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Post by Alison on Jul 4, 2012 18:41:27 GMT -5
Hi all -- I've been reading faithfully but have had little to add. I just want to let you guys know that I appreciate all of you. I can't believe how happy a concert has made me. Pure joy! I don't think the entertainment industry is dissolving - evolving, going through seriously bumpy adaptation - yes, certainly. We tend to forget that as with every major historical shift there are losses even with most positive advances. The beginning of something new is inevitably the ending of something else. I think it's always tempting to view the past in a bit of a golden light - letting the less pleasant aspects fade. Mika, I agree with this perspective--reminds me of this Douglas Adams quote: "Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things." |
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Post by mika on Jul 4, 2012 18:52:45 GMT -5
I know Wal already posted on news thread but wanted to say how pleased I was with the Salon article (and I even agree about New Girl?!). Salon was one of my first real internet places so I was especially pleased for some reason. 2012 Mid Year Mustswww.salon.com/2012/07/04/2012s_best_so_far_4/singleton/Adam Lambert is one of the few pop stars with the chops to craft cohesive albums, not just indelible singles. I'm taking time out from the Twilight Zone marathon to watch 1776 - an annual tradition. I'm humming as I do 'The Lees of Old Virginia' but now John is going to sing 'Is Anybody There?' Yay! ( Linda - You are sweet. (And weirdly enough I think 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' is on next which is also a Curtiz film (Casablanca's dir)) It's interesting that certain directors (or other artists) can be forgotten or if not their work can appear dated and not terribly watchable, but still have an enormous impact on the next generations. The French New Wave directors - like Truffaut and Godard - aren't much viewed these days (understandably) but they were such passionate young Turks. The Madison Scene from Godard's Bande a Part is hard to find on YT w/out some ridiculous song pasted over it - but it's gorgeous - virtually one long shot and Franz is the coolest guy ever. This little dance scene influenced an amazing number of future filmakers. OT - I just like sending out random love this postcards. www.myspace.com/video/jean-luc-godard/bande-part-the-madison/5834639 ETA: Hey Alison! I love Douglas Adams - his brain was delightful, strange, and yet so compassionate towards his fellow human. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2012 10:20:47 GMT -5
Interesting article on social media concept known as "Fear of Missing Out": www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/digitalsavant/entries/2012/06/28/suffering_from.html"FOMO" is described as, "the uneasy and sometimes all-consuming feeling that you’re missing out—that your peers are doing, in the know about or in possession of more or something better than you. While we’ve always had a fear of missing out, today it’s exploding with the onset of real-time, location-based and social media tools. We’re exposed more than ever before to what others are doing, and we’re filled with a gnawing uncertainty about whether we’ve made the right choice—not just in a given moment but in stages of our lives as well." I have a feeling FOMO is going to be rampant next week for those of us not going to Hammersmith.  |
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Post by mika on Jul 5, 2012 21:18:59 GMT -5
I know this was on the news thread but it's very moon-y and I'm alone feeding the koi so... Honorary Lambertonian of the day: Gavin DeGraw  "Gavin [said] that Adam's initial tweet to him was a thrill. 'When I read that, I was like, 'Hey man, how cool are you, to actually reach out and give me a high five like that via Twitter?' I thought it was just really big of him, you know, and it's really great when artists take that first step forward and share some compliments like that. It really means a lot.'" (Awww, they could wear beanies together and collab - or just share hot beverages.) Sep topic - (more random acts of poetry) I try to not mention the Romantics (poets not band) because they're way too gooey for most people. (And really not something you should fling at teenagers along with (urgh) Silas Marner.) However, for some reason this has been stuck in my head for the last couple of days: "Hail to thee, blithe spirit..." (Shelley- To a Skylark) Which is a little odd as I'm really more a Byron/Keats nerdnik, but then I finally pulled it and realized there were perhaps reasons the poem wanted to elbow its way past the modern poets and be heard after all of my Adam viewing and reviewing in recent days. (the brain is strange and wondrous thing~): full text www.bartleby.com/101/608.htmlTeach me half the gladness
That thy brain must know;
Such harmonious madness
From my lips would flow,
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Post by mika on Jul 5, 2012 22:59:42 GMT -5
I am spamming while packing for tomorrow - going to head for N. Eur and work my way down, imposing on kindness of near strangers as I go. NOTE: If anyone wants something like UK cds or merch - let me know. No promises on the merch if it's a madhouse tho:) but I would try. ~~~ Random thought: Just me, and I know it's not Adam's kind of thing, but I hope if he is hanging around Wroclaw, he visits the couple of remainiing historical Jewish community sites. (WWII photos of the collection/deportation of Jewish community from Breslau make my chest tighten.) Another way in which Adam is the 'physical manifestation of a conspiracy of love' -- our lucky SoCal 21st century boy. ~~~ On a lighter note about gardens. If you haven't been to Longwood Gardens in PA and you are in the area - you should check it out. It's wonderful.  |
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Post by mirages on Jul 6, 2012 0:52:59 GMT -5
Oh my. Such words and images on this page ... probably my two favorite pictures of Adam, and quotes from Neitzsche and from Shelley -- thanks for that link, mika, it's very apt, the whole poem. Adam's all through it, even the flaming head-dress at one point, I think, and this:
And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
I've had the Romantic period on the brain recently, reading, "The Age of Wonder," in which men of the Romantic period "discover the beauty and terror of science" -- the author focuses on the British botanist Joseph Banks and his revelatory excursion to Tahiti with Captain Cook (somewhat akin to Adam's journey to the underground of Berlin while in the cast of Hair -- but with more coconuts), and William Herschel's astonishing amateur adventures in astronomy. He was a moon-lover, too. And Coleridge's last lines before a knock on the door woke him from his reverie kept coming back to me while watching the joy, the rapture on the stage and in the air in Kiev and Moscow:
Weave a circle round him thrice
And close your eyes in holy dread
For he on honeydew hath fed
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Safe travels, mika! And thank you for the helpful distinction between Adam as inspiration and Adam as object -- excellent.
juniemoon, I keep meaning to tell you that your post several pages back about fandom is still roiling around in my head ... I've never been a "fan" before, of anyone save dead authors, and they don't tweet much. I think you're right that the internet has created a species of fandom never seen before, and when you combine the ease, speed and proliferation of communication, the temptation it provides to distract us from our real lives, and the anonymity it offers while still appearing to offer "community" too -- it's really, reallly interesting in all sorts of directions. But that's as far as I've gotten with my thinking, which is why I've been hesitating to post about it -- hope to have something more to add in time.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2012 10:03:54 GMT -5
What can I say? Love all the recent posts.
Can't stop thinking about Adam and Queen. It all seems so guerrilla-esque, somehow, if playing before thousands of people can be considered that. I find I have lost interest, at least for now, in concerns like radio or polls, etc.
It seems that Adam and the Queen guys share a kind of open lens, a way in which they see possibilities in the moment and a willingness to look for unexpected answers.
Congrats to all who are going and all who watch at home and speaking of poetry how about some Cohen. Love everything that Adam is doing and I have faith in what he will be a part of when he comes home, too.
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Post by mszue on Jul 6, 2012 11:15:31 GMT -5
My goodness juniemoon...I pop in for 2 minutes and you are posting one of my favourite Cohen songs.
From the wells of disappointment
where the women kneel to pray
seriously....that man is genius
back to the fray.....
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Post by lynne on Jul 7, 2012 1:57:04 GMT -5
Just popping in to say "hi." I am reading and enjoying your thoughts and ideas. With summer break in full swing, my brain seems to be taking a vacation of sorts, so I am enjoying some vicarious thinking through you.
Hope all of you going to London take away everything you hope for. I can't wait to hear your thoughts about your experiences. Enjoy!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2012 13:29:07 GMT -5
Map is beautiful, and more Queen amazing-ness is about to happen.
This month's National Geographic has a great story about lost or endangered languages. The Tuva language in Central Asia has a great word to describe their throat singers, "khei at."
This word conveys the powerful spiritual depths that a singer draws upon to produce his sounds. Literally it means "air horse."
One of the other languages described is Seri, in Mexico. These people believe that everyone has a flower inside them, and in every flower is a word.
I love these ideas about conveying spiritual power and beauty within in a way we don't do so well with in English.
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