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offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2002-11-01 20:36 [#00424554]
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You ever love some music or art or comic book or novel so
much you're grateful the artist was ever born, then you're
glad you're alive and well fed and sheltered enough to
actually have the leisure time to enjoy it? So much that
you're glad matter, energy space and time exist to let you
enjoy it?

I mean, thank goodness subatomic particles coalesced out of
the fires of creation so that I could one day enjoy
Autechre, Dave Kelly, Vernor Vinge, sunsets, kittens and
lollipops.

And horsie!


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2002-11-01 20:49 [#00424561]
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absolutely. although i'm not passionate about art or
literature anymore (and it saddens me to admit this), when
it comes to music there're probably 50 artists or bands who
i just have to thank the creator for blessing us with on
this imperfect earth. that's why whenever i talk to a
musical artist i like i make a point to just say thanks for
making music, and not take my being able to communicate w/
them for granted.


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2002-11-01 20:58 [#00424572]
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Yeah, I was unexcited and dead for the longest time about
music and literature after I tried to overextend myself as a
student/employee/writer/musician/web guy/idiot, but now it
sustains me. This is a Good Thing. It's sad to look back on
yourslef and think, I was so much more alive then.


 

offline afxNUMB from So.Flo on 2002-11-01 21:02 [#00424573]
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Very well said, I agree. It's good to sit back and
appreciate the gift's other people want to share with you,
not only artist but people you know.


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2002-11-01 21:11 [#00424578]
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Oddly enough, sometimes it's art that you appreciate first,
then you have to widen your scope to notice what's in your
room and your neighborhood and your continent.

Sometimes it's easier to cry about the death of a character
in a novel than about a relative or close friend.

I believe the word is katharsis: certain works of art
function as lenses that allow us to focus our emotions and
ideas, which we express through our reactions to the works.

Okay, that's enough earnestness for one night; I'm off to
rape, cook and eat some toddlers.


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2002-11-01 21:28 [#00424592]
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99.99999% of the joy I get out of life derives from music, I
can NOT live without it... anytime I'm deprived of it, I
become an irritable wreck, I gouge peoples' eyes out and
stuff. It's actually a problem, because all I ever want to
do is music related, I've got no incentive to do anything
else.



 

offline Clic on 2002-11-01 21:36 [#00424596]
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I feel this way too.


 


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