Weeds of Crass
I've come to the conclusion that I really love opera/techno fusion.
I think that it all started back when the Fifth Element came out and that blue alien chick sang an incredibly beautiful song on stage right before getting shot. What an awesome roll to have in a movie. Also can't seem to get enough of Ladytron lately.
In the preface to Oscar Wilde's, "The Picture of Dorian Gray," there's this list of statements regarding art and artists. The last one: "We can forgive a man that creates something useful, as long as he does not admire it. The artist that creates something useless has done it out of deep admiration. Art is mostly useless."
I had to think about this very deeply before I agreed with it. If one creates something useful, then admiring it is sort of redundant. Need and admiration are quite nearly the same thing, and admiring something you need is not all that profound. However, admiring something that has no real function in the world, our commonplace, is one of the beautiful things that make humans so intriguing. It's the useless parts of existence that are worth living for.
I guess that's why I'm not a vegitarian.
I think that it all started back when the Fifth Element came out and that blue alien chick sang an incredibly beautiful song on stage right before getting shot. What an awesome roll to have in a movie. Also can't seem to get enough of Ladytron lately.
In the preface to Oscar Wilde's, "The Picture of Dorian Gray," there's this list of statements regarding art and artists. The last one: "We can forgive a man that creates something useful, as long as he does not admire it. The artist that creates something useless has done it out of deep admiration. Art is mostly useless."
I had to think about this very deeply before I agreed with it. If one creates something useful, then admiring it is sort of redundant. Need and admiration are quite nearly the same thing, and admiring something you need is not all that profound. However, admiring something that has no real function in the world, our commonplace, is one of the beautiful things that make humans so intriguing. It's the useless parts of existence that are worth living for.
I guess that's why I'm not a vegitarian.