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Invisible wrote:
> For example, apparently everybody thinks GEB is great. Personally, I
> read about 25% of it and then stopped out of sheer boredom.
Me too. Then I matured, and went back and read it again, and it was
absolutely fantastic enough that I read it twice more. GEB are tremendously
*subtle* books, and if you miss the subtlety, you've missed the point.
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Darren New escreveu:
> Invisible wrote:
>> For example, apparently everybody thinks GEB is great. Personally, I
>> read about 25% of it and then stopped out of sheer boredom.
>
> Me too. Then I matured, and went back and read it again, and it was
> absolutely fantastic enough that I read it twice more. GEB are
> tremendously *subtle* books, and if you miss the subtlety, you've missed
> the point.
possibly he'll mature too and start enjoying both GEB and Mozart. ^^;
the only reason people say a symphony is nothing but a bland wall of
sound is because they usually are not able to pay attention to both the
small details going on in the sound texture, individual motifs playing
in parallel in the background and the larger overarching themes going
throughout subjected to continuous change and tension...
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nemesis wrote:
> the only reason people say a symphony is nothing but a bland wall of
> sound is because they usually are not able to pay attention to both the
> small details going on in the sound texture, individual motifs playing
> in parallel in the background and the larger overarching themes going
> throughout subjected to continuous change and tension...
Nothing music does this as well, and manages to be dramatic at the same
time.
Ultimately it comes down to what you like. I reject the idea that just
because somebody says a piece of music is good, I am morally obliged to
like it. I like a piece of music because I enjoy it, not because
somebody tells me to like it. This applies equally to the people who
tell me that I'm required to like Handel and Ravel and to the people who
tell me that I'm required to like R&B and hip-hop.
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Nobody is telling you to like it, just pointing out that the reasons why
you probably don't like it.
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nemesis wrote:
> small details going on in the sound texture, individual motifs playing
> in parallel in the background and the larger overarching themes going
> throughout subjected to continuous change and tension...
And this is exactly what GEB does. :-)
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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but to different destinations.
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Darren New escreveu:
> nemesis wrote:
>> small details going on in the sound texture, individual motifs playing
>> in parallel in the background and the larger overarching themes going
>> throughout subjected to continuous change and tension...
>
> And this is exactly what GEB does. :-)
I might say: almost every deep work of art does that. :)
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nemesis wrote:
> Darren New escreveu:
>> nemesis wrote:
>>> small details going on in the sound texture, individual motifs
>>> playing in parallel in the background and the larger overarching
>>> themes going throughout subjected to continuous change and tension...
>>
>> And this is exactly what GEB does. :-)
>
> I might say: almost every deep work of art does that. :)
True. I was simply being relevant. ;-)
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On 3/29/2010 8:58 AM, Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Here's an interesting fact:
>
> 90% of everything is crap. That said, if you keep only 1%, you're doing
> well.
>
> Ever listen to a classical music radio station? Most of it is boring and
> lame. It's only the good music that lasts 100s' of years.
>
> I'm wondering what the golden age of rap is going to sound like.
>
Actually.. Someone else stated it more like.. 90% of everything is crap,
if you are lucky, 10% of it might survive, of which 50% will still be
crap. In other words, its incorrect to assume that only the good stuff
survives. A lot of total junk does too. Far more than we would hope, in
fact.
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If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
if version = "Vista" {
call slow_by_half();
call DRM_everything();
}
call functional_code();
}
else
call crash_windows();
}
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On 3/29/2010 10:58 AM, Darren New wrote:
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> I'm wondering what the golden age of rap is going to sound like.
>
>>shudder<<
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