How do you do music criticism without going insane?

Zappa, I think

that would make sense who could possibly have a big enough brain to understand zappa's complex 5/4 polyrhythmic varese-influenced doo wop dick jokes?

who said that dancing abt architecture line

- Bob Marley

http://inspirationalquotes.gallery/wp-content/uploads/Talking-about-art-is-like-dancing-about-architecture.png
RIP

well, this is actually pretty fucking fascinating!

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/11/08/writing-about-music/

so...Martin Mull! but it was sort of floating around in different forms since the early 1900s

would be more accurate if changed to "jumping off architecture"

my preferred form is "writing about music is like bombing about architecture"

i know a lot of architects - i'd say writing about music is not that dissimilar to architecture, as far as bitterness, lack of remuneration, and fury at the incompetence of the successful goes.

maybe life is like architecture.

i used to love writing about music and then i hit a point where i felt i had nothing interesting enough to say in the review/essay format about music any more (and i've since grown skeptical that 99% of other ppl have plumbed + exhausted the same wells) and then doing it just became tedious and rote. there are only so many adjectives, so many contexts. i did some ethnomusicology at that point which was better because then i could write about communities and do more intensive research and then sometimes transmute academic research into more publishable reviews. even then tho... there was something staid about the entire enterprise + i found it unsatisfying. when i found myself writing about emo + teenpop albums in the context of radical 19th century politics i realized that the jig was really up and i was just wasting my own time (and probably everyone else's). now i feel like the only music crit that interests me is "X is good," or "X isn't great," or "I didn't like X," bc at least these mundane value judgements are honest and useful if you can identify whose opinions are close enough to yours that their approbation means something is worth checking out. :/

who said that dancing abt architecture line? that is so annoying ppl always quote that like it's some big truth bomb no one's ever heard before

― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 19:58 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol I was about 20 hours into a party on NYD and this dude with big shirt collars and bad facial hair kept quoting it at me to the point where I had to tell him that it's the actual most hacky thing you can say abt music writing

maybe life is like architecture.

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda)

nah, life is like a beanstalk, innit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af-x67MHl2U

life in an elevator
livin it up while i'm goin down

Terrible service in this place:

http://www.impawards.com/1992/posters/blame_it_on_the_bellboy.jpg

i'm not trapped in here with the music, you're just not twisted enough for this game

https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/jared-leto-joker04.jpg