... good music is designed to expand our consciousness, and such an activity demands of us not so much a state of relaxation as a definite attitude of creative tension.

--- p124.

Plato and the sages of old believed that in order to be of value, art should contain and display the three sisters of Beauty, Truth and Goodness.

--- p127.

‎... music ( Read more... )

The reason why music is much more difficult to write about than any other art is because it is the one absolutely disembodied art when it is heard, and no more than a proposition of Euclid when it is written.--- Arthur Symons, quoted in James, p182 ( Read more... )

Anything that is able to move itself is immortal --- for whereas anything that is not self-moving must rely upon an outside agency for life, a self-mover never ceases to move. If a self-moving entity (such as man) had a beginning, that would be tantamount to saying it had to rely upon an outside force for motion, to propel it into being, which is ( Read more... )

It is thought that much of the present land on our planet had its origins in various super-continents. The last super-continent was called ‘Pangaea’ and it split into two continents called ‘Laurasia’ and ‘Gondwana’. Laurasia was composed of much of what we now call Europe and North America, while Gondwana comprised many of the so-called ‘southern ( Read more... )

Okay, Deepchild is kinda awesome.

Also, I need to hunt down some Mahmood Khan.

Come on, interwebz, yield up your numminess to me.

And Red Eye, you're a fucking cocktease to wave the new Blackeyed Susans box set at me, you bitch. Argh, my EYES!

Also, Black Lung, the Silent Weapons For Quiet Wars album ( Read more... )

I've been running late all day and it still feels like I've wasted the whole day. I had set the alarm for eight. Woke up at five to noon. Said to myself "okay, you're going to put music on the iPod and be out of the studio in half an hour." Three hours later, I was still on the laptop, downloading music. Gah. I hate that about me! This is why I ( Read more... )

a) Dude, Gary Cooper's beautiful ... aside from the ears. I always thought I knew what he looked like and what his acting was like but no, I knew nothing of the sort! The sensitivity and sensuality of his face, omg. I mean, watch this, 2.20 to 3.20. A whole minute, dear god! ( ... verrah briefly! )

I should have gone back to USyd today to continue the research reading but I woke with that irresistible restlessness of wanting to write. And you know what, fuck it all, I did. ( ... just can't help wondering ... )

Ahhhhh that's better.

( ... nattering about technical and aesthetical things ... )

So yay Muse confirmed for Big Day Out next year which means sideshow W00t ( Read more... )