its Founder. (Only a hint, the foregoing. Any justice to the topic entails 25+ shelf meters scattered in some university library. [An aside: "Shiny Happy People Holding Hands" by REM. The smiley monster archetype if ever there was one.] Okay. Just one "musikalischer Gruss" (a big thing in Germany---"musical greeting") for ya. By a Brit and his brother Billy. This Brit guy (colleague) makes me do a triple take every time. YOU! But with the a really pleasant Queen's English peppered by London East End working class in his "th" midword. (Weather = wheh-Vah). Wait till brother Billy at the end. I cried. I did. But just for a sec. Hmm it's nearly 1am and am starving. Have wanted to go food shopping all day. Was not in the cards. Winco 24/7 to the rescue. Which one tho? We got 2 up here. "Head south young man" it shall be. A 24/7 Del Taco on the way. Yumm. Such low standards when ya starving! You! Embrace the fate of your onomastic (a thing; no makee up) burden of your surname. And fk it: Be Well. Okay? A tout à l'heure. The distant grandpa of "toodles." On the stack Bibles I swear. In modern French same spelling. Colloquially "T'a l'heure." "Tahll her" ran togther but drop "h" add gutteral French "r". And voilà: Musique. See ya... or Later!
Coniferous trees
This is probably my favorite video of yours I’ve seen thus far. The part where you describe each song as its own emotion really struck a cord with me.
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B. Am running late. Will not be the my first no-sleep night at the rodeo.
SO just this, since the topic is "the relation between music and emotion."
Apparently this song ain't known in Utah. I grew up with it in very rural NE Arizona. In this mangled but 100 sincere rendition by old codgers. The Kantian Sublime--the praxis of it. Not just the theory.
I give you:
youtu.be
e/sVSCiNPSLxA?si=AkQTeVZK2MjKvgcz
God forbid I get classified into the group that comes to you with a belated little toy fan in 113° AZ heat.
Mark.
PS. Btw.
Do you know Buñuel's "Un chien andalou?" (An Andalusian Dog. Backdrop is the Spanish Civil War. No picnic!
ua-cam.com/video/W8yKT7H_KJ0/v-deo.htmlsi=DMBvnAcbn4uC6jkU
Braden. You are not the only one. There was once upon a time a boy named Jacob in a book you once quoted. He was similarly not blessed with "the" intimidating male stature. And yet. And yet he got a MAJOR voice in that book. ...a whole, long stretch of words that the less-informed mocked as "chloroform in print" and then dismissed as plagiarized ("lifted") lock, stock and barrel.
Am NOT one of those who suddenly came out of the woodwork to offer empathy ex post facto. NOT. So dump the VERY solipsistic idea that nobody but you---that you are the only guy who has gone thru this his whole damn life.
We are legion.
I have two pieces of music that percolate to the top for ya. Je te confie (close to Spanish) these little, but big creations.
They will follow in a common comment within this posting.
Know what?
What is happening is a thing that gets one of those theological terms that is is opaque even to the theologians--but then much less to the common man.
"Pietism"
Especially "Lutheran Pietism." Why?
*Luther caused it by doing us the greatest technological feat of all time. Accelerated printing of books and docs via movable type.
**Luther got a bit concerned RE: the authority of the church as an institution. Too bad but not too bad. Luther let the djinn out of the bag: one can and should read that "chaotic" book, which makes makes Postmodern narrative look like pablum, for one's self. Draw conclusions on one's own in the middle of the night by candlelight. Luther painted himself into a corner and he knew it. And he had the German grit to just "let it be" and not be the pious hypocrite Jean Calvin. This overly ambitious French lawyer has America by the balls. But I digress.
***J.S. Bach was a Lutheran Pietist at heart. Somehow, his annotated-in-the-margins Bible has survived. It got this tiny bit of attn once...then: the deepfreeze. In it we find Bach's quest to create Christian Music worthy of its Founder. (Only a hint, the foregoing. Any justice to the topic entails 25+ shelf meters scattered in some university library.
[An aside: "Shiny Happy People Holding Hands" by REM. The smiley monster archetype if ever there was one.]
Okay. Just one "musikalischer Gruss" (a big thing in Germany---"musical greeting") for ya. By a Brit and his brother Billy. This Brit guy (colleague) makes me do a triple take every time. YOU! But with the a really pleasant Queen's English peppered by London East End working class in his "th" midword. (Weather = wheh-Vah). Wait till brother Billy at the end. I cried. I did. But just for a sec.
Hmm it's nearly 1am and am starving. Have wanted to go food shopping all day. Was not in the cards. Winco 24/7 to the rescue. Which one tho? We got 2 up here. "Head south young man" it shall be. A 24/7 Del Taco on the way. Yumm. Such low standards when ya starving!
You! Embrace the fate of your onomastic (a thing; no makee up) burden of your surname. And fk it: Be Well. Okay?
A tout à l'heure. The distant grandpa of "toodles." On the stack Bibles I swear. In modern French same spelling. Colloquially "T'a l'heure." "Tahll her" ran togther but drop "h" add gutteral French "r". And voilà: Musique.
See ya... or
Later!