Microwaving A Tragedy (extended freestyle mix)

[koganbot]

Last month I linked the "radio edit" of my decade's end piece, the version that was printed in the Las Vegas Weekly. Here under the cut is the "extended freestyle mix" (a.k.a. director's cut), a full one thousand words longer - that's 60 percent more, for the same price! To put it in brief, I'm suggesting that the musical story of the Web is words,

Comments

[koganbot]

Links to my old Las Vegas Weekly column are here, if you're interested.

[petronia]

This version makes much more sense to me (to be ttly honest the first one didn't ^^;), in that it's more clearly a story of the conversation about the music, on top of the story about the music, and that these two stories are different things/progressions although they overlap at points (lyrics, isolation romantic or otherwise) like sine curves. ...If I have understood that wrong then it needs to be longer still, clearly. XDD

[koganbot]

You have understood correctly. In effect what I wrote was a prose poem rather than an argument or a thesis, though it's a poem that contains arguments and theses. Of course, there's nothing mutually exclusive about poems and theses, but I would say that I didn't have the space to develop or support my theses (and strangely enough, I'd say that "romanticism," which is generally my strong point, comes through least effectively). Also, Chris and Rihanna act as a major metaphor for the abuse and isolation that can cripple our word world.