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Current Musical Obsessions
This is a group called Fleet Foxes who performed in San Francisco at Bottom of the Hill during the Noise Pop Music Festival, singing White Winter Hymnal. I’ve posted for you the recorded version, which is really clean, and a live version, which is a bit sloppier [...]
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Tags: folk, Music, pop
This video by The Black Keys for their song “Just Got To Be” really intrigued me in relation to my theory about the cathartic interplay between musicians and their audiences. I’ll start this by putting the lyrics in print:
When it comes to pride/And other sinful matters/You’re gonna be misled/Left there in [...]
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Tags: blues, Music, philosophy
The longer we live the larger we grow spatially, which is to say the more we displace the atmosphere in which we move; each experience adds to our girth and either focuses or splinters our vision. Of course, we naturally affect and effect our surroundings, and those surroundings reciprocally alter us in different fashions, but [...]
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Tags: culture, language, Music, philosophy
We—you, me, and everyone else—are bifurcated subjects: the subject that speaks and the subject that is spoken of, which creates a largely unknowable breach in the Self that we are all constantly attempting to define, whether we are conscious of that search or not; this breach is the unconscious, the gray fuzzy center of what [...]
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Tags: culture, language, Music, philosophy
In an attempt to reconfigure the atmosphere in which we live, I am musically mapping the San Francisco urban landscape, which is to say I am attempting to detail the way in which this city emotes and the interchange that occurs between its infrastructure, the buildings and other steel, concrete and brick structures that create [...]
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Tags: culture, language, map, Music
