ha...I think I've mentioned John Cage's 4:33' here before too...nice for 'silence'...but I have an hour or two of that in meditation each day.
On Mar 21, 2:10 pm, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm with you on the prissy part Arch. Our American culture is full of > dudes with earrings and eyeliner getting manicures and exfoliating > themselves. It's all a little nauseating. I can't even make fun of > them either because they'll use their gym-toned bodies and Ti Chi to > kick my chubby butt if I piss them off. Plus they get all the chicks. > > Silence is golden but here in the big city you just can't ever get it. > It makes it that much more special when you can get away and soak up > some nature. I agree the Ipod stays at home on camping trips. > > You'll be happy to hear I modified some ear muffs I use at work to use > as head phones. Not doing my hearing a favor but at least I don't > bother anyone. I do occasionally get pencils or note pads thrown in > my general direction, however. Barbaric ingrates. > > dj > > > > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 5:59 AM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What you 'musak farties' can never understand is that there is no > > message in any of the dross that can beat the sound of silence or a > > few bits of birdsong. You will inflict your fetish on innocent > > travellers, some of you stuck so far up the unsunlit passage of > > narcissism that you irritate a whole coach on the train whilst > > blasting what is left of your mind behind headphones that don't work > > to protect us from your illness. That musak is now so bad is > > illustrated by the need to make it appeal through gormless butt-cheek > > waggling and a prissy avant-garde, as ever the actual rearguard that > > hasn't realised 'cool' is turning to the bitter winter of a forced > > retreat. Music has a place - watch Bill Bailey maybe - but if it was > > any good a few chords would expose all the lies and bring us tumbling > > into happiness and plenty. You guys still think the Pied Piper was a > > good guy and haven't realised the dungeon he led you into for what it > > is and the role of musak in getting you into the mess. Copyright > > reserved - just in case Dem Totally Hosed steal my lyrics! > > > On 21 Mar, 10:25, frantheman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 21 Mrz., 08:50, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > >> . Maybe the new sound to hit the > > >> > airwaves will be a revival of some Bavarian Folk music with a Rock > >> > spin. > > >> Hendrix preserve us! There is actually a good German music scene, has > >> been since the beginning of the eighties. In fact, I think innovation > >> in rock may be more prevalent in other language-culture groups than > >> the English-speaking one. There are all kinds of things happening in > >> Africa, for example. Peter Gabriel's "realworld" project keeps > >> bringing really good stuff to a wider audience. But the English- > >> speaking world is sometimes isolated in its own dominance. > > >> Ever since "die neue deutsche Welle" [New German Wave] (reaching a > >> wider world with Nena's "Nine and ninety red balloons") an indigenous > >> German scene has been thriving, a scene where the artists sing in > >> German - when you think about it, it does seem more sensible to write > >> songs in your own language(!). This has expanded into all sorts of > >> areas, like hip hop (Fanta Vier, Sido, Bushido) and bombastic heavy > >> rock groups like Rammstein, who have a respectable international > >> following:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w9EksAo5hY > > >> Other examples of good popular German rock (come on, gabby, contradict > >> me here, please!) are > > >> Bap, a band from Cologne who sing in the local dialect and thus have > >> to be translated so that other Germans can understand them. I would > >> claim that every German between five and fifty would recognise this > >> song, and most of them could sing along with the > >> chorus:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKkVV3QGJpA > > >> Die Toten Hosen are a punk group who've been around forever. They are > >> also wildly popular in Argentina for some > >> reason:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15apenkfeF8 > > >> Die Ärzte are punks for intellectuals, with lyrics unsurpassed in > >> cynical cleverness. The video isn't bad > >> either:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DJ0Inxfmyk&feature=related > > >> Wir Sind Helden are one of the younger groups to have become very > >> popular in the past few years (they were one of the acts at the Live 8 > >> Berlin concert):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr0FBBKT65s&feature=related > > >> (Yeah, I know I've left out Grönemeyer and Westernhagen and Die Böhze > >> Onkels and Silbermond and Rosenstolz, etc., etc., etc. But I also left > >> out Pur. 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