Talking out the Post

Friday, December the Seventeenth

12.17.10





I've told a few people that I started writing a blog but have not really given anyone the name of it or web address to it. My friend H.C. and I talk online quite a bit and when she asks what I am doing and I tell her blogging she asks me what it is about. As soon as I posted the King Crimson/Death of Listening post she had asked me how the blog was coming and I told her I had just posted. She asked what it was about and my explanation seemed to make more sense than the post actually did... maybe... perhaps I need to reread the post, and stop my ramblings about nothing.

It started about how because of new musical 

downloading technology we don't listen to 

music the same way we used to and it ended 

with me saying that i can't hold the attention 

of a song for more than 30 seconds.

 That is how I had originally described it to her but then realized that I was wrong. H.C. says that music is the only thing that she can pay attention to longer than 30 seconds, which may very well be an exaggeration from both of us, but makes the point that it is not because of the way we download that ruined our listening. It is we that has transmogrified how ourselves take in information. In other words, I am not you, you are not her, she is not him, and he is not me. 

I feel like I need some sort of visual and/or physical stimuli along with auditory triggers. The only time I feel I can really focus on the music is when I am doing an activity that keeps me busy but is somewhat dull, like cleaning or running.

I am going to clean up around the house while playing King Crimson now and see how that goes.

next on...    a christmas post perhaps